Sedo reported their sales for last week.Highlights include jerusalem.com leading .COM sales at 510,000 USD, hzg.de leading ccTLDs at 9,500 EUR (appx. $12,000 USD), and vacationpackages.org leading the other category at 18,500 USD. See all of the reported sales after the jump. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Offer: .com/.net domains only $...

Guest contributor Zak Muscovitch is a domain name lawyer, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been practicing domain name law for over ten years and is now running for the election for a seat on the CIRA Board of Directors. Go to http://www.DNattorney.com and http://zak-for-cira.ca/ for more information. The Canadian Internet Registration Aut...

As DNN has learned the buyers of the DomainName.com registrar and customer base sold by DomainConsultant, are non other than Richard Lau of DomainManager.com and Richard Kirkendall of NameCheap.com. The two, also known as "The Richards" partnered up on the purchase and are planning to transform the company into a new brand. Richard Kirkendall told...

Sedo reported their sales for last week. Highlights include the already reported angels.com sale at 200,000 USD, progress.nl as the top ccTLDs sale at 20,000 EUR (appx. $25,250 USD), and hostel.info leading the other category at 7,900 EUR (appx. $9,950 USD).

DomainConsultant.com, mostly known for their Domain Madness auctions so far have a special item that is being auctioned today – an entire domain registrar business. The business is an ICANN accredited company that has about 8,000 domains under management and uses "DomainName.com" as their brand. You can find a breakdown of their existing regi...

After the jump you will find the live auction results from thew MeetDomainers Event held in Manchester, UK by Daniel Dryzek‘s DDFund.eu and NameDrive. Highlight was the sale of QuadBikes.co.uk for £12,500 and BackLinks.co.uk for £3,000, but it is also worth mentioning the unusual auctioneer the event had – domainer and domain reporter M...

As announced by the .ORG registry, Public Interest Registry, Alexa Raad has resigned as President and CEO, effective September 24th, 2010. She was with the registry operator for 3 1/2 years. The Board has initiated a search committee for the next CEO. In the meanwhile, Mr. Botterman will step in as Interim CEO following Ms.

We will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted TRAFFIC Conference in Dublin, Ireland. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction. You can see the live blogged results after the jump. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Offer:

CNN has a video about the DomainFest NYC Auction on their CNN money site. The video features Ovesee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky, Domain Broker David Parkinson and Domain Investor Kevin Wood and shows the final moment of the sale of NewYorkAppartments.com and another domain. [Ed. I can't believe I had to type in the embed code

As noted during our unofficial live blogging of the SnapNames/Moniker Live auction results, the SnapNames live system marked a number of names as sold that weren't sold. Thus we're following up with a separate post with the official results, which show 17 domains sold for a total of $1,801,900. Names not sold in the live

According to a spokesperson of Oversee.net their subsidiary Moniker.com has successfully brokered TShirt.com, t-shirt.com, t-shirts.com, tee-shirts.com and tees.com for $1.265 million.  The buyer is Costumes Galore, Inc. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Offer: .com/.net domains only $7.98/yr! Specializing in .kr domains $40/yr Get expired ...

With as little as 3 hours and 15 minutes left to go for some names, NameDrive's 3 letter ccTLD auction of 272 domain will end soon. Starting bids range anywhere from € 30.00 to € 200.00. Only 2 of the domain names have received bids so far, cck.es and lkq.es. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Upcoming Domain Industry Events,

Armorize, a web security company, reported on their blog today that Network Solutions had been displaying a widget box that contains malware.  The company was notified and quickly remedied the parking pags.  Based on a yahoo search only, there are over 5 million domain names with NSI parked landers that may have been affected by

Geo-domain name association Associated Cities went through some rough times in 2009 . Reports of trouble with internal conflicts between board members and the direction of the group circulated as the 2009 Geo Domain expo neared.  It seems now that the group is back on track and pushing forward with a new set of board

Apparently the Online Gambling site by the Province of British Columbia was not brought down by too much traffic after opening, as originally reported. The Globe and Mail now reports that the site was actually taken down because of a breach privacy that allowed players to see other player's financial information and even use their

Sedo has launched a new website for the "Sedo Pro World Tour" Events. The event takes place in five different cities across the world over the course of seven months. The tour starts off in the city of the US headquarter of the company, Boston and ends at the European headquarter in Cologne in February