This past week 21 new objections were filed at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center for new gTLD strings. The WIPO center received the objections on March 13, 2013 and these were posted on the …
Read More »28 objections filed at the International Chamber of Commerce for new gTLD strings such as .ARCHITECT and .GAY
28 objections were filed at the International Chamber of Commerce for new gTLD strings. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) received the objections on March 12 and 13, 2013 and these were posted on the ICC …
Read More »NameJet and Afternic will launch the .BUILD New gTLD
NameJet and Afternic have been selected to launch the new top level domain .BUILD. Together they will serve Auctions and Premium Sales of new TLD. Plan Bee LLC, the applicant for the new top level …
Read More »Sedo sells 704 domains worth $1.25 million: eLend.com 140k USD, Hotel.biz 25k USD – Week 25/3-31/3 2013
This week, 704 transactions (782 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.25 million ($1.3 last week). Only 233 domains (246 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …
Read More »Namejet sold 84 domains for $460k in March: SSC.com $50,299, TeeShirts.com $41.800, Strategi.com $15,655
Namejet released it’s auction sales report for March 2013. Only domain names that were sold for over $2,000 are listed, Namejet was unable to provide a list of domains that sold for lower amounts. The …
Read More »Go Daddy Auctions sold 42,660 domains in March – DreamProducts.com for $40k, TheExchange.com for $36k, etc.
Go Daddy sold 42,660 domains in March 2013. That is a lot more than the 34,132 domains that were sold in February (February was 3 days shorter). 53% (54% in February) of the sales were …
Read More »ICANN posts revised New gTLD Registry Agreement for review
ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted “Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement” for the community’s information and review. Clean [PDF, 458 KB] Redline [PDF, 455 KB] Summary of Changes [PDF, 155 KB] …
Read More ».CO registry launches Asian Internationalized Domain Names in April
.CO registry announced the launch of Asian IDNs including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and its …
Read More »Namejet auctions 39 1-2 character .ORG domain names in April – Project 94
Namejet will auction 39 1-2 character .ORG domain names starting April 6 as part of Project 94. In partnership with eNom, NameJet is now offering this exclusive list of Premium .ORG domains for auction. For …
Read More »Sedo latest sales: Schokolade.de 63,000 EUR, NikTheGreek.com 4,500 EUR, Canoe.co.uk 3,800 GBP, etc.
Here are some of the most notable sales at Sedo during the past week. These are sales that were published after the latest Sedo report was released last Tuesday. Please find below the list of …
Read More »Name.com using a Failed Login Warning as extra security
I must say that I don’t use Name.com as my primary registrar but I like it more every day since I have been using it for the past 6 months. Yesterday I tried to login …
Read More »Non-paying bidder for eDoctor.com costs Namejet $24,629
Last week the Namejet auction for the domain name eDoctor.com that had sold for $43,310 was cancelled and a new private auction was started. The domain eDoctor.com was dropped by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. The winning bidder …
Read More »Latest 5 figure sales at Namejet: TeeShirts.com, CasinoBonuses.com, EDoctor.com
Namejet sold 3 domains in the 5 figure range in the past few days: TeeShirts.com, CasinoBonuses.com and EDoctor.com. TeeShirts.com sold for $41,800 at Namejet. The auction had 292 bids from 187 bidders. The domain was sold by …
Read More »Seriously: What is all the fuss with .PW?
I have been reading lately about the rebranding of the .pw ccTLD. The extension .pw is the country code top-level domain for Palau, an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. The question in …
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