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The .ORG registry, PIR, announced that it has recently passed the 9 Million Registration Mark, citing a 10.3% growth over 2010. "Hitting the 9 million registration mark is a testament to both .ORG?s reputation and its impact within the Internet community," said Brian Cute, CEO of .ORG, The Public Interest Registry. ".ORG remains a community-driven...
auDA, the .AU domain administrator, has recently found that a reseller for the NetRegistry Group, NetAlliance Pty Ltd trading as NetFleet, has breached the .au Domain Name Suppliers? Code of Practice (2004-04) by mass emailing 1,200 clients of another .AU drop catching service (Dark Blue Sea owned drop.com.au). The email addresses had apparently be...
Some highlights from the weekly sales lists of selected domain sales?by?Sedo over the course of the previous week: SketchBook.com ($50,000 USD) is currently held with the CSC registrar, hinting at a purchase through a large corporate buyer. EmailSignature.com ($25,000 USD) appears to have been bought by Danish BrandedMails, currently operating unde...
The LA Times is reporting that Los Angeles health officials have discovered the Legionella bacteria in a water source at the famous Playboy Mansion. ?In case you haven't been following the story, hundreds of Domain Fest attendees reported symptoms similar to those common in cases of Legionnaires and Pontiac Fever after attending Domain Fest events....
This week's top 5 reported sales at Sedo this week were: GamesForGirls.com at $500,000 USD tz.com $80,000 USD chinastock.com $50,000 USD myshow.com $51,250 USD fashionette.com $35,000 USD MyShow.com now is a Australian based video website. The other domains are either still parked or in Escrow. See the full list of reported sales at Sedo including...
The Sale of Sex.com has now been entered into the Guinness Book of World Records. The entry is currently listed online only, but will be included in the next print edition. The domain name was sold for $13 million USD by Escom LLC to Clover Holdings Ltd on 17 November 2010. Sedo brokered the sale.
While at DOMAINfest we were surprised to meet Miguel Fiol, the founder of Boxcar and main brain behind DomainConsultant, at an early breakfast. Those who know him know that he usually does not hit the conference circuit before noon. But it was even more interesting to see him bear gifts – a Boxcar domain auction
As reported before, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has taken to seizing domain names when it sees potential copyright infringement or other unlawful items. On February 15th, as part of their "Operation Protect Our Children", they seized another ten domain names. According to Torrentfreak, this included the domain mooo.com, which is ...
According to an email by David A. Olive, Vice President, Policy Development Support at ICANN, sent to the GNSO mailinglist , ICANN will move it's 41st public meeting from Jordan due to security concerns. The meeting will be held from June 19th to 24th, 2011. A formal announcement from ICANN is to follow. Rumors cite
After DomainTools was purchased by Thought Convergence in 2008 many things happened. A settled lawsuit, forming it up as a separate company, a new Board of Advisors, new office space and 30% new employees. And now the company relaunched their website. ?An enormous amount of work went into rebuilding our core infrastructure in 2010, an
Highlights include award.com leading .COM sales at 56,005 USD, reiseziele.de (travel destinations in German) leading ccTLDs at 20,000 EUR (appx. $27,000 USD), and musik.org (music in German) leading the other category at 11,000 EUR (appx. $15,000 USD). See the full sales report after the jump.
Once again Afternic was kind enough to share a selection of their top domain sales through their network during the previous week. The domain names sold originate from the company's Buydomains portfolio and clients. 115 domain name sales that sold for $2k or more 17 domain name sales that sold for $5k or more 8
According to an email just sent out by SnapNames the pricing for backordering deletion domain names will increase from $59 to $69 starting tomorrow. See the full text of the email below: On February 15, SnapNames will raise the starting bid for backorders for all deleting domain names from $59 to $69. This starting bid
It sounds like something from an episode of CSI: Hollywood Hills. Enter a group of young professionals partying it up at a fund-rasier at the famous Playboy Mansion. ?Cut ahead 24-hours, and one of the "guests" is writhing in pain, sweating feverishly in his hotel room (and he's not on his computer chasing after a
LA County health officials have sent out an email to attendees of DomainFest asking attendees of the event to fill out a survey if they are experiencing any respiratory issues since attending the conference. Please take the time to fill out the survey or if you know an attendee who may be sick , please
Just like Adam and myself a number of other attendees (over 75 according to DNN's own count) have fallen after attending last week's DOMAINfest in Santa Monica with a variety of diagnosis and treatments. Tonight a spokeperson for DOMAINfest Organizer Domainsponsor and its parent company Oversee.net issued the following statement: DomainSponsor, the...
DNN received several reports during the Super Bowl that Godaddy had removed Premium Listings from being displayed. ?Elliot's Blog made mention of this possibility and today we received confirmation from Paul Nicks, Director of Godaddy Aftermarket, that the company did indeed pull Premium Listings during the Super Bowl. Nicks confirmed that the list...
