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It's 2012, and domain Registrars should provide bulk edit features – or risk losing their accreditation. I kept about 100 ccTLD domains with Domainmonster for the past year; when the time came for renewal, I decided that having waited for a full year for them to implement their bulk edit feature was plenty of time.
Here are your Godaddy expired domain auctions for Tuesday, January 31st. All these auctions are ending today and many have no bidding activity at the time of this post.
Getting Attention: Opina.com, Kbms.com, Berkheimer.com, and Vedalo.com.
Developed on .net: MusicFancy.com
Others of Interest: Swge.com, Phrenic.com, SocialPublisher.com, VintageReno...
Today's list checks in with 82 freshly expired domains now available for registration. A vast majority of the domains on my watchlist didn't make it through today. I'm running short on time so I'll withhold my personal preferences on this list. Grab them while they're available as the best ones don't last very long.
Still some
The 2012 DOMAINFest Global Conference is underway. While the show officially opened this morning, there was a lot of pre-show activity last night including a big soiree hosted by Frank Schilling. We have photos and highlights from that as well as today's opening sessions in Santa Monica.
ICANN wants to open another new TLD application round early next year. Is this plausible? A lot of companies are applying for dot brand top level domains not because they want to right now, but because they think it might be their only chance. At least for the foreseeable future. But is this the case?
12 hours left to take this year's domain industry survey. Time is running out to take the seventh annual Domain Name Wire survey. The survey, which asks users to answer questions about domain name registrars, domain parking, and expired domains, concludes January 31. Results will be published in February. Participants from 47 countries have already...
Car rental company demands typo of National.com, a domain it doesn't even own. Vanguard Trademark Holdings, which owns the National car rental brand, has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against the domain name Natiional.com. The company filed a UDRP against the domain name already. It lost that case in June. On the same day it
Klout, a social media analytics and ranking start up, recently added "Domainname" as a featured topic category. It doesn't seem like Klout is giving this topic to many domain investors, but it appears that domain investing will soon be a viable and searchable topic on Klout. When you click the "domainname" topic link, an error...
I wrote a post yesterday recommending LeadRefs.com as a source to find potential domain buyers. I want to share some additional insight and information to help you potentially close a deal. First off, it may or may not be okay for you to send multiple email messages trying to sell domain names to people you
With a couple of days to go until the DomainFest live auction, a little under 20% of the auctions already have bids. The live auction, also found online via Snapnames, will take place on Thursday, February 2nd at noon EST. I have highlighted the domain names I like in the auction and welcome your feedback. Domain Name
I just listened in to a call with the CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom, on an update on the new gTLD program give to some bloggers.
"For us, No news is good news, things are running smoothly we have not encountered any major technical or service issues."
Beyond that Mr. Beckstrom was unwilling to give any updated numbers in terms of the number of applica...
Leading gay community website GAYS.DE has bought two domain names gay.de and gay.at for a staggering €165,000 (approx. $218,000)
According to a press release, ""GAYS.DE’s special characteristic is that it checks its members’ authenticity through sophisticated technical mechanisms without risking their anonymity. This way they save their users from ...
Big shout out and congrats to Lana Del Rey, Rob Grant, and the entire Grant family as "Born To Die", Lana Del Rey album was released today and is currently number 1 and 2 on the iTunes US album chart.
The Deluxe version with bonus material is number 1 on iTunes and the regular album is #2.
According to Lana's Facebook page the album is "#1 in 11 ...
Sedo.com just released its weekly sales list.
In all Sedo.com sold 939 domain names totaling over $1.68 million with 34% of them being "buy it now" sales.
Sofi.com led all sales at $45K followed by naturkraft.de selling for around $30K
Here are the reportable sales:
Domain name
Price
Currency
.COMs
sofi.com
45,000
USD
smore.com...
Afternic.com reported $1,131,352 in domain sales for the week ending January 29th.
The publicly reportable sales included in the total above came to $692,343 led by moneyandme.com at $20,000 followed by performancegraphics.com at $12,500.
Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales:
.com Sales
moneyandme.com
$20,000
performanc...
<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=vie waltcast/altcast_code=ff030118cf" _mce_href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/tas k=viewaltcast/altcast_code=ff030118cf" >DomainFest 2012 Live Coverage</a>
Day one is winding down after a great day of seminars and networking. I spent most of my morning hopping from meeting-to-meeting and then headed over to the seminars for the afternoon. DOMAINfest brings Domainers and Domaining companies in from all over the world so there are some incredible opportunities to make deals whether you're
Megaupload – the company under siege by the FBI – applied for a trademark at the USPTO in 2008; the trademark was issued a year later. The illustrious Megaupload CEO, Kim Schmitz eventually changed his name to Kim Dotcom. However, neither of these names appear on the USPTO application for the "Megaupload" trademark. The application...
We can't help it but disclose how overjoyed we are; Colombian model Natalia Velez announced on Twitter that she is in love with our editor, Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice! This is outstanding news, because the feelings are mutual. Natalia Velez will appear in the Super Bowl commercial for GoDaddy, promoting the .CO brand and TLD. Natalia...
These days, uber-domainer Frank Schilling has been busy buying low and selling high. The German-born, Canadian transplant to the Caymans is noted for his bidding strategy on different domain venues, including NameJet. During his latest digital 10-day run, Frankie acquired the following domains at frugal prices: aquariumlight.com $1,100 caradvertisi...
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