Eric Ludwick from What Box?, the company that has registered hundreds of domain names in the New gTLD sunrises using over 30 fake trademarks, is on the board of directors of the Domain Name Association …
Read More »New gTLD registration stats stuck because zone files are not available
The Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS) that is the system that provides all the New gTLD zone files is down for the past 36 hours. ICANN send an email yesterday informing CZDS users that there …
Read More »Domain company from Austria buys autos.de for 120,000 Euro ($166,367 USD) at Sedo
Sedo announced today the sale of the domain name autos.de for 120,000 Euro or $166,367 USD. The domain was bought by DAY Investments GmbH from Austria. The company owns domains such as charts.com, gutscheine.com, routenplaner.com, …
Read More »Sedo starts displaying banner ads on parked domains and some non-targeted ads appear
I noticed today that Sedo, that is using the Google feed, has started displaying banner ads on the domain names that are parked there. Instead of always getting a list of text ads you now …
Read More »Coming Soon: A New Moniker Experience
I got an email today from Moniker announcing some updates that are coming soon. They promise a transformation with a new website that “better caters to your needs and new tools to manage and grow …
Read More »Minds+Machines: .garden and .yoga secured in private auction; .deals and .property lost
The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions held last week for .deals, .garden, .property and .yoga, the Company has secured the uncontested application rights …
Read More »New .Club domains and Go Daddy TV ad (see the video)
The .club registry released an ad called “Invest in a great Domain Name!”. The ad was released last week and according to The Frager factor it is now being shown on TV. The ad description …
Read More »Call for Public Input: Transition of NTIA’s Stewardship of the IANA Functions
Deadline coming up in a week: “Call for Public Input: Draft Proposal, Based on Initial Community Feedback, of the Principles and Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA‘s Stewardship of the …
Read More »RealEstate.Agency sells for about $4,800 and has a $3,600 annual renewal
The domain name realestate.agency was purchased by someone from Texas on the 3rd day of Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) pricing. The domain was registered at Enom for about $4,800. This price includes a $1,200 …
Read More »Campaign to boycott the .Build New gTLD
General availability for the New gTLD .build starts today and anyone that cares about domaining should stay away. You should not support the same people that steal from domainers. Plan Bee, LLC, the .build registry, …
Read More »GoDaddy now offering localized products and support in 14 new languages
GoDaddy announced that it is now offering localized products and support in 14 new languages. New countries served with this expansion include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, …
Read More »DRS Complaint for Rock.co.uk denied as registrants are not obligated to use their domains
An attempt to grab the domain name Rock.co.uk using a DRS complaint, the equivalent to UDRP for .co.uk domains, was denied as the Complainant failed to prove that it had rights to a mark and …
Read More »What Is A Domain Name Land Rush? (Infographic)
If you’ve been following .CLUB you probably know that they are now in the “Land Rush” period which began on April 1, 2014 and which ends on May 1, 2014. But what is a “Land …
Read More ».Asia Registry Partners with NameJet & RightOfTheDot.com to Auction Premium 3-4 Character Numerics
DotAsia Organisation, registry operator of the ‘.Asia’ top-level-domain, announced that it has partnered with NameJet.com and RightOfTheDot.com to auction a series of never-before-released premium numeric domain names. Through these auctions, approximately 150 three and four …
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