On 17 September 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; BUY, TECH, and VIP. …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-16-2014): IKT.com $16,000, kfz24.de 11,500 EUR
I was bidding on a domain at Go Daddy auctions and there was one bidder that was increasing the bid by $10 on my proxy bid every 5 minutes. It is very frustrating because the …
Read More »New Domains, Growing Pains And The .Sexy Bus
Uniregistry has 2 buses going around Los Angeles, California with a .Sexy ad on them: http://areyou.sexy. The ad was a great idea as it will increase New gTLD recognition to all kinds of people on the …
Read More ».Organic Announces 6 Pioneer Brands And Participates At Natural Products Expo in Baltimore
Afilias today announced that six leading organic brands are participating in the .ORGANIC domain pioneer program and plan to launch .ORGANIC sites soon. These brands include: Rodale Institute — Organic pioneers since 1947, the Rodale Institute …
Read More »EURid’s World Report on IDNs: Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Website (.中文网) Lead New gTLDs
The European Registries for Internet Domains (EURid), published their comprehensive World Report on Internationalized Domain Names 2014. The New gTLD chapter features TLD Registry‘s 2 IDN New gTLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-15-2014): Cabs.com $50,000, 1151.com 13,100 EUR, Synta.com $5,100
It’s a mad, mad, mad world. I had another deal gone bad after another buyer disappeared. I had 3 bad deals in a week last month and a few others. So after the deal I …
Read More »Afilias and DotGreen Community Partner To Support The .Green New gTLD
DotGreen Community, Inc. and Afilias announced today their partnership supporting the .green Top Level Domain (TLD). .Green is touted as “the world’s first TLD for the growing green economy, businesses, social and environmental initiatives.” The …
Read More »GoDaddy Releases 2 New TV Commercials (videos)
GoDaddy launched a new 2014 advertising campaign with 2 new television commercials, online and print advertising and social media engagements. The rollout is part of GoDaddy’s overall mission to target small business owners. The new …
Read More »Flippa: 4 New Improvements This Week
After eliminating the minimum $10 commission fee across all domain and website auctions and domain catalog sales last week Flippa continues this week with even more improvements. Flippa has unveiled a few changes and a …
Read More »Minds + Machines Gets 1,700 New Domains Across 6 New gTLDs While .Vegas Gets 3,000
Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 8 New gTLD launches: Afilias’s .Organic entered general availability and has 27 domains after day 1. It only added 1 domain since the day before. But …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-14-2014): Gynecologist.com $27,555, Socius.com $14,249
I sold a couple of domains over the weekend. There is actual business going on over some weekends. And it doesn’t hurt to follow up on inquiries even if you don’t hear back the first …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Review: .Vegas, .Press, .Host, .Website, .Organic, .Country +11 More
This week 17 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Minds + Machines opens up the week with .cooking, .country, .fishing, .horse, .rodeo and .vodka. These 6 extensions …
Read More »For Sale: List Of All 7,123 .Media Domains Sorted By Renewal Price (All Premiums Included)
I am introducing a new service that I am working on for a couple of months now. .Press landrush is ending on Monday the 15th of September at 12pm EST and general availability starts on …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (9-13-2014): Webim.com $4,494, iremit.com $1,716
I am starting to feel sorry for Daniel but he deserves what is coming at him. He reached 500,000 registrations and that has probably cost him a couple of million dollars on top of all …
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