DigitalTown won a UDRP complaint for the domain name Gorgonzola.City. The complaint was made by Consorzio per la Tutela del Formaggio Gorgonzola of Novara. That is an organisation that oversees the production and marketing of all …
Read More »Verisign ends 1st quarter of 2017 with 143.6 million .com and .net domain names
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial and domain name registration results for the first quarter of 2017. The final .com and .net renewal rate for the fourth quarter of 2016 was 67.6 percent compared with …
Read More »The domain name Fly.com sold for $2.89 million by Travelzoo
The domain name Fly.com sold for $2.89 million by Travelzoo according to SEC filings. The sale price was for the domain name only and not any other assets. Following the Company’s strategic decision to focus on …
Read More »Potential buyer tweets about domain name squatting
I got an inquiry on a 1-word .com. It is kinda of scifi, science, brandable and dictionary all mixed together word. Before I had a chance to reply to the inquiry, and I know that …
Read More »10 things I examine when deciding what domains to renew and what to drop
These are the 10 things I examine when deciding what domain names to renew and what domain names to drop. I am always reevaluating at renewal time and dropping domain names. This takes time but …
Read More »New gTLD study: a new domain name with enough content and links can compete with .com and .org
The Domain Name Association (The DNA) announced today the results of its commissioned study titled “Hidden Advantages of a Relevant Domain Name” to understand the impact top-level domain name extensions (TLDs) may have on organic …
Read More »Yes, the UDRP is not designed for stolen domain names!
Complainants from China tried to recover 74 domains, that they claim were stolen, using a UDRP complaint and failed. And it is only natural that it failed. UDRP was not designed for recovering stolen domain …
Read More »Minds + Machines reports final results for 2016
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2016. Commenting on the results Toby Hall, CEO of MMX said: “To understand the key market drivers of the …
Read More »Rick Schwartz values his domain name portfolio at over $500 million dollars
Rick Schwartz, aka the “Domain King”, made a tweet describing his domain name portfolio and how he values his 7,000 domain names. “I own 7000 #Domains 750-1000 of them valued over $100k. 150-200 valued over …
Read More »Rust or Bust! WHD Global and the JFK.club (VIDEO)
The .CLUB team was at the WHD.global conference in Rust, Germany. The conference took place in the Europa-Park in March 25-31, 2017. Attendees came from industries spanning hosting and cloud services (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), …
Read More »Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde launches anonymous domain name registration service
Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde launched an anonymous domain name registration service. The new service is called Njalla and is located at njal.la. Njalla is run by a company named 1337 LLC based in Nevis. …
Read More »Beware of domain name auction bids at exactly the reserve price at Namejet
I was going through the Namejet domain name auctions when I spotted the domain name che.biz. I sold this domain at Sedo in March 2015 for 1,180 Euro. So of course I was interested to …
Read More »Minds + Machines gets order for 90,000 domain name registrations
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), reported today orders for approximately 90,000 standard name registrations across certain of its US and European facing top-level domains valued at approximately US$500,000. The company said that these …
Read More »Boston Ivy will drop the premium domain renewal prices in .Broker, .Forex, .Markets, .Trading
Boston Ivy announced that it will be dropping the premium renewal prices to standard for 4 of its New gTLDs: .Broker, .Forex, .Markets and .Trading. The change will take place on May 1st. Going forward …
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