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The domain name PetHotels.com didn’t sell at NameJet. Highest bid was $40,000 but the reserve wasn’t met. The auction had 337 bids from 321 bidders. There were 7 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. There …

Pool announced on the 20th of December that it is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. Pool’s move to shut down registrars left thousands of domains in limbo. Today Pool send an …

Frank Schilling send the January update for Internet Traffic/DomainNameSales yesterday. On Friday the broker directory on the DomainNameSales.com site was rolled out. The broker directory will let any serious broker, any salesperson, from any platform …

Sedo’s latest partnership is with Chinese registrar 66.cn. Customers searching for domains at 66.cn’s site will see premium domain listings available for purchase at Sedo, and be redirected to the Sedo website via a “for …

Twitter, Inc filed a UDRP dispute with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the domain name twitter.org. The domain was registered in October 2005 and Twitter didn’t even exist as an idea at that …

I have used Hunting Moon to buy a few domain names in the past, mostly adult. I got an email today that they have relaunched their marketplace and that they are running an auction called …

Starting January 13 Go Daddy started supporting .ca Internationalized Domain Names with French characters. This means French-Canadian individuals and businesses can now register the English and French versions of their domain name. The .ca registration …

Richemont International SA, owner of IWC watches, filed 7 UDRP complaints on a single day (10th of January 2013) with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. All complaints are related to their IWC trademark. Some of …

As of 11 January 2013, 10 ICANN accredited registrar are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN requests that these 10 registrars cure …

I see Ziff Davis and Cnet parking unused domains at Sedo and Domain Sponsor and I start thinking if domain name parking is dead or not. Sure earnings have dropped in the past few years …