The expansion of the Internet name lanes is like the Y2k bug at times: gTLD domains introduce challenges daily to functions where regular TLDs do just fine. An apparent glitch that we found yesterday, affects the API between Domain Name Sales and Escrow.com, and it's something that produced an hour of "fun" attempting to complete […] Copyrigh...

Yesterday afternoon, Protrada announced the soft launch of NameInvestors.com, a platform that allows users to create a "domain shop" to help sell their domain names. According to the newsletter email I received, "this new platform offers domain investors a ‘domain shop' and ‘tools' for marketing and selling of domain names, faster." Acc...

I'm not sure if it's my luck, my timing, or my offers.  Over the last three days I've had people reach out to me with a price on a name that I've had interest in. I usually take 24 hours to think over decisions but in that time the name has sold to someone else.  I know you're saying "should've just bought it and you would have the names".  But the...

Digital.com sold in the Heritage Auction for $325,000 and with the buyer's premium the total price to the buyer came to $373,750. After the auction we communicated with the gentleman who purchased the domain name, Richard Kershaw. We decided to ask Richard a few questions about what he does, why he purchased the name and […]

Hello, Happy Friday, and welcome to Flippa Friday here on MorganLinton.com! There are some very solid names that were added to Flippa this week, this is definitely one of my best lists this year, enjoy! Freakish.com – 15 year-old one-word .COM that could be a good one for someone who is doing something Halloween-related. Domains like […...

One of my clients has strong ties with the former DEC/Digital in Maynard, Massachusetts. The recent auctioning of several digital assets of the former company, that was absorbed by Compaq and eventually Hewlett-Packard, adds a sad epitaph to the region's tech sector. My client is a corporate veteran that has lived the 70′s and 80′s [...

Nathan Safran wrote a piece on Search Engine Land that had to do with the branding benefits of search. In his piece entitled, It’s Time For Marketers To Attend To The Branding Benefits Of Search, Safran cited a Google study that concluded, “Search Ads Lift Brand Awareness.” The study tested brand recall for searchers who […]

Two weeks ago, we covered the first recorded UDRP for a dot .Company domain name; Statoil, a Norwegian oil company undertook the task of protecting its trademark. In this case, the same company filed a UDRP against the registrant of the domain name, Statoil.email. The Respondent, Giovanni Laporta of UK, asserted that the domain is […] Copyrig...

According to a regulatory filing, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announces that it has issued 350,000 new Ordinary Shares following exercise by an employee of 350,000 share options at an exercise price of 9p per share. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu [R...

DotWeekly.com - DotWeekly Internet Ventures Here is the latest company domain movers with new registrations and domain name purchases by large companies. Several interesting stories along with some of these domains today, so enjoy. Penguin Books Limited Purchased the domain name HappyReader.com, likely from Sedo. The domain was registered 3/11/2014...

Another new gTLD string has apparently been resolved, .Broadway The surviving applicant is Celebrate Broadway, Inc which is a Minds + Machines backed applicant. Those withdrawing their applications are broadwayacrossamerica.com and Donuts. We do not have any information regarding how the contention set was settle or what the terms were. We only kno...

Celebrity chef among end users who bought domain names last week. Celebrity chef Paula Deen, who experienced a spectacular fall from grace last year over her prior use of racial slurs, is making a comeback with Paul Deen Ventures. She's launching a subscription service called Paula Deen Network (PDN). She just made a smart move […]

Sedo reported its sales from this month's Great Domains auction, and there are a few notable sales to report. Chat.fr was reportedly sold for 99,999 EUR and Chat.de was reportedly sold for 65,000. The total of these two domain name sales was 164,999 EUR. At today's exchange rate, this is approximately $221,872.51 USD. Several of the other domain na...

Kathy Nielsen did an article for Wired that took a look at the U.S. lagging behind China when it comes to gTLD awareness. From the article: The IDN movement is significant in China, which has 21.97% of the world’s Internet users, compared to just 9.58% of the world’s Internet users coming from the U.S. In […]

  Here is this weeks 10 names up for sale or at auction.       HDMovies.info (auction)   The sale of Movie.info for $24,000 shows the value of this one.  In the last two years, monthly searches for HD movies has gone 49K to 200K 38832.com (auction)  16880.com went at auction last week for over $3K.  The double 8s on both of them are ...

After spending more than 5 hours at Webfair Virtual 2014 – the first virtual domain conference ever – it's time for a review. Phew. Our virtual legs, dressed in casual jeans and sneakers are definitely hurting. Exploring the entire area takes some time, even when one is speed walking by holding down the SHIFT key. […] Copyright Do...

During ts earnings call today Verisign (VRSN) brushed away the new gTLD's saying "Gross registrations for new gTLD's are at 1.6 million which puts them on Par with .Co" Ouch Verisign's Representative went further to say that no one should build a conclusion on the new gTLD program until we go through a re-billing cycle […]...

.Com base inches forward, .Net prices are increasing. Verisign reported earnings after the bell today, and the results for .com/.net aren't that promising. It gets harder to grow something as it gets bigger, but net adds across these two domain names slowed by quite a bit. Verisign reported just 0.42 million net new ads during […]

Heritage Auctions' latest domain name auction goes well. Heritage Auctions latest domain name auction has concluded with $773,876 worth of domain name sales. That doesn't include after-auction sales, which almost always increase the total sales number. That total (and the prices below) include a 15% buyers' premium. Including the premium best repre...

Someone mist have missed the "summer doldrums" memo! Four high end sales lit up the domain aftermarket this week with three of those not only topping our latest weekly all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart, but also crashing the top 20 sales for the entire Year to Date.

I wasn't able to get a list up yesterday because it has been busy as hell at work! I'll do what I can, but I am still trying to come

There’s been a lot of speculation about how domain registrations will take off (or not) in the new gTLDs that are rapidly coming online. Last year we covered the growth of .PW roughly one month after launch; this commercial re-launch of the ccTLD for Palau was watched closely because many felt it might predict customer […]

One company is responsible for registering over 97% of the 9,025 .Voting new gTLD domain names. We reported earlier today that .Voting had 9,025 domain names registered after the first day of general availability However we see that 8,811 of the 9,025 domain names were registered by the domain name registrar, Registry Gate GmbH" which […]...

Yesterday a bunch of new gTLD's went into general availability (GA)  meaning domain names can be registered live on a first come first serve basis. All total include any Sunrise registrations and any Landrush/Early Access Program (EAP) registration which took place before GA: .Voting 9.025 .Kaufen which is German for the word "Buy" had 4,325 [̷...

Over the past week, 506 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: gca.com at 90,000 USD · Top ccTLD: open.tv at 25,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: matrix.org at 7,999 USD The […]