ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) requested from Verisign (the .com and .net registry operator) a contractual compliance audit for the .net TLD. With a letter dated 8 of January 2013 to ICANN, …
Read More »GasStations.com sells for $25,300 at Namejet – Ambitious.com didn’t reach reserve
GasStations.com sold for $25,300 at Namejet in a public auction. The domain probably had a $25k reserve. 3 bidders went over the reserve. The auction had 276 bid from 217 bidders. The domain name Ambitious.com didn’t sell at …
Read More »ICM Registry sales of Thai.xxx for $8,250 and Dolls.xxx for $7,425 are confirmed
ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. This week 2 more domains have been confirmed as sold (whois has been updated): Thai.xxx for $8,250 and Dolls.xxx …
Read More »New Go Daddy Phishing Attack
Go Daddy made an announcement that there is a phishing attack underway that may affect some of it’s customers. I suggest as a general rule to not click on links inside of emails. Here is …
Read More »Artsy moves from the domain name Art.sy to Artsy.net while Syria conflict escalates
Artsy that is one of the largest online collections of contemporary art and is powered by The Art Genome Project announced the move of its service permanently to the domain name artsy.net. The move comes following …
Read More »Sedo sells fx.co for 50,000 USD, forex.co for 40,000 USD, sugar.co for 30,000 USD
Sedo published today quite an impressive list of recent .co domain name sales. Here is the list: fx.co 50,000 USD forex.co 40,000 USD sugar.co 30,000 USD rocket.co 16,000 USD childcare.co 14,000 USD cinema.co 10,000 EUR …
Read More »UDRP complaint for Guarani.com denied – Yet another Brazilian Complainant
A three member Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name Guarani.com that a Brazilian company filed at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because there was nothing indicating that the Respondent in the US …
Read More »Afternic starts sending minimum offer amounts to Go Daddy – The Go Daddy problem remains
Afternic started sending minimum offer amounts, for domain listings, to Go Daddy. But Sedo has been doing this for 3 months now and it hasn’t helped anyone. Many domainers have removed their portfolios from Sedo. …
Read More »Major League Baseball (MLB) buys Rockies.com for $1.2 million
Major League Baseball (MLB) paid $1.2 million to buy the domain name Rockies.com from the Canadian The Rockies Tourism Authority that now uses the domain name canadianrockies.org. This sale was brokered by Venture Capital Group, …
Read More »Sedo sells 670 domains worth $.87 million: Aandacht.nl sells for 18,150 EUR and Host.de for 15,000 EUR – Week 1/1-7/1 2013
This week, 670 transactions (932 in the last 2 weeks) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $.87 million ($1.38 in the last 2 weeks). Only 194 domains (330 in the last 2 …
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Mike Mann says GoDaddy domain appraisals are a total scam and a racket
Mike Mann made a few posts on social media about the GoDaddy automated domain name appraisal tool, calling it a total scam and a racket. I can’t say I blame him. I have written numerous posts about this ridiculously badly made automated tool. Here is the latest post: GoDaddy appraisals …
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GoDaddy appraisals display comparable domain sales from 2004 (!!!)
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Domain name portfolio audit (in 8 steps)
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Dicker failed again to pay money owed as promised
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Greek banks think GoDaddy is a betting company!
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GoDaddy acquires Dan.com
Dan.com and Reza Sardeha announced today that “Dan & GoDaddy join forces”. If you ask me it feels like a sad day in domaining today. Hope I am wrong but previous GoDaddy acquisitions, like Uniregistry, didn’t go the way everyone was hoping. It feels like less competition, less innovation and …
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DAN adds domain categories and a hybrid PPC for sale page template
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Escrow.com partners with MicroAcquire
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Liquid market report Q1 2022: $16M in Escrow.com sales
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Dan improves domain portfolio management (and makes many other updates)