Domain Name News

The domain name liu.com didn’t sell at NameJet. Highest bid was $40,300 but the reserve wasn’t met. The auction had 342 bids from 329 bidders. There were 8 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. Yin.com …

Extension .xxx is approaching its first anniversary on December 6th and it is time to renew your .xxx domain names. Many people like me used backordering and pre-registrations last year. Some may choose to transfer …

“Sedo’s Select 50 Domains” for December were released. Sedo includes the price suggestions set by each seller, so that buyers don’t have to worry about going through long negotiations. My favorite from the list is SanMarino.com …

The domain name yin.com didn’t sell today at NameJet. Highest bid was $71,000 but the reserve wasn’t met. The auction had 404 bids from 368 bidders. There were 10 bidders with a $20k bid or higher. …

About a month back, ICM Registry put up a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. 15 days ago there were 7 domains missing from that list. This week the sale of celebrities.xxx …

The domain name liao.com just sold for $118,888 at NameJet. The auction had 327 bids from 229 bidders. There were 10 bidders with a $61,088 bid or higher and 2 bidders with a 100k bid …

Do we really need an .hiv new gTLD? No, we don’t! Sorry. DotHIV had collected funding of over $470,000 at the time of submitting the new gTLD application. I am sure they have spend and …

This week, 951 transactions (948 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 million ($1.6 last week). Only 264 domains (245 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

I was doing the monthly domain name renewals yesterday. As I was going through my domain names, day after day, I realized that there was not a single day of the month that I didn’t …

The domain AudioPlayer.com sold today at NameJet for $2,050. The domain was not expired. It was auctioned of by the owner, Mrs Jello, LLC. Domainer Igal Lichtman (aka Mrs. Jello) has sold domains at NameJet …

Do you remember the 9 missing .org domains from Project94.org? According to PIR’s Public Relations firm the remaining 9 are country codes and will be allocated accordingly. I got this note after someone from the …

The domain name 1988.com sold for $20,499 at NameJet yesterday. It was one of the busiest auctions I have seen lately with 347 bids and 299 participating bidders. There were 6 bidders with a bid …

The DotWeekly disaster (where the owner lost 7 years of work) got me thinking. I do an onsite backup regularly but that might not be enough. I was searching for an online backup option and …

Complainant filed for a UDRP for the domain gtms.com because Respondent didn’t reply to their interest of purchasing the domain name. The domain was registered 8 years before Complainant registered its “gtms” trademark. Complainant used …