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The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. A British ccTLD reigns over our weekly Top 20 Sales Chart and takes a place among the year's 10 biggest country code sales. Three other ccTLDs also made the all extension leader board, along with a .org, a .net and the usual dominating pack of .com domains.
Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: .Biz bags over $360,000 in an auction of 1-character domains (including $66,000 for a single domain), Sedo co-founders sell their remaining stock to the Adlink Group and the U.S. government.loosens (but doesn't release) its leash on ICANN.
Sorry for the lack of blog posts this week. I have been busy getting ready for IzeaFest, which begins tomorrow night. The event will start off tomorrow night at Busch Gardens in Tampa, FL (Howl-O-Scream) and end Sunday in Orlando, FL at SeaWorld.
What is IzeaFest?
Direct from IzeaFest's website: "An interactive event designed to educate, inform...
People tend to concentrate on so many different facts when selling domain names or websites. I am not going to come right out and say those are not important factors, because they are. But there's one thing that seller's often miss, and don't concentrate on.
This underlying factor to selling domain names and websites is
Auctioneer Krzysztof Konieczny in action – Warsaw Marriott Hotel
The second live domain auction in Poland was held during MeetDomainers in Warsaw Marriott Hotel, September 25th. 34 out of 60 domains were sold for a total of nearly ?80,000 ($120,000).
Top 10 auction sales:
1. lekarze.pl ?33,750?(doctors)
2. informatyka.pl ?7,500?(computer scie...
All of the 31 One-Character .BIZ domain names were sold at Sedo auction for a total of $369,195.
The top sale was e.biz for $66,001. Second place was taken by 1.biz for $32,003 and third by d.biz for $26,110.
Sedo has exclusively been selected to auction the majority of the available internet catalog of one-character .BIZ
Oversee.net's Moniker and Snapnames divisions have partnered with Dark Blue Sea's (ASX:DBS, parent company of Fabulous.com) Domain Distribution Network (DDN). Customers that have their domains listed on for sale at Moniker or Snapnames can now also list their domains on the registrars that participate in the Domain Distribution Network. Domains lis...
AdLINK Group (DUS:LKI) has recently completed their display marketing unit, AdLINK Media and will use the gained funds in order to .buy the remaining 24.06% of shares (currently owned by the founders) in order to increase their ownership of Sedo to 100%. The company will pay 4.25 Million of newly created AdLINK shares, as well
Effective October 1, internet governing body ICANN will no longer be under the control of the U.S. Government. The Affirmation of Commitments signed today by the US Government's National Telecommunications Information Administration and ICANN commits to allowing ICANN remain a private not for profit organization.? It also declares ICANN is independ...
Sedo just wrapped up their single character .biz auction today, pulling in over $360,000 on 31 domains, or an average of roughly $11,000 per domain.? Andrew at DNW pointed out that E.biz was the top contender with over 20 bids coming in and a whopping $66,001 price tag.?? Several domains were not included in the
Sales network picks up inventory and distribution.
Dark Blue Sea's Domain Distribution Network (DDN) has partnered with Oversee.net and its Moniker and Snapnames divisions.
Customers that have their domain names at Moniker and list them for sale can have the domains syndicated through Domain Distribution Network's partners. If a domain sells, fulf...
AdLINK has purchased the remaining 24% of Sedo and promoted its managing director.
Sedo parent company AdLINK Group has purchased the outstanding 24.06% of Sedo shares owned by its founders. AdLINK will purchase the shares for 5.5M EUR in cash plus 4.25 million shares of AdLINK. At today's exchange rates and stock price, and
e.Biz steals the show at successful one character .biz auction.
It's no surprise that e.Biz was the top selling domain name in Sedo's one character .biz domain name auction.
But $66,001?
That will certainly turn a lot of heads. Especially since the winner could have picked the domain up for a few hundred dollars and a commitment
Sedo creating network to provide more exposure to domain name listings.
Domain broker Sedo will introduce its own version of a "domain name multiple listing service" in 2010. Although details are limited at this time, it appears to offer sellers expanded reach, similar to AfternicDLS and Domain Distribution Network.
