Domain Name News

Since I started this blog in July 2012 I made about 225 posts until the end of 2012. These are the most visited posts: “Your Auction Has Ended”: Will GoDaddy give me back my time …

She was born prematurely 1690gr. I hope she is strong to survive the next few days.

Let me tell you a story from the past… It was back in 2003 and Namewinner was running at full speed catching dropping domain names. For those that don’t know what Namewinner was… Namewinner was …

Marchex owned domain PetExpress.com gets a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling as John Berryhill gets this complaint dismissed at NAF. This must be the longest decision I have ever seen for the simple reason that …

The New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) send a letter complaining to ICANN about the numerous delays in the New gTLD program. The letter was sent on the 21st of December and was just published by …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. This week 1 more domain has been sold: Dolls.xxx for $7,425. Doll.xxx is still available for sale at $5,940. …

Go Daddy Auctions and Sedo integration seems to be having a few problems today. I got an offer today on one of the few domains I have left at Sedo through Go Daddy auctions. I …

Go Daddy sold 32,767 domains in December. That is almost on par with November’s 32,850 domains. 55% of the sales were from auctions, 43% of the sales were from Buy Now listings and 2% were …

This week, 932 transactions (945 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.38 million ($1.48 last week). Only 330 domains (183 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

A few days back Namejet started a private auction for the domain name pack.org because the winning bidder didn’t pay for the domain. The Private Auction ended at $1,018 that means that Namejet lost $1,094 …

PIR, the .org domain name registry, have announced a price increase in .org effective July 1st 2013. Registrar price for .org will increase from $7.45 to $8.19. If you add the $0.25 ICANN fee the .org …

My last experience with Namejet support was smooth and most importantly pretty fast considering the timing of my support ticket. I contacted support a few hours before 2013 and I got a reply almost immediately …

Target had it’s UDRP complaint denied for the domain name TargetApplication.com. Panel said that a website with advertising links, can be a legitimate use, and that the presence of pay-per-click links on its site does …

If you need some inspiration to start off this year you need to watch this. Olympiacos Piraeus from Greece came back from 19 points behind, with 12 minutes to go, to win 62-61 the 2012 …