A couple of weeks ago we told you that the attorney for the victims of a terrorist attack got a federal court to order the seizure of the .IR domain registry which is the ccTLD for Iran to help satisfy a judgement the victims held against the republic of Iran. As first reported by webpronews.com, (The … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2014
HardRock; BMW; Starbucks; BretMichaels & God All .Rocks; Here are the first .Rocks Registrations
.Rocks which goes live into general availability on August 6th, has a little over 200 domains which were registered in Sunrise (Trademark holders) and in the Early Access Program (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a higher fee for early access to domain registrations The cost of a non-premium .Rocks registration is at $14.99 at Godaddy A lot of the registrations are company.rocks or … [Read more...]
Flipkart Raises $1billion in funding – Largest ever for an Indian Internet Company
You may recall a little while back there were all those Flipkart domain purchases in various cctlds, well the company certainly could afford it as they have just completed the largest funding ever by an Indian Internet company. flipkart.ca May 2014 5,000.00 EUR Sedo flipkart.cn April 2014 5,000.00 EUR Sedo flipkart.co.za May 2014 5,000.00 … [Read more...]
ICM Registry Operator of .XXX Wins Rights to The New gTLD .Sex
ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry has won the right to operate the .Sex new gTLD. The other applicant for .Sex, Internet Marketing Solutions Limited has withdrawn their application, leaving ICM's the lone applicant for .Sex. ICM also is the only applicant for the new gTLD's .adult and .porn The only caveat on the new gTLD's .Sex, .Adult and .Porn is that just a few weeks ago, … [Read more...]
Founder of Diapers.com Buys Jet.com From Chernoff, Backed By $55 Million To Take On Amazon
Recode.net, just published a post entitled "The CEO Who Sold Diapers.com to Amazon Raises $55 Million to Challenge Amazon Again" Marc Lore, the former CEO and founder of Diapers.com, which the parent company Quidsi, was sold to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million, has raised $55 million to build out a new e-commerce company called … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.9M But Only 5 .Com’s Sell For 5 Figures
Over the past week, 569 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 Million 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: lurk.com at 18,000 GBP · Top ccTLD: liberty.ch at 21,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: europe.org at 23,000 USD Here are the reportable sales: Domain … [Read more...]
.Toys Launches Wed: O.Toys; Educational.Toys; Pool.Toys, Christmas.Toys Already Registered
.Toys which goes into general availability tomorrow Wednesday July 30th A .Toys non-premium domain registration is priced at $39.95 at Godaddy. We went through the zone file for .Toys and found the more interesting domain names taken in Sunrise (for trademark holders) and during the Early Access Program (EAP) where people can get early access to domain names for a one time fee which can … [Read more...]