Domain News
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The Story of How .CO Became a Commercial Success  The story of how Colombia's ccTLD .CO became a recent success is the focus of a report in The Huffington Post. More...
| Lottery.net Top Sale of Week  Lottery.net was the big seller in Domain Name Journal?s list of top
reported sales for the week to 15 August, selling for $ 220,000 through
Sedo. Second on the list was the only other six-figure sale for the
week, XI.com, which sold for $ 100,930 through Moniker. In third place
was KissingGames.com, just missing out in six-figures, selling for
$ 98,300 in a private sale. More...
| .NZ Consultation on DNSSEC Implementation  With preparations underway for .NZ (New Zealand) to implement DNSSEC,
the .NZ Domain Name Commissioner has commenced a public consultation. More...
| | goMobi content mobilization platform from dotMobi adds new features  dotMobi, a worldwide leader in the development & discovery of quality mobile content and the company behind the .mobi Internet domain, announced additional "requested by developers" features for goMobi?, the world?s first content mobilization platform ? a hybrid of a traditional content management system and a practically automatic mobile website builder. More...
| | Google fights for 32 domain names  Google,the American public corporation has recently submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,claiming rights over 32 domain name . More...
| | OnlineCollegeDegrees.com hits $ 18,000 in Sedo's Marketplace Auction  The auction for OnlineCollegeDegrees.com domain name is live on Sedo. OnlineCollegeDegrees.com received just one bid of $ 18,000 . More...
| | Microsoft wins MSNblocato.com domain name in Arbitration  An arbitration with National Arbitration Froum has awarded the domain name MSNblocato.com to Microsoft.All started when Microsoft submitted a complaint to the National Arbitration Forum,asserting legal rights to the disputed domain name. More...
| | Neustar to Host United States ITU Association Seminar in Washington, D.C.  Neustar announced today that it will host an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) plenipotentiary workshop sponsored by the United States International Telecommunication Union Association (USITUA) on Wednesday, September 8, 2010. More...
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Domain Name News
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The .CA Registry (CIRA) and ?Public Interest? 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 Authority (?CIRA?) [...] More...
| Domainvermarkter Forum Live Auction Results Albeit with a very late start, we‘re were live blogging the auction results of the Domainvermarkter Forum Live domain auction held in Munich, Germany by Moniker/Snapnames today. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. The auction sold 107 domains out of 157 for a total of 75,290 Euro (appx. $ 96,700 USD). [...] More...
| Breaking: Buyers of DomainName.com Registrar Revealed 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 [...] More...
| Sedo Weekly Sales Report, Lead by Angels.com 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). See all of the reported sales after the jump. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Offer: [...] More...
| DomainName.com Registrar Sold by DomainConsultant According to a post on DomainConsultant’s site, the registrar DomainName.com and related assets have been sold today. The buyer and final selling price have not been disclosed. At the same time the company announced an upcoming auction with an 8% commission and is now accepting domain submissions via email to mike (at) domainconsultant.com. Disclaimer: Adam [...] More...
| DomainName.com Registrar & Company to be Auctioned Today [Update] The registrar has been sold. 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 [...] More...
| .ORG Registry CEO/President Alexa Raad Resigns 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. [...] More...
| DomainFest NYC Extended Auction Results, incl. Quotes.com for $ 1,100,000 USD These are the official results of the extended DomainFEST NYC auction, which ended today. The highlight of the extended auction was the sale of Quotes.com for $ 1,100,000 USD. Domain Sale Price quotes.com $ 1,100,000.00 luxuryapartments.com $ 62,500.00 cj.org $ 29,420.00 cashit.com $ 5,890.00 basketballdrills.com $ 1,400.00 messageboards.net $ 1,180.00 okd.net $ 975.00 ivv.net $ 940.00 bridaldresses.net $ 715.00 homecomingdresses.net $ 710.00 financialengineering.com $ 665.00 windowdecor.com $ 590.00 [...] More...
| Targeted TRAFFIC Dublin 2010 Live Auction Results We will be were 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. The auction sold 12 domains for a total of 86,820 Euro, approximately 110,200 USD. [...] More...
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Domain Name Wire
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Sedo Revenue Down But Earnings Up Revenue slides but bottom line improves in first half of year. Revenue at domain name brokerage and parking company Sedo for the first half of 2010 was down compared to the same period last year, but earnings were up. Sedo Holding reported (pdf) revenue of 21.9M EUR for its Sedo division in H1 2010, compared [...] More...
| Bingo.com Ltd Buys Out Bingo.com Payments for $ 900,000 Nearly a century of royalty payments bought out. Bingo.com, Ltd has bought out its remaining royalty payments on the domain name Bingo.com for $ 900,000 in equity. The company had a deal with the prevous owner of the domain (Bingo, Inc) to pay it 4% of gross revenue through 2098. An independent valuation pegged the present [...] More...
| Jason Davis Strikes Again with Recruiter.com Jobs domain pro merges one of his companies with Recruiter.com. Jason Davis has struck another large domain name deal by merging his RecruitingBlogs.com with Recruiter.com. Although technically a merger, Recruiter.com’s domain name was its main contribution to the puzzle. Recruiter.com owner Ashley Saddul will join the merged entity as CTO and founder. I first talked [...] More...
| Juniper Networks Loses Case for Juniper.tv $ 15B company loses UDRP case. Juniper Networks has lost a domain name arbitration case to get the domain juniper.tv. Despite having a market cap of nearly $ 15 billion, the arbitrator noted that it’s entirely plausible that the registrant of the domain name hadn’t heard of the company because it’s a business-to-business company. Also working against [...] More...
| The Truth About NameMedia, Afternic, and BuyDomains Here’s why NameMedia sells more of its own domains than clients’ domains. Every once in a while I feel like going on a rant. So here goes. There’s been a lot of talk on both my blog and others about NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains and AfternicDLS. NameMedia owns its own portfolio of domains which it [...] More...
| Want to Bid on Sex.com? Deposit $ 1 Million. If an auction occurs, expect to put your money where your mouth is. We might never see an auction for Sex.com. But if we do, expect to put up a significant deposit if you wish to bid. Court documents show that the bankruptcy sales procedure for Sex.com will include three phases. In the first phase [...] More...
| World Trademark Review Conducting Survey About New TLDs Survey seeks opinions on new top level domain names. World Trademark Review is currently running a survey to understand attitudes and plans around the launch of new top level domain names. The survey is targeted to three groups: In-house trademark lawyers, private practice trademark lawyers, and marketing, web, and communications professionals. Each group receives slightly [...] More...
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