Frank Schilling made a couple of comments in the past couple of weeks that I think are worth reading if you missed them. The first one was on my post “How To Use: Uniregistry Affiliate …
Read More »Jeff Sass of .Club domains, Keynote Video at DomainFest 2014
Jeff Sass, CMO of .Club domains, explains how the new gTLD’s will change the brand marketing landscape and create opportunities for domain investors at DomainFest 2014 held at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in L.A on …
Read More »Rook Media Acquires Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor Monetization Business
Oversee.net, an innovative technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of websites and mobile apps in travel, retail and consumer finance, today announced that Rook Media, Europe’s largest domain monetization platform, has acquired its …
Read More »ICANN Appoints Fifth New gTLD Data Escrow Agent
Escrow4All B.V. has been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD Registry Operators. All new gTLD Registry Operators are required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registration data …
Read More »ICANN sends notice of breach to Namevault.com
Please be advised that as of 9 April 2014, Homestead Limited dba Namevault.com (“Namevault”) is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) dated 8 August 2013 (“RAA”). Namevault.com was also sent a notice of breach last year. These breaches result from:
Read More »24 more New gTLDs were delegated: .college, .engineering, .media, .university, .gop, .yokohama
ICANN announced that 24 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 225 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the 24 new gTLDs: .college, .engineering, .media, .university, .gop and …
Read More »Thank you all for the 200,000 page views on OnlineDomain.com
My blog reached a milestone with 200,000 page views during the weekend. Nearly 85,000 page views have been served in the past 5 months. I started the OnlineDomain.com blog in July 2012 and then stopped …
Read More »Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: ngsn.com $20k, flavour.ca $17,650 (4-6-14 to 4-12-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-6-14 to 4-12-14 were $2.065.279. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …
Read More »Election.com sells for $65,100 at a Namejet auction
The domain name Election.com was sold for $65,100 in a public auction at Namejet. There were 323 bidders in the auction. There was no reserve. Estibot.com valued the domain at $142,000. The domain was registered …
Read More »How can I research a domain that I may want to purchase?
Google’s Matt Cutts was asked a question at Google Webmasters about buying a domain name: Question: How can we check to see if a domain (bought from a registrar) was previously in trouble with Google? …
Read More »Would you like some weed (.farm)?
I was only after 3 domain names from Donuts 3 new gTLD strings this week that were .farm, .codes and .viajes. I got one and I am happy with that. Judging from the zone files …
Read More »Sedo sells 620 domains worth $1.3 million: gab.com $200k, mobile.com.co $15k (Apr 6 to Apr 12)
In the past week (Apr 6 to Apr 12), 620 (660 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 million ($1.3m last week). Only 209 (248 last week) domains from …
Read More »Namejet sells 74 domains for $404k in March 2014 – Moki.com $66k, Undergraduate.com $22k
Namejet released it’s March 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 74 domains for $404,498 in March 2014. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure that the bulk amount …
Read More »How much will Election.com be sold for at the Namejet auction?
The domain name Election.com is in a public auction at Namejet since yesterday and after just a few hours it is already at $18,600. How much do you think it will be sold for? There …
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