Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of March 17th - March 23rd 2014 All sales for the week totaled $1,904,435. The top .com sale was lCatterton.com for $25,000 followed by AmericanNational.com for $20,000. I'm going to guess that Catterton.com probably was bought by the large private equity firm, Catterton Partners The top non-com sale lead by sna.net for … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2014
Meet The 1st .Email Cybersquatter Grabs Up ESPN, Pepsi, Starbucks, Chevrolet, NFL & More
We just went through the zone file for the .email new gTLD to see what interesting new domain registrations I found. I couldn't help miss the registrations by a organization out of Los Alamitos, CA named Viva Las Vegas who wound up getting a great domain in LasVegas.email, but went after and got domain names matching some trademarked and well known companies. It should be noted all these … [Read more...]
TMCH Has Caused More People Not To Register 450K Domains, As New gTLD’s Pass 350K
The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) said today that is has delivered 500,000 Claims Notices (CNIS) of which 95% of the queries for trademark terms are not being followed through to a live registration. That means that up to 475,000 new gTLD domain names may have gone unregistered due to the THCM, let discount that number for some potential duplicate domains and call it 450,000 domain names A … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling Sells iAcademy.com for $55,000
Last week it was iMeeting.com selling for $47,750 on Sedo and today Afternic reported on their website the sale of iAcademy.com for $55,000. The domain was sold by Frank Schilling and his company Name Administration. The domain was registered in November of 2001 and the farthest Domain Tools goes back in whois history is 2005 and Name Administration was the registrant. Interestingly … [Read more...]
Bad Decision: HugeDomains.com Turns Down $6K & Loses Generic Domain In UDRP
Austin Pain Association (“Complainant”), just won control of the domain name AustinPain.com which was owned by HugeDomains.com As someone who is the subject of UDRP complainants as well (2 pending) it brings me no joy to report on these cases, but the cases are the cases and in this case HugeDomains.com lost control of AustinPain.com which the panel acknowledged was generic in nature and for … [Read more...]
Go Daddy Closing the Go Daddy Direct Affiliate Program
Go Daddy is closing its Direct Affiliate Program Here is the email I received: Dear Raymond Hackney, After months of compiling data, projecting development timelines and deciding how to best serve our Affiliates' needs, we have decided to close the GoDaddy Direct Affiliate Program. I want to thank you for your participation and I hope you join one of our programs in CJ Affiliate … [Read more...]
Secure Domain Foundation Launches Backed By Facebook, Verizon, Verisign, Rightside, .Ca, .Co, DomainTools, Blacknight
Experts and companies in the information security industry formed the Secure Domain Foundation (SDF), a non-profit, community-driven organization devoted to the identification and prevention of Internet cyber crime utilizing the DNS and launched it at the ICANN’s 49th Public Meeting. The SDF is backed by : Facebook, Verizon, Verisign, Rightside which owns Enom and Name.com, CIRA(.ca), CO … [Read more...]