According to a press release by the ICM Registry, sponsors of the .XXX TLD, the Sunrise period closed today for the .XXX extension, with over 80,000 applications submitted for domain names. We believe this is by far the largest number of Sunrise applications ever submitted for a new TLD, even surpassing other launches of new extensions considered to be extremely successfully. The Sunrise … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
Look.com Sold By Banks.com
Banks.com has just announced that they have sold the domain Look.com The buyer appears to be Quidsi, Inc. of Jersey City New Jersey. It was just earlier this month that we wrote about the domain name Look.com going up for sale. The purchase price was not disclosed. The domain was up in a Sedo.com auction earlier this year with a reserve range of $500K-$999K but did not sell. Here is … [Read more...]
Godaddy Likes The E-PARASITE Bill & TechDirt.com Rips Them
Over the weekend, Christine Jones general counsel and corporate secretary of GoDaddy.com wrote a piece that appeared in Politico.com in support of the E-Parasite Bill. In the piece Ms. Jones write in part: ""It's a welcome step in the right direction, and we at GoDaddy.com applaud the leadership in the House Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, … [Read more...]
Sora.com Sells For $21K on NameJet.com
The domain name Sora.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for a whopping $21,300. The domain was a dropped domain that was most recently owned by St. Onge, Ruff and Associates, Inc. of York PA. There were 4 bidders in the auction which bid $10,000 or more for the domain In a few other sales 1851.com sold for $2,300 hawaiifun.com $2,251 Nailschool.com sold for $1,777 Fcp.org … [Read more...]
Amazon Lands Z.cn As A Shortener In China Which Reminds Us They Haven’t Launched Their .Co Domains
Amazon announced today its changing its brand name it uses in China from Joyo Amazon to Amazon China. Amazon also announced that it has obtained the domain name Z.cn, which is re-directing to Amazon's Chinese official website at Amazon.cn. According to the one story I found on the domain, there was no discussion of how Amazon obtained the domain or how much they paid for it. The domain … [Read more...]
Klout: How The $40 Million Dollar Company, Bought its Domain Name Klout.com For $5,000 Cash
TechCrunch.com just covered the story of how the tech company Klout obtained the domain name Klout.com for $5,000 cash. And when they say cash, they mean cash in an envelope. According to CrunchBase, Klout has received $40 million in funding so far. Prior to obtaining the .com domain, the company used Klout.net for it's site. Click here to read the entire story. … [Read more...]
Solo.com Sells on Sedo.com For $133,000
The domain name Solo.com just sold for $133,000 on Sedo.com The domain name originally registered in 1994 has been under privacy for years. Back when it was not under privacy the W7 Media Inc was the registered owner of the domain back in 2007 according to DomainTools.com According to their site: "W7 Media invests heavily in intellectual property, namely domain names and provides a … [Read more...]