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Domain Name News
Is ICANN crazy? According to GNSO council chair, YES IT IS: “Internet policy at risk!”
Stephane Van Gelder is the current chair of the GNSO (Generic Names Supporting Organization) council, one of ICANN’s major policy making bodies. Stéphane has seen the madness first hand for approximately the past year and a half and has ...
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Is ICANN crazy? According to GNSO council chair, YES IT IS: “Internet policy at risk!”
Stephane Van Gelder is the current chair of the GNSO (Generic Names Supporting Organization) council, one of ICANN’s major policy making bodies. Stéphane has seen the madness first hand for approximately the past year and a half and has ...
Discussion
June 6, 2012, 9:34 am
Domain Shane
Wednesday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around The Internet 6-6-12
FindLoans.com Found this one at Snapnames. I know, hard to believe J4.org There are a few two letter dot orgs today. All two character dot major tlds are liquid JBJJ.com Practical acronym? probably not, but very pretty domain StillA...
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Wednesday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around The Internet 6-6-12
FindLoans.com Found this one at Snapnames. I know, hard to believe J4.org There are a few two letter dot orgs today. All two character dot major tlds are liquid JBJJ.com Practical acronym? probably not, but very pretty domain StillA...
Discussion
June 6, 2012, 6:40 am
Domain Name News
.CA ccTLD 24 hr service outage announced by CIRA, domain management will be heavily impacted
It was just announced by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) that on June 12, 2012, they will be performing a system upgrade to the .CA registry. This upgrade, known as a “middleware implementation” will make it easier for...
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.CA ccTLD 24 hr service outage announced by CIRA, domain management will be heavily impacted
It was just announced by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) that on June 12, 2012, they will be performing a system upgrade to the .CA registry. This upgrade, known as a “middleware implementation” will make it easier for...
Discussion
June 5, 2012, 5:25 pm
The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $940K In Domain Names
Afternic.com just released its sales report for the week ending on June 3rd selling $ 940,686 in domain names. The highest sale of the week was a tie at $10K between WordLink.com and Competencies.com Here are the reportable sales: .com ...
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Afternic.com Sells $940K In Domain Names
Afternic.com just released its sales report for the week ending on June 3rd selling $ 940,686 in domain names. The highest sale of the week was a tie at $10K between WordLink.com and Competencies.com Here are the reportable sales: .com ...
Discussion
June 5, 2012, 5:18 pm
Domain Shane
Sedo’s Weekly Sales: SeIl.It ($24,874) Leads $1.19 Million in Total Sales
Even with summer beginning, Sedo manages to cross the one million dollar mark this week. A domain hack leads all sales with Sell.it selling at 20,000 EUR. Studio.org wasn’t too far behind at $20,000 and Benxi.com led the dot coms at $16K....
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Sedo’s Weekly Sales: SeIl.It ($24,874) Leads $1.19 Million in Total Sales
Even with summer beginning, Sedo manages to cross the one million dollar mark this week. A domain hack leads all sales with Sell.it selling at 20,000 EUR. Studio.org wasn’t too far behind at $20,000 and Benxi.com led the dot coms at $16K....
Discussion
June 5, 2012, 4:27 pm
The Domains
Sedo Sells $1.2 Million In Domains Led By Sell.it at 20,000 Euro’s
This past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.19 million. All sales were led by a very brandable domain hack Sell.it for 20,000 Euro’s approximately $25K 41.1% of total sales were the ...
Discussion
Sedo Sells $1.2 Million In Domains Led By Sell.it at 20,000 Euro’s
This past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.19 million. All sales were led by a very brandable domain hack Sell.it for 20,000 Euro’s approximately $25K 41.1% of total sales were the ...
Discussion
June 5, 2012, 4:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy sold 35,094 aftermarket domains last month
Go Daddy releases monthly stats about aftermarket domain sales. The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report for May is out. Last month the company sold 35,094 domain names through its aftermarket platform. That’s down slightly from 36,103 in Apr...
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Go Daddy sold 35,094 aftermarket domains last month
Go Daddy releases monthly stats about aftermarket domain sales. The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report for May is out. Last month the company sold 35,094 domain names through its aftermarket platform. That’s down slightly from 36,103 in Apr...
Discussion
June 5, 2012, 4:00 pm
The Domains
Natura.TV Beats Back UDRP Challenge
A one person panel has just denied A UDRP on the domain name natura.tv (Nature in Spanish) The Complaint was brought by Natura Cosméticos S/A, which has a trademark on the term Natura. The panel seemed to give a lot of weight to the fact...
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Natura.TV Beats Back UDRP Challenge
A one person panel has just denied A UDRP on the domain name natura.tv (Nature in Spanish) The Complaint was brought by Natura Cosméticos S/A, which has a trademark on the term Natura. The panel seemed to give a lot of weight to the fact...
Discussion
June 5, 2012, 3:46 pm
Domain Shane
4.cn Releases Top 15 Sales for the Month of May: 15 Domains Sell for Total of $1.84 Million
While we domain investors concentrate on English speaking domain markets there is a world of a billion people paying top prices for Chinese word and numeric domains. The DnJournal monthly chart would look a whole lot different if the Chinese di...
Discussion
4.cn Releases Top 15 Sales for the Month of May: 15 Domains Sell for Total of $1.84 Million
While we domain investors concentrate on English speaking domain markets there is a world of a billion people paying top prices for Chinese word and numeric domains. The DnJournal monthly chart would look a whole lot different if the Chinese di...
Discussion
June 5, 2012, 2:35 pm
Elliot's Blog
I Agree With Morgan, But…
Morgan Linton had a very good post today about finding a mentor in the domain industry. There are a few people who invest in domain names who have given me advice over the years, and it’s always been appreciated. There is one thing you really s...
Discussion
I Agree With Morgan, But…
Morgan Linton had a very good post today about finding a mentor in the domain industry. There are a few people who invest in domain names who have given me advice over the years, and it’s always been appreciated. There is one thing you really s...
Discussion
June 5, 2012, 2:18 pm
