Afternic’s just issued it's weekly domain sales for the week of 3/18/13 – 3/24/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,056,772. All sales were led by .tv domain name, ULive.tv which sold for $27,000 Here are the reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.3 Million
Sedo just published its weekly report. In all 782 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.3m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .com: mychoco.com at 23,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: ribose.com.br at 10,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: imagenes.net at 12,000 … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales Is Hiring (But You Have To Move To The Cayman’s)
We just got a note from Mr. Frank Schilling to put the word out that DomainNameSales is hiring 4-6 domain name brokers, the one catch is you have to move to the Cayman's (sorry about that) Here is what Mr. Schilling told TheDomains.com: "We are open to hiring existing brokers not tied down to industry specific non-competes, or domain experienced customer service staff who would like to make … [Read more...]
.PW To Release Two Letter/Character Domains On First Come, First Served Basis
According to DomainMonster.com the .PW registry has released making hundreds of 2-character domain names including many two letter .PW domains to be registered on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 10:00 UTC 28th March 2013. DomainMonster.com is allowing for preorders right now. Once live all of the domain names can be registered at any of the 100 + domain name registrars that … [Read more...]
Should Verisign’s Attempt To Get .Co Bar Its Objections To .Cam & The Rest?
Now that we published the objection filed by Verisign to .Cam as being to similar to .Com, along with the supporting documents, I have been asked what my opinion is on the objection, which is likely to be duplicated in large part when we see Verisign's objections to .Vet, .Company, .Network and .Bom and maybe many more. I think Verisign raises some good points regarding confusion between .cam … [Read more...]
Return of the Mini-Site? Google Stops Its Domain Blocking Tool
Google has discontinued its domain blocking tool (known as The Blocked Sites feature") i The tool would allow internet users could elect not to see results of say parked pages or content farm pages in their search results when logged into Google. Google says users can still block particular sites from your search results, we recommend the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension from … [Read more...]
Here Are the Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam:
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign had filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. Last night we published Verisign's objection to .Cam as being too close to .Com In support of their objection, Verisign provided the Centere with two … [Read more...]