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In the past week 525 (556 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 million ($1.2m last week). Only 144 (163 last week) domains from the 502 were reported by Sedo. The …

I was bidding for the domain ManhattanOffice.com but I stopped pretty low. It went for a lot more than I was expecting. Go Daddy auctions is making A LOT of money. I have listed below …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name VisitRome.com that was sold by Eric Borgos for $16,000. The domain Yabai.com was sold for $11,100 with a $1 Reserve Auction. Post-Auction Negotiation was the …

Go Daddy sold netpets.org for $7,875? Have people lost their minds? How much traffic do they think this will have? The domain was owned by NetPets, Inc. from California that let it expire. Netpets.com is …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has created a tool available at ChineseLandrush.com to help non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in Chinese domains. At ChineseLandrush.com, visitors …

ICANN, through its auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, will facilitate an Auction on 17 September 2014 to resolve string contention sets for three (3) new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings, BUY, TECH, and VIP. …

Business Standard did a piece on Go Daddy’s attempt to enter the Indian domain name market. India is a priority market for GoDaddy and even though India currently has only 3.5 million domain names currently, …

I am tired of saying the same thing over and over again. These constant, not advertised auctions in reseller auction houses with end user reserves will almost never bring the prices you hope for. There …

Tech Crunch did a piece today criticizing Apple for uploading the latest U2 album to all iTunes users. Did Apple hire the same marketing firm that Daniel Negari is using for .XYZ? Is Tim Cook …

While Fiba, the International Basketball Federation, is busy promoting the official and quite long official website of the world cup, www.fiba.com/spain2014, another domain name is dominant in the games: Spain.info. The Basketball World Cup in …

I got an email today from Adam Dicker informing me about a new domain newsletter: DailyDomains.com. The email was addressed to all dnforum.com members. The newsletter was founded by Jacob Fedosky. “They are putting an …

ICANN granted data retention waivers to 5 German registrars and Moniker that is US based but is owned by the European group KeyDrive S.A.: Key-Systems, LLC Key-Systems, GmbH InterNetworX Ltd. & Co. KG http.net Internet …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: .Global and .Yokohama entered general availability on the 9th of September. Both were flops. .Global reached 1,630 registrations and .yokohama had …

A lot of domain name related news are coming out in the past few days. Everybody is back from their vacations and New gTLDs are launching daily. .London did worse than expected by a lot …