Although Sedo.com just published it weekly list of sale just an hour ago, two new domain sales just crossed the Sedo wire. The domain name Sommerhus.dk just sold for 87,500 Euro's or about $115,000. .Dk is the ccTLD for Demark. sommerhus is Danish for the word Summer in english Hot.net sold for 56,750 Euro's or just about 75,000 The seller of Hot.net appears to be Digital Dataflow … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2012
Sedo.com Sells $1.5MM+ In Domains
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending April 23. In all over $1.5MM of domains were sold. The top seller was gameglobe.com at $50,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were geschenkideen.de for €50,000 & racenet.com for $29,412. One of our domain names was 3rd on the top list of .com's, assetprotectionsystem.com $24,998 In all 847 domains were … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.01MM In Domains Led By GreenJuice.com At $35K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,014,184 for the week ending April 22. The publicly reportable sales were led by GreenJuice.com at $35K, followed by pinmyride.com and beenz.com each at $20K. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
33 Inducted Into The Internet Hall of Fame Including The Chairman Of ICANN Steve Crocker
33 people were just inducted as the inaugural group into the Internet Hall of Fame. Included in the group is the current Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker. "Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the ARPANET and laid the foundation for … [Read more...]
ICANN’s Public Comment Period On Renewal Of Verisign Contract Closes Thursday
ICANN public comment period for the .com Registry Agreement renewal ends on Thursday April 26th. As you know, under the terms of the renewal contract Verisign will be able to raise their wholesale price on .com registration 7% in 4 out of the next 6 years. You can submit you comments on the contract to com-renewal@icann.org. You will get an email from ICANN acknowledging the comment … [Read more...]
Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders
Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD's. (You can watch the interview here) "We have nearly 250,000 .XXX domain names under management, our 5 year forecasts were 125,000-150,000, so in 4 or 5 months of operations we have achieved our 5 year goal, so it … [Read more...]
Cnet Does Feature Story On Mike Mann: “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours”
Cnet.comjust published a feature story all about the Mann, Mike Mann. The story entitled "Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours" recounts how Mike Mann started in the domain business, built and sold BuyDomains and now seems to have done it all over again with DomainMarket.com. Some of the more interesting parts from the story for me were: Mike Mann still owns 15% of … [Read more...]