It was just 8 hours ago when we posted the Godaddy Super Bowl Ad known as the #Godaddypuppy which went tragically wrong. Now the CEO of Godaddy has given in to the overwhelming condemnation of the ad and announced the commercial will not air during the Super Bowl. Had they reached out to anyone in […]

As Mike Berkens noted, the domain Oreos.com has been in auction at DropCatch.com – an outfit of NameBright / Huge Domains. After other drop catching services failed to catch the former domain property of Kraft Foods, the current status of the auction which expires in less than a day, shows a top bid of only […] Copyright DomainGang

559 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS last week totaling $1.2 Million Dollars All sales this week were led by one of our domain names,  SuperSeats.com which sold for $48,888 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: superseats.com at 48,888 […]

Techcrunch.com just covered TheDrop.club, what they describe as a "Digg/Reddit/Hacker News/Product Hunt for electronic dance music" The site is Thedrop.club and "Twitch/Exec co-founder and Y Combinator partner Justin Kan told TechCrunch: “I wanted something to create a constant stream of new electronic music tracks every day" TechCrunch.com goes on...

Namecheap.com has jumped on the outrage from Godaddy's Super Bowl commercial and is offering a $3.98 special using the transfer code of  PUPPYLOVE to anyone to transfer in any .com, .net .org or .info and Namecheap will contribute $1.50 to the Humane Society for each domain name transferred. As we noted earlier today people are […]

Frederick Schiwek is the co-founder and CEO of DomainInvest with over 15 years of experience in internet marketing, international business development, and of course, domain names. In fact, he has over 50,000 domain names in his portfolio. According to his biography on DomainInvest, "He is widely known as the former EVP of EuroDNS . . . He has pers...

For a while, GoDaddy has been sharing hints about the company's Super Bowl commercial and Buddy the dog's appearance. It seemed pretty evident that the company was not going to go the "sexy" route as it had done in years past, but the concept behind this year's Super Bowl commercial had not been shared. GoDaddy's 2015 Super Bowl commercial was poss...

Its been less than an hour since we posted Godaddy's new Super Bowl Ad and social media is already weighting in on what might go down as one of the worst marketing blunders of all time. Just go to Twitter and search for the hashtag #GoDaddyPuppy and you will see that the vast majority of […]

I have this idea in my head that I will sell one of my domain names for cash plus equity, and the equity stake will become worth a substantial amount of money. Unfortunately for most of us, this is simply a pipe dream, and I think the likelihood of it happening is very slim. That being said, I have spent time negotiating deals like these, even thou...

5 new top level domain names will be released on Wednesday. A number of new top level domain names are being launched in general availability this week, all on Wednesday. Radix's .Space hits registrars' shelves at a price of about $10. It's a generic domain, but also conjures up the idea of your "space" online. […]...

Donuts has won yet another new gTLD string ahead winning .Express. The only other applicant was submitted by Express.com who has now withdrawn their application. This domain was scheduled for an ICANN Last Resort Auction. There are now 11 new gTLD scheduled to go to an ICANN in February and 19 more for March. As […]

Jennifer LeClaire over at CIO-Today published an article on the Russian dating site Topface being hacked by someone known as Mastermind. The website reports to have over 90 million members. From the article: “A hacker calling himself ‘Mastermind’ is claiming to be in possession of over 20 million credentials for an unnamed dating site,” Daniel [...

It's good news for the owner of three formerly stolen numeric domains: 224.com, 452.com and 605.com. ESQwire, the domainer-friendly law firm of attorneys Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaeffer, along with Greenberg & Lieberman, filed a lawsuit in November, to recover the domains on behalf of their owner. In late December, the Virginia court decided...

Microsoft used Marksmen, a third party acquisition service - aka, proxy buyer – to buy the domain name HoloLens.com for a mere $6,750 and some pondered on the timeframe of their brand development. The domain was retained for less than a week by Marksmen, before Microsoft announced the launch of HoloLens and took over control […] Copyrig...

Igloo, the domain brokering company closed its Boston offices early today, as a hefty Nor'easter threatened the area. Despite being formed in New Zealand, the US offices don't get to enjoy much of the beautiful landscapes of Kiwi-land; the latter, is reserved for co-founder, Gregg G. McNair. "It's safety first; with all this snow we'll […] Co...

Booked Ltd of London which owns the domain Booked.xyz and Bookedxyz.com was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Booked.com in one of the most baseless UDRP cases we have ever read. Its too bad there is not any penalties for those who bring frivolous UDRP cases other than a […]

London based management consultancy Valideus decided to launch a sister company in the US and they have gotten off on the right foot by appointing veteran domain industry executive Jeff Neuman as the Senior Vice President for Valideus USA. Jeff started his new job today.

DomainReport.ca Last week's .CA TBR Drop was not a huge one, with only 99 .ca domains grabbed.  I didn't see any outstanding domains, but as usual there were a few good ones to be had. As for .ca domain sales, there was one sale reported that I haven't posted yet, and that was: Grad.ca  -  $9,880  -  sold at Sedo Grad.ca doesn't resolve to a we...

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Fotocom Société Anonyme of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, just lost its bid to grab the generic domain Photo.com. Although the three member panel threw out the case out finding the Complainant failed on the first element of not proving trademark rights the panel refused to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). Here are the highlights: 4....

Spanish consumers registered more dot .ES domains – the local ccTLD for Spain – than any other TLD in 2014. According to a report by Internet development agency, Red.es, there was an increase of 3.46% in dot .ES registrations, accounting for over half of all domain names registered in Spain. The total number of .ES […] Copyright D...

If you have had the pleasure of seeing any of Frank Schilling's keynote speeches in the past, then you know that he doesn't disappoint. Frank captivated a crowded hall filled with hundreds of people at NamesCon 2015 with this speech. I'll let Frank do the talking from here on out... [MEDIA]

A discussion about new top level domain names with the biggest new TLD company. Donuts Inc doesn't sell baked goods by the dozen — it sells new domain names. But like Krispy Kreme, it sells a lot of varieties of its product. In this episode, I chat with Donuts co-founder and COO Richard Tindal. Donuts […]

ICANN Compliance's campaign against registrars that fail to respond to abuse reports continued last week, with two registrars hit with breach notices. The registrars in question are Above.com and Astutium, neither of which one would instinctively bundle in to the "rogue registrar" category. Both companies have been told they've breached section 3.1...

ICANN is thinking about expanding its controversial policy on name collisions from new gTLDs to new ccTLDs. The country code Names Supporting Organization has been put on notice (pdf) that ICANN's board of directors plans to pass a resolution on the matter shortly. The resolution would call on the ccNSO to "undertake a study to […] Related p...

A three member UDRP panel has awarded the domain name ElectricFootball.com to Tudor Games, Inc. of Sammamish, Washington which owned the domain name until 1997 when they "unintentionally" let it expire and that is when Vertical Axis Inc. who was represented by ESQwire.com Law Firm, acquired the domain on the drop. The Complaintant did not […]...