There are two technical keys to...
Domain Name Wire interviews ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom.
We have a new acronym to add to the domain name lexicon: AOC, for Affirmation of Commitments.
Earlier today the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally announced its new agreement to replace the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the U.S. Government.
On the surface, t...
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I am looking to sell a whole bunch of geo + keyword domain names for great prices just to clear them out. There are medical, insurance, restaurant, hotel, travel and other keyword domain names in the lot below, all of which are priced to move quickly.
I've had the urge to build some of these names
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The government is paying 10% of your purchase, up to?$8000 max,?to any first time home buyer?with an income of less than $75k.? It will end on December 1, 2009.
So far, this year 1.9 million home purchases have qualified for this tax credit.? 1.9 million x $8000 = $15 billion.? So, the program cost the government Read more articles on this topic at...
The sale of e.Biz certainly seems to be creating quite a stir. Could this be the shot of adrenalin that the registry needed? But sedo has more, Wet.Biz
Oversee.net announced today that it has partnered with Domain Distribution Network (DDN), a unit of Australia-based Dark Blue Sea to significantly expand marketplace options for aftermarket domain name buyers and sellers.
The Domain Distribution Network enables registrars, resellers and portals to earn commission selling aftermarket domains from th...
The JPA, the agreement with the United States under which ICANN has operated under since its inception expires today.
ICANN released the"Affirmation of Commitments" which replaces the JPA starting tommorow.
Basically the US is giving up full control over ICANN.
We predicted this would happen late last year in our predictions for 2009.
Here is the t...
The domain name AucklandHotel.com sold on Godaddy expired auction platform for $7,505 yesterday.
HotelMelbourne.com also sold on Godaddy.com yesterday for $3,724.
The CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom is scheduled to appear on CNBC's "Power Lunch" at around 1:15 to 2 PM EST.
We will let you know what he had to say.
Talk about a milestone for the Internet.
The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spent more on internet advertising than on television advertising.
According to a report by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers,? advertisers spent a record ?1.75bn on online advertising,? a 4.6% year-to-year increase, i...
The Sedo auction of single letter and single number .biz domain names is closing. It appears that the majority of domains will?be sold?in the $7000 - $60,000 range with e.biz coming in near the top at $66,001, and 1.biz going for $32,003.
These domain names will make great brandable, easy-to-remember web portals for general business purposes.
A geo-targeted domain name in the mobile extension (.mobi) sells for $4380 on Sedo. The domain is MiamiRealEstate.mobi. The whois shows the new owner as the .com owner of the generic phrase "Miami Real Estate".
Obtaining the mobile web address is a terrific idea and a good match for the .com version. Miami real estate will
After a long day catching up after being out of the office for the past couple days I come home tonight and my family is watching one of my daughters favorite shows, iCarly. iCarly focuses on a teenage girl and her friends that run a web show on her domain name iCarly.com. As a domain
There is one website with tools for domainers that I have found very useful. Estibot.com has so many different tools that can help you with all types of domaining
I pay for the Domainer Monthly plan which is $4.95 a month. The way I look at it is if I find one name a month that
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It would only seem natural that Bank of America, the largest bank in the US according to assets, would own the domain name BankofAmerica.com - and of course they do BUT it would seem like a no-brainer that a company as big and as well known as BOA would also own the domain name BOA.com.
As Domain Investors we tend to be very focused on .com – and with good reason. If you are going to invest in a domain name a .com will definitely have the most value when you are looking to re-sell the domain. There are a million different price tables comparing the .com re-sale value to
The single character .biz domains auctioned at Sedo have been sold for the following prices. Most of the auctions are still running and i will update their prices later.
e.biz – $66,001
r.biz – $8,855
c.biz – $8,988
u.biz – $10,099
5.biz – $7,601
Talk about a media blitz, I couldn't help but notice that domaining veteran Frank Hsu's new service AppBank.com is gaining a great deal of media attention.? Frank has started a company which pays end-users for creating and uploading social content to social networks.? Currently they are focused on Facebook and any end-user with a registered...
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