We are live blogging the auction results of the DOMAINfest Global 2011 Live low/no reserve domain auction held in Santa Monica by Moniker/Snapnames today. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Any unsold names will be sold in the extended silent auction until Thursday, Feb 17 at 3:15pm ET (12:15pm PT).
We are live blogging the auction results of the DOMAINfest Global 2011 Live low/no reserve domain auction held in Santa Monica by Moniker/Snapnames today. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Any unsold names will be sold in the extended silent auction. See the full live low/no reserve live auction results
Highlights include action.com leading .COM sales at 240,000 USD, the package of gay.de and gay.at leading ccTLDs at 165,000 EUR (228,00 USD), and sofas.net leading the other category at 18,450 USD. See the full list after the jump. (c) 2011 DomainNameNews.com (1) Advertisement We buy Domains! We are interested in Acquiring your premium domains! Cli...
As officially announced in a press release this morning, industry veterans Monte Cahn and? Michael Berkens have partnered up to found Right Of The Dot. The new firm is an Internet consulting and advisement firm specializing in new and existing TLD strategy, board advisement, premium domain and market positioning, sales and services. Monte Cahn had...
As announced in a press release this morning, Oversee.net has acquired ShopWiki to expand its portfolio of websites that help consumers make informed purchase decisions. ShopWiki is a international internet shopping comparison search engine which was founded in 2005 and was majority owned by the growth equity firm Generation Partners. The company c...
DNN received an email tonight from Mike Robertson and Jen Sale from Dark Blue Sea (aka?Fabulous.com) that they have jointly resigned from their positions. ?They will stay on board for a handover period that should end by February 28th.?The down-under duo won't be disappearing from the domain space any time soon though. ?They have plans
Highlights include 06.com leading .COM sales at 91,888 USD, nordgold.eu (nothern gold in German) leading ccTLDs at 25,000 EUR (appx. $34,000 USD), and skyport.net leading the other category at 10,000 USD. See the full list after the jump. (c) 2011 DomainNameNews.com (7) Advertisement DomainConvergence 2011, May 12-13, Montreal, Canada
When iWhois.com had a sudden change in its interface at the end of last week, many of its loyal users were surprised. DNN dug deeper and found out that there was also an ownership change behind the scene. The sales price has not been disclosed. The new owner, industry veteran Richard Lau (who also is
As announced in a press release today, DNN's managing editor, Frank Michlick, has joined Left of The Dot Media, Inc. as the company's Chief Technology Officer. He will continue his work at DNN. From the Press Release: Left of the Dot has developed a platform to enable premium domain name holders to lease sub-domain inventory
This week's sales report includes the following highlights: Webhostingcase.com leading .COM sales at 44,000 USD, tuttoauto.it (all cars in Italian) leading ccTLDs at 33,600 EUR (appx. 45,000 USD), and real-estate.asia leading the other category at 10,500 EUR (appx. 14,000 USD). We are still waiting on clarification from Sedo ifthe sale of WebHostin...
Here are the latest reported Domain Sales from Afternic for week two of 2011. Six reportable domain names that sold at the 5-figure mark, led by MAAC.com which sold to Mid-America Apartment Communities, a publicly traded REIT, for $63,000. They had been (are are still) using MAAC.net. In a very fitting sale for this week's
Apparently, the news is not just that James Tuplin, the Director of Operations, in the UK is leaving NameDrive, as The Domains reports, but there's bigger things happening. The first hint at this came from a rumor posted on Facing The Absurd in October 2010 during DOMAINfest Prague stating that KeySystems is buying NameDrive. Back
According to a report issued by Netcraft Ltd., a leading industry analyst, Go Daddy now issues approximately 50 percent of net new SSL certificates.? The report also cited "strong progress" for Go Daddy's Extended Validation SSL certificates, which more than doubled in market share over the past year, rising from 4.2 percent to 9 percent....
.ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) — manager of the world's third largest generic top-level domain — today appointed Mr. Brian Cute as chief executive officer. With more than 12 years of experience in the Internet and communications industry, Mr. Cute will assume his leadership position on February 1, 2011. Prior to joining PIR, M...
Ron Sheridan of RSS.com (and formerly Oversee.net) got together with Jonathan Stanfill of SnapNames to organize the first Portland domainer meeting on January 25th, 2011. This is the kick off event for the PortlandDomainers.com networking group. The group is for internet domain investors, developers, and other related internet industry professional...
Oversee.net announced today that they hired Scott Morrow as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for their vertical markets division. This division manages and operates a number of sites, such as LowFares.com and CreditCards.org. Oversee CEO and President Jeff Kupietzky told DNN that the move to expand its vertical markets strategy is a na...
