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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 …

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? …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This past week the following 2 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .marketing and .holiday. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $16,200 or more depending …

Uniregistry will be sponsoring the luncheon on May 29th at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014 at Las Vegas. Here is the announcement from Rick Schwartz: T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is excited to announce that Frank Schilling’s UNIREGISTRY will be sponsoring the …

EURid has been confirmed as the registry manager of the .eu top-level domain for the next five years, with the European Commission Decision (2014/207/EU), published in the Official Journal of the European Union (L109). “We …

The New gTLDs .red, .blue and .pink launched today by Afilias. The .BLUE, .RED, .PINK general availability period opened at 16:00:00 UTC on April 17, 2014. A lot of people complained that they couldn’t find …