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Verisign announced today that the .net registry fee will be increased from $5.11 to $5.62. This price does NOT include the $0.75 ICANN fee. So the actual wholesale fee paid by the registrars will be …

The domain name nye.com was just sold at NameJet. Highest bid was $175,500. The reserve was probably at about $100k but I can’t be sure. The auction had 331 bids from 285 bidders. There were 5 bidders with a $10k …

The Prioritization Draw was held on December 17th 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application was assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used …

This week, 945 transactions (900 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.48 million ($1.52 last week). Only 183 domains (262 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

Since Sedo (MLS) started forcingly and without my consent pushing my domain names at Go Daddy Auctions I have received a few offers from buyers through Go Daddy. I have removed 2 thirds of my …

I just noticed a couple of solid .us domain sales at Sedo this week: iceland.us 10,000 USD yummy.us 5,000 USD Other notable .us domain name sales from 2012: message.us 14,000 USD codemasters.us 10,000 USD cloud.us …

.fishing is the first contested gTLD to get a spot at the new GTLD prioritization draw. .fishing is contested by 2 applicants: United TLD Holdco Ltd. and Top Level Domain Holdings Limited Watch the live results …

.dnp got the first spot after the IDNs in the new GTLD prioritization draw. .play and .dog were drawn first but since these are contested they can’t get assigned a spot until all of their …

A Prioritization Draw is being held today 17 December 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application will be assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will …

Sedo just published it’s 2012 domain review. It seems that Sedo is oblivious at to what is happening to their own company. I think that the highlight of this review is summed up in this …