According to Bloomberg Demand Media plans to raise $120 million selling shares for $14 to $16 in their IPO scheduled for January 25th, 2011. The company, run by co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer Richard Rosenblatt, has now cleared its final SEC hurdle and set the IPO date and pricing. The IPO had stalled in
In the currently ongoing Nominet Sunrise phase for the release of "reserved short domains" (single and double letter of third level .uk) domain names (DNN reported previously) American Airlines missed out on getting aa.co.uk during the Sunrise phase. According to the sunrise whois, there were four applications for the domain name so far: American A...
While Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of FaceBook had revealed on November 15th, 2010 that his company had purchased FB.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation, he did not reveal the purchase price. However the Bureau revealed today on their annual meeting that the organization earned $8.5 million USD by selling a couple of domain names. According
The Austrian Registry just crossed the 1,000,000 domain registration mark this morning as reported by DVmag [German]. The registry has run promotions such as the free registration of IDN domains in 2006 or a reduced rate for registrars for new registrations in months of their choice. The registry also is hosting this year's DomainPulse conference...
On January 12, 2011 at 10:00 CET (4am EST), the German Network Information Center, DENIC, will release nine domains for registration: dw.de, e.de, f.de, g.de, hr.de, sr.de, x.de, y.de, z.de The domains are being released following the lifting of a cease and desist that resulted in a temporary injunction. Requests will be accepted on a
Datran Media and Oversee.net have received the Digital Publishing and Advertising Conference (DPAC)'s award for the "Best Email Marketing Campaign" for a project for Oversee.net's LowFares.com site. [via Press Release] (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com (2) Advertisement DomainConvergence 2011, May 12-13, Montreal, Canada
Groupon has addressed a question in their blog titled Why Groupon Isn't in Australia. The short answer is a cybersquatter / competitor has registered Groupon.com.au and the Groupon Pty Ltd business name as well as filed for a trademark for Groupon. The cybersquatter is Scoopon, a Groupon clone, which is owned by two brothers, Gabby
If you're tired of using Excel spreadsheets to come up with new domain ideas, you could try Kevin Ohashi's new and free List Manipulator. The online tool allows you to work with lists of items (not just domains) in the following ways: filter (alpha, alphanumeric, domains) match (contains or does not contain) replace add prefux
This domain sales report includes the last Sales at Sedo completed in 2010 as well as the first sales completed in 2011. Happy New Year. Highlights include podnova.com leading .COM sales at 90,000 USD, ergebnisse.de (results in German) leading ccTLDs at 10,000 EUR (appx $13,300 USD) and onlinekredit.net (Online Credit in German) leading the other...
As reported in November, Media Corp is planning to sell their domain Gambling.com with the help of Sedo in order to fund further acquisitions. According to The Times (paid access) it appears that the reserve has now been set at $9 million USD, which is less than half of the original purchase price for the
Thought Convergence has just opened the registration for their conference, Domain Roundtable, which will be held from March 1st to 4th, 2011 at The Atlantis Hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The first 100 registrants will receive a free pass for one Atlantis activity during the afternoon of the first day of the event.
Despite the limitation of registrations to the 3rd level, it appears that the ccTLD registry (NIRA – Nigeria Internet Registration Association) for the Nigerian .NG TLD has made an exception and allowed for the registration of ThisDay.ng by the publisher of the local newspaper that has used ThisDayOnline.info to date. The site states under th...
According to a note sent by GoDaddy staff to press, yesterday at 6:02pm M.T., The Go Daddy Group, led by flagship registrar GoDaddy.com, now manages more than 45 million domain names on the Internet. GoDaddy is the world's largest domain name registrar and employs nearly 2,900 people. Currently, Go Daddy is registering, renewing or transferring...
Domain Industry blogger and broker at Domain Name firm Moniker, Patrick Rudell, also known as Chef Patrick, has launched a new website at ScienceFiction.com. He purchased the domain name after previous lease owner defaulted for $175,000 USD. The whois still currently shows Domain Capital. Rudell partnered with two sci-fi geek friends, one of which ...
As we had reported earlier this year, Demand Media, parent company of numerous registrars, websites and a domain parking company, was planning to file for an IPO in 2010. According to an article by CNNMoney, the IPO has now stalled due to the regulator's questions regarding Demand Media's accounting practices. The company's CEO, Richard Rosenblatt...
This week the .uk register passed nine million registrations. The 9 millionth domain name, active2011.co.uk, was registered by the Nirvana Spa and Pulse 8 Health & Fitness Club based in Wokingham. 2010 has the .uk registry operator, has seen a net increase of one million domains registered in the last year. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com (2)
After US authorities seized domain names twice earlier this year, a Dutch Anti-Piracy group? (BREIN) has now been able to follow suit and shut down 29 additional sites by working with the MPAA and the sites' hosting providers; in this case the domain names itself were apparently not seized. The last set of seized domain
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