XZ.com leads them all selling for $120,000 plus the Buyers premium made the total cost. 26 out of the 68 lots sold, (excuse the initial headline when I copied and pasted originally a few of the sales showed up twice when I counted them) I thought it was really cool, logged in watched it live, the auctioneer I thought she was very good. Congrats to Aron all auctions should be like this for those … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2013
GAC Communiqué: Wants To Look At “Public Policy Implications of Holding Auctions to Resolve String Contention”
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just issued its Buenos Aires Communiqué from the ICANN Meeting and "requests a briefing on the public policy implications of holding auctions to resolve string contention (including community applications)". The GAC considers that new gTLD registry operators should be made aware … [Read more...]
Verisign Publishes Last Part Of Series On Possible Domain Collision: “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”
Verisign Published its final part of its 4 part series on domain collision and the new gTLD program entitled "SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback"on the final day of the ICANN Meeting in Argentina. Here it is: "ICANN’s second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause “severe harm,” … [Read more...]
Tasty: Yahoo Sells Sandwich.com For $137,500 On Sedo
Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich for $137,500 on Sedo today as part of its themed auction. Only a handful of domains seemed to hit reserve and sell with Sandwich.com being highest sale by far. Sandwich.com has a reserve range of $50,000-$99,999 The domain name was first registered on July 3rd, 1997. The most active domain name in the auction was PostAJob.com had over125 bids and … [Read more...]
New gTLD .UNO Selects Sedo For Sunrise & Landrush Auctions & Broker Premium Domains
Dot Latin LLC who is the registry for the new gTLD .Uno has selected Sedo, to conduct sunrise and landrush auctions, define a premium list of the extension’s most valuable assets and provide brokerage and additional auctions for its premium domains. Godaddy.com is already accepting pre-registrations for .Uno domain names starting at $39.99 a year Dot Latin established .UNO to … [Read more...]
Famous Four Media Selects Sedo For Auctions & Brokerage of Premium Domains
Famous Four Media (FFM), today announced its has selected Sedo.com to conduct auctions, privately broker premium names and promote the different extensions under FFM’s management. FFM was one of the most active participants in the program, applying to manage 57 new gTLDs. I n the coming months, FFM will begin making 12 of these extensions available to the public, … [Read more...]
15 Year Old Wolfpack.com “One of The Best Domains on The Internet” For Sale For $60K Hit With UDRP
A UDRP has just been filed against the domain name Wolfpack.com. Wolfpack.com is a dictionary term which means "a group of wolves that live, feed, and travel as a family group" The domain is going to a for sale page which says: "One of the Best domains on the Internet Wolfpack is for sale for purchase $60,000 O.B.O. The domain is owned by The Ascot Group, Inc of California which … [Read more...]