Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday June 26th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $695,523. The top seller of the week was SellCar.com at $26,056 followed by MonarchMortgage.com and Yearbook.org - each selling for $15,000. Here is the complete list of sales: .Com Sales … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2011
CNBC: Zynga To File For IPO As Early As Tomorrow
According to a Tweet by Kate Kelly of CNBC the gaming company Zynga will file to go public as soon as tomorrow. The company who has also been active in the domain name market and maker of some of the most popular online games including; Cityville Farmville and Rewardville according to the report will file its S-1 as early as tomorrow. At the proposed IPO price the company would be valued … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells Wellnessfinder.com For $210K
Sedo.com just sold the The domain name Wellnessfinder.com for a whopping 150,000 Euro's or around $210,000. The domain is already going to a site with a trademark up on it for the term Wellness Finder. The domain was owned by a company Wellnessfinder e.K. in Germany and the buyer is TOP International Hotels GmbH. It would be interesting to know if the sale included the trademark. In … [Read more...]
New York Passes Gay Marriage (.com): Will .Gay Be Approved As A Community Application Or Will It Go To The Highest Bidder?
As most of you know by now, New York has become the newest state to legalize gay marriage. As the owner of GayMarriage.com we have been following the story closely and now all eyes in the domain world will turn towards the new gTLD .Gay. Its no secret that a group lead by domainer Alexander Schubert is going to apply to operate the .Gay registry based off a community application. Why try … [Read more...]
Wow What A Difference Between ICANN San Francisco & Singapore: The United States Could Learn A Lot From Singapore
Singapore is one of those places I probably would never have visited if not to attend the ICANN meeting which just concluded this week. I'm certainly glad I had the opportunity. The last ICANN meeting in March of 2011, was held in San Francisco and the comparison between those two cities is remarkable. Travel is always mind expanding for me. To see how other people live, learn about … [Read more...]
FBI Seizes Servers at Digital One In US, “Taking Tens of Clients Sites Down” When Only Wanting 1
The New York Times reported a few days ago that "The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data center early Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including those run by the New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline." "The raid happened at 1:15 a.m. at a hosting facility in Reston, Va., used by DigitalOne, which is based in Switzerland." "In an e-mail to one of its clients on … [Read more...]
Tucows & Demand Shares Benefit From Godaddy.com Reported Buyout
Shares of both Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) and Tucows (TCX) had nice gains in the stock market on Friday following on the heals of the pending sale of Godaddy.com for up to $2.5 Billion which is expected to be announced officially on Tuesday. As we reported in our story about the possible sale of Godaddy.com earlier today, Demand which had previously been seen as some as overvalued at a market cap … [Read more...]