The news broke last night that ICANN was opening the public comment period on the renewal of the contract with Verisign (current one expires at the end of this year) which once again would give Verisign a 6 year contract to operate the registry with a right to raise prices in 4 of the 6 years of its choice 7% compounded. Back almost a year ago we wrote a story entitled What The Settlement Of … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2012
Afternic.com Sells $1.01MM In Domains Led By ChessStore.com At $11K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,011,383 for the week ending March 25th. The publicly reportable sales were led by ChessStore.com at $11,000 followed by SSDFirm.com at $8,900. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells $1.6MM In Domains Led By End.com At $100K
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data for the week ending March 26th. In all $1.6MM of domains were sold. The top reportable sale was End.com at $100,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were online-games.com at $48,000 followed by myinvest.com for $35,000. In all 981 domains were sold. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective … [Read more...]
.XXX Registrations Go On Sale For Two Weeks
It seems that the cost of registering a .XXX domain name is going on sale for a limited time at just a few registrars. Moniker.com just announced it was reducing the price of a .XXX registration from $98 to $69 from only Match 26th- April 9th a 30% savings. According to a press release this morning, EuroDns.com is reducing the price to 29,99 Euro's, which is around $40 but when I went to the … [Read more...]
Another Family Business Secures A Category Killer As Nutsonline.com Acquires Nuts.com
In a story that reminds me a lot of the family business that acquired Candy.com, a family business that has been in operation for 82 years and since 1999 was operating online under the domain name NutsOnline.com acquired the category killer domain name Nuts.com. It looks like they got the domain mid last year and it is currently registered to Newark Nut Store, Inc of Cranford, New Jersey. We … [Read more...]
Star Jones Becomes Lastest Celebrity To Lose Her Domain Name As StarJones.com Deletes Today
Star Jones has become the latest celebrity to lose the domain name of her official site, as today the domain name StarJones.com is being deleted by the central registry and dropped. In the past year we have covered stories of celebrities and athletes, or their management company's who have let their domain names expire, including MichaelVick.com and BustaRhymes.com. The domain name … [Read more...]
NameCheap.com Is Giving Away $3K To Person That Registers the 3 Millionth Domain + 2K Free Domains
NameCheap.com just announced that it will be giving away $3,000 to the person or company that "registers" the three millionth domain name on NameCheap.com NameCheap.com, is quick approaching the 3 Million mark for domains under registration according to the counter on the site, NameCheap.com has over 2,990,990 domains under management so they are about 9,000 registrations from reaching the 3 … [Read more...]