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Lots of buzz surrounded the end of the year Godaddy Groupon code deal. ?For $25 the deal would get you $70 in credit on godaddy. ?The credit applied to anything they sold, including premium domain listings as some reported. ?Some domainers/couponers went all-in buying groupons from the 70 or so cities that had the coupons
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As reported by InternetNews.me, PIR, the registry operating the .ORG gTLD has announce a price increase of 10% effective July 1st, 2013. The new price to registrars will be $8.25, an effective increase of $0.55 per domain name year. This makes .ORG more expensive that .COM ($7.85) as of mid next year.
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You a little less than 7 hours of the time of this post to register for next year's Webfest Global in Santa Monica (formerly known as DOMAINfest Global) for $1,095. The rate will increase by $200 as of tomorrow. Webfest Global will be organized by Oversee.net's DomainSponsor and will be held atFebruary 5-7, 2013 at
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Update on the Groupon Deal. ? Yea we're going there. . . . one last time because the savings is pretty hard to beat. The deal has a few more hours left in a few different cities still in the US. ?I can also confirm that you can buy these deals from multiple cities. ?I've
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Godaddy.com is running a pretty sweet Groupon.com deal. Buy $70 worth of credits for $25 . ?The deal ends Sunday at 12:00 AM I purchased this deal myself and can tell you it applied a credit to my account. I was able to use it for renewals but the credit showed up in my account
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Flippa.com sold StockPhoto.com at the asking price of $250,000 earlier today. The name was owned by Black Start, a photographic agency since 1995 based in White Plains, NY. The current site is not included in the sale.
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As announced in a blog post by Crystal Peterson, Jasmine Begg is the new Director of Sales and Marketing, EMEA at .CO Internet. Most of the people in the domain industry know her from her time at German registar?InternetX, where she served as Team Leader of International Business and attended many conferences. Crystal Peterson writes:
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VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) just announced that intends to increase the .NET domain registration pricing by 10% on July 1st, 2013, bringing the price for registrars from $5.11 per domain name year to $5.62. The announcement about the increase for .NET fees follows the agreement with the Department of Commerce and VeriSign that it would not increase
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The following is a guest post by Joe Alanga, GM North American Markets at CentralNic. He attended yesterday's prioritization draw at the LAX Hilton in Los Angeles. His summary outlines the results of the lottery draw along with some important information regarding the timeline of the new gTLD process. Yesterday, ICANN held the prioritization draw
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This week, 945 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.48 million. Over 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: ulink.com at 20,000 USD Top ccTLD: matik.ch at 11,000 EUR Top ?other? TLD: traspaso.net at 4,000 EUR See the full list
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Some quick information regarding the ICANN new gTLD?Prioritization Lottery Draw, which happens shortly: 1766 tickets were sold, 92% of applications (1920 total) First draw is for IDN applicants (108 out of 116 applications purchased tickets) Second draw for non-IDN applicants The proceeds of $176,600 for the ticket sales will go to the following th...
And here's where to watch the ICANN new gTLD lottery draw live today – either via the embedded stream below, or you can also watch it directly on Ustream or via Adobe Connect. The draw is expected to start at 4pm EST, 1pm PST which is 21:00 UTC. Streaming live video by Ustream
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Pinky Brand of Domain Diction released a mock movie trailer today for the new gTLDs. The prioritization draw takes place today. [via InternetNews.me]
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Domain Marketplace Sedo launched a new version of their German homepage today. According to an email sent at launch the focus of the redesign was the domain buyer: Easy access to domain search and search results The focus on buyers means that the homepage tries to answer the most frequently asked questions from buyers. The
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As already reported by others FindYourDomain.com sold Trumpet.com on Namejet for a price of $57,500 domains on Namejet. DNN reached out to the buyer, Nokta Domains. Arif ?eng?ren told DNN: As NoktaDomains.com, we are still going on buying premium domains in order to refresh and improve our domain portfolio. We are mainly focusing on one-word
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DomainParking just posted a promotional video on their Facebook page that explains the company history. It's quite entertaining, so go and watch it now:
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There are little less than 11 hours left in Sedo's current Greatdomains auction, which ends today (Dec 13, 2012) at 12pm EST. The auction features 308 domains. The current highest bids are: ik.com @$130,000 USD (reserve not met) reconnect.com @$20,000 USD (reserve not met) europe.tv @$13,000 USD (reserve not met) choinki.pl @$9,999 USD (reserve not...
