OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

Yesterday Go Daddy’s 2nd 2013 Super Bowl commercial came out featuring auto racing driver Danica Patrick introducing model Bar Refaeli and a geek named Walter played by Jesse Heiman. The commercial is named “Perfect Match” …

Go Daddy sold 35,156 domains in January. That is almost a 5% increase from December’s 33,446 domains. 52% (55% in December) of the sales were from auctions, 46% (43% in December) of the sales were from Buy …

ICANN accredited registrar HEXONET released the latest news about it’s New gTLDs pre registrations. Some gTLD applicants are already accepting pre-registrations and HEXONET is using an “Expression of Interest”(EOI) service, to allow users to preregister …

Yesterday I wrote about how Google won a UDRP Complaint at the National Arbitration Forum for the domain name GlassGoogle.com. Google had an easy UDRP win as the Respondent failed to submit a Response in …

Complainant McLaren Health Care Corporation got a trademark registration for the mark “mclaren” on October 16, 2012 so they thought it would be a good idea to file UDRP complaints for every domain name incorporating …

Craig Schwartz that is the Director of fTLD Registry Services, LLC sent a letter to Ms. Christine Willett, General Manager of the New gTLD Program at ICANN asking for an extension to the objection filing …

Domain Tools starts offering a Domain Report in PDF format for an introductory price of $49. Domain Report is simple to use: enter a domain name and Domain Tools will gather nearly everything they know about …

Complainant Enterprise Holdings, Inc. submitted a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum on December 10, 2012 for the domain name Enterprises.biz. Enterprise Holdings, Inc. from St. Louis, MO, USA, is the owner of the ENTERPRISE …

Sedo is auctioning off the domain portfolio from the DSB Bank N.V’s legacy. Sedo announced today that are going to be 3 special auctions that are taking place at Sedo in partnership with the bankruptcy …

The domain name BIN.net didn’t sell at NameJet. Highest bid was $3,500 USD but ironically the reserve price wasn’t met. BIN is used as an acronym for a “Buy It Now” price which in this case …

This week, 715 transactions (1076 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.42 million ($1.60 last week). Only 235 domains (241 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

Frank Schilling’s company Name Admin Inc. (DomainNameSales.com) just sold the domain name SalleDeBain.com for 60,000 USD at Sedo. Salle De Bain is French for bathroom. The domain was registered in 2001 and whois does not …

Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action has failed to secure any of the corresponding domain names. The non profit organization failed to purchase any of it’s domain names before the news about the group were announced …

Sedo announced today a new partnership with one of Russia’s leading registrars, REG.RU. This is a very important move by Sedo that is attempting to enter the fast expanding Russian domain market. Russians are pretty …