This is a Guest Post by Seb ICANN is opening the door to a huge mess for companies of all size, SMBs to Fortune 500. Companies were used (should i say forced) to register their company name and brands in all new extensions ICANN would come up with : .eu / .mobi / .asia. These are nothing but defensive registrations, mostly not resolving or simply redirecting to the .com corporate … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2008
Moniker Silent Auction Nets $99K
The silent auction from the Paris Domainers show just concluded and a total of 64 domains were sold for $99K Here is the complete list of all domains that sold Title Bid sprints.com $35,300.00 asj.com $15,300.00 jpv.com … [Read more...]
ICANN Opens Flood Gates To New Extensions
ICANN has unimously voted to allow an unlimited amount of new TLD's, using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters. In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part: """The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able to use easier-to-remember suffixes such as .hotel … [Read more...]
ICANN Vote is Today
ICANN is expected to vote to approve a proposal which will open the flood gates creating an almost unlimited amount of domain extensions. Pricing seems to be set between $100K-$500K for each new extension. Any extension that get more than one proposal will wind up being auctioned off the the highest paying registry. This has already stired talk of some seven figures prices that will be … [Read more...]
Israel.com Price Reduction
I received a note from Moniker.com who informed me that the owner of Israel.com will now consider offers at 4.5 Million and above, which is lowered from the $5.88 Million. If you have interest please contact moniker.com … [Read more...]
Tucows Response to our Post: Not Good Enough and Here’s Why
Today Bill Sweetman, the General Manager, Domain Portfolio of Tucows responded to our post of the other day regarding ethics in drop auctions. Basically Mr. Sweetman repeated much of what he posted the other day on our blog, in response to our initial post. The domains Tucows took back, were owned by Tucows. Tucows released the domains into their own auction by mistake and when they … [Read more...]
Moniker Silent Auction of Paris Domainers Show Set for Friday
The silent auction from the Paris Domainers show starts closing Friday morning at 10am EST, 7am PST at moniker.com There are over 2,000 domains at auction. Here are the top names based on the value placed by Esitbot. There are many low or no reserve 4 letter domains (I know a lot of you like those), most of which are not included here but can be found if you download the entire … [Read more...]