ICANN has opened their ticket sales for the lottery for new TLD applicants earlier today. Ticket sales end on December 17th at 11am PST. Due to the lottery laws in California, the tickets have to purchased for $100 in person. Originally ICANN had proposed a digital archery system, where applicants would provide a target time
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The .PW Registry, a Directi Business that is launching the .PW ccTLD (Palau) globally, has announced a coopration with NameJet and AfterNIC to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions and offer premium name distribution. This relaunch of the country code is aimed at professionals and businesses around the world. NameJet and Afternic will provide ....
As reported by DomainIncite, Stephane Van Gelder is leaving Group NBT at the end of this year. Van Gelder had co-founded the registrar Indom, which was purchase by Group NBT two years ago for about $22 MM. He also served as chair of ICANN?s Generic Names Supporting Organization Council (GNSO) until October 2012. With his
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Eleanor Bradley, former Director of Operations for Nominet has been appointed to the role of Chief Operating Office (COO) for the UK registry. She also joined the Nominet board. [via Nominet News]
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The following is a guest post by Kate Moran of TM.Biz, .PW's trademark validation agent. As you may know, on December 3rd .pw (the ccTLD for Palau) kicked off its sunrise offering. It is a relaunch of a country-code to the general public – however, equally noteable is that it is one of the first
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This week, 900 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.52 million. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: endgame.com at 80,000 USD Top ccTLD: k1.de at 12,000 EUR Top ?other? TLD: stromrechner.net at 9,100 EUR See the full
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Since many domain investors keep lists of domains ready to purchase when there are specials available, we figured we'd let you know about a current special that one of the early registrars, AIT Domains, is running for a limited time. You can register or transfer any COM, NET, ORG, INFO, BIZ or US domains for
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As reported by TechCrunch Investing.com was bought for $2.45 Million USD by Virgin Island based?Forexpros/Fusion Media Ltd. As TechCrunch writes, with the purchase, Forexpros will today launch a global financial portal under the Investing.com URL, where it plans to offer a free resource for novice and semi-professional traders and investors to find...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Dec. 11, 2012) — Go Daddy, the world's largest provider of Web hosting, domain name registrations and new SSL Certificates, today announced Blake Irving, formerly a long time Microsoft executive and Chief Product Officer of Yahoo! Incorporated ("Yahoo"), will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), effective Jan...
As announced last week, Melissa Dafni joined Above.com.?Melissa is a veteran in the domain industry. She has extensive experience around all three of the major components offered by the Above Investor Platform – domain monetization management, domain name registration and the domain auction marketplace. Prior to joining Above.com, Melissa ser...
Here's is Sedo's weekly sales report – highlights of public sales include: Top .com: hotelsguide.com at 60,000 USD Top ccTLD: verzuimmanagement.nl at 12,100 EUR Top ?other? TLD: roulette.biz at 6,750 EUR As The Domains points out the sales report includes Internet-Traffic.com sold for $1,000, which is similar to Frank Schilling's domain monet...
According to a Reuters release United States and European authorities seized 132 domain names. According to DNN's knowledge this is the first time that an international cooperation in order to seize domain names happened like this: ICE agents seized 101 domain names in the United States and 31 were taken over by officers in Britain,
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The applicant who recently launched their preregistration and information site about .AUTO, also launched a site for their application for .FOOD. There are two other applicants for the same TLD. And in order to avoid having to report the trickle of the other releases, here are some of the other sites for this applicant's TLDs:
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Earlier today Domain Guardians released a list of big brands that are using Premium Domain names on their website. The Domain Guardians team writes about the list on Facebook: Together with a number of industry peers, we have compiled a list of major companies that have acquired and own premium domain names. Thanks to
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Just in time for Black Friday, Frank Schilling's Registry company, Uniregistry, has launched a site for their application for the .Blackfriday TLD. Uniregistry is the sole applicant for this TLD. The site says about the purpose of the .blackfriday TLD: .blackfriday will become the recognized label for websites with worthwhile deals and specials on ...
CIRA passes 2 Million Registered Domains As per a tweet from the .CA registry, ?the registry passed the 2 Million domain mark yesterday. However with today being a Wednesday, that number has dropped below the 2 Million mark again, as the registry drops deleted domain names in their "to be released" process once a week.
