OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

Here is a list of my 4 figure domain name purchases at drop/expired auctions in 2012. I also buy domains from other venues like Sedo or Buy Domains and directly from the domain name owners …

Ron Paul split the original UDRP complaint for the domains RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org into 2 separate complaints, one for each domain name. Ron Paul originally filed a cybersquatting UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization …

ICANN released today the string similarity contention sets for New gTLD program. ICANN focused on the visually similar gTLD strings that resulted in only 2 “Non-Exact Match Contention Sets”: .hotels & .hoteis (small l is …

One 3 word domain and one 4 word domain lead this week’s Sedo sales report: VagaDeEmprego.com sells for 60k EUR and ThrillOfTheGrill.com for 30k USD. This week, 844 transactions (763 last week) took place on …

Siesta.com sold for $50,500 at Namejet today. The auction had 294 bids from 275 bidders. There were 10 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. The domain name was sold by YummyNames.com that is a Tucows company. …

ICM Registry announced on the 14th of February the sale of 25 Premium Domains in a deal worth $185,000 to IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg. ICM didn’t reveal the complete list of the domain names and the …

Two new gTLD applicants, GED Domains LLC and GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, have send a joint statement to ICANN explaining the reasons why the .GED and .GEA gTLD strings should not be placed in string contention …

MELBOURNE, Australia – 26 February 2013 – Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) today announced its full year results for the year ending 31 December 2012, reporting an 5% year-on-year decrease in revenue to $170.6 million and …

Wages.com sold for $41,000 at Namejet today. The auction had 353 bids from 309 bidders. There were 7 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. The domain name was sold by Tucows.com. $40k+ seems to be a …

On 26 March 2013, ICANN will unveil a global repository for trademark data, the first of its kind in the domain name space. The Trademark Clearinghouse will enable companies and individuals to protect their trademarks, …