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DomainTools released an info graphic on whois privacylast week and we wanted to make sure that you didn't miss it. DomainTools went through their data and identified 130 different privacy services across almost 225 million unique domain name Whois records. Almost 32 million domains were identified as private, or about 15% of the total population
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As announced on the Elephant Traffic website, Team Internet, parent company of ParkingCrew has purchased the customers and brand from Elephant Traffic as of November 16th, 2012. The traffic publishers of Elephant Traffic will be migrated to ParkingCrew where they now have access to the following features: High-performing tier 1 ad feed for d...
This week Sedo announced 948 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling just under $1.6 million. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: gamepedia.com at 15,000 EUR Top ccTLD: jobcentre.co.uk at 27,500 USD Top ?other? TLD: good.net at 26,500 USD
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Are you confused by the new TLDs? Don't worry, this video will sort it all out for you. The was already posted in July of this year. For the full info see the creator's post at?http://depraved.new.world.of.internet.domains.scares.me/ . [Hat tip to Daniel Eisenhut of EuroDNS]
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Can't Sell your domain? Sell a website-builder and hosting package instead and generate ongoing revenue When?researching?an old list of long tail domain names that I had generated eons ago, I noticed a domain "SoyMilkRecipe.com" that was parked with Frank Schillings's Internet Traffic, but displayed a different banner on top: Claim the premium doma...
Dot Auto, LLC, one of the four applicants for the .AUTO gTLD (the other ones are Donuts, Fegistry, LLC and Uniregistry) has started their marketing for a potential launch of the gTLD, before they even know any results of the evaluation phase. The company launched .autoDOMAINIA, a "pre-registration and awareness solution". The press release tries
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As per an announcement from ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade, Kurt Pritz, former Chief Strategy Officer at ICANN and gTLD specialist has resigned from ICANN. Until Pritz became Chief Strategy officer in October he was Vice President for Stakeholder Relations. During the new gTLD program he was the key person presenting many of the facts of
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The SnapNames Year End auction ends today at?12:15 PM PST (3:15 PM EST) – in about five hours. Here are the listed domains with their current bids:
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A Christmas gift from ICANN to new gTLD applicants? Information from today's ICANN teleconference for new gTLD applicants. The new gTLD draw will take place on December 17th, 2012 (afternoon) Tickets for the draw have to be purchased before that date. Tickets will be for sale from December 12th to the morning of December 17th
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It's not a major news story, but Sedo has finally decided to include the offer price in emails they send to domain owners . In the past, when Sedo emailed a domain owner about an offer that has been received, they did not send the offer price. ?The email simply stated : "We are pleased
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This is a guest post by Kevin Ohashi.?Kevin is a 10 year veteran of the domain industry. He currently is working his?startup, Review Signal, which transforms the opinions people?share publicly on social media into a review site for consumers. It currently provides web?hosting reviews and will review domain registrars soon. I was reading Mark Cuban'...
Sedo's weekly domain sales report has been published for the week ending yesterday, November 12th, 2012. This week, 919 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.2 million.?Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: paste.com at 100,000 USD Top
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Panama City, Panama ? November 13, 2012 – Tess Diaz, one of Go Daddy's most tenured and trusted Executive Account Managers for the past 6 1/2 years, has accepted a new Coordinator of Business Development position with the Domain Name Brokerage Firm Media Options. In addition to offering premium domain brokerage services, Media Options operate...
The French domain registrar Rapidomaine.fr. announced today that they obtained the Trusted Shops Trustmark certification. Trusted Shops, leading service provider for secure online shopping in Europe, announces the certification of the site rapidomaine.fr:? legal compliance and refund guarantee secured. In order to join the circle of e-commerce site...
Remaining Sedo Founders To Leave After 12 Years After Sedo (FRA:SDO)'s CEO and co-founder, Tim Schumacher, left earlier this year, the company?today announced changes to its executive team including the planned departure of three co-founders and the company?s chief sales officer. The transitions will take place during the first quarter of 2013, whe...
Sedo Weekly Sales Report up to October 29th, 2012 This week, 892 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling nearly $2.3 million. Over 38% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: calcio.com at 50,000 EUR Top ccTLD: webhosting.co.uk at 500,000 USD Top
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New charity to provide hearing aids to those who cannot afford them Ken Hansen, Senior Direct Business Development and General Manager for .NYC,? is a not a newcomer to the domain industry, he's been working in Telecommunications and with domain names for a long time. Inspired by his own need to wear a hearing aid
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