Uniregistry won the new gTLD private auction for .Auto beating out Donuts, long time domain name investor Jay Westerdal's Fegistry, and Dot Auto LLC, which is associated with the company that operates .Uno Donuts also won the new gTLD .Memorial beating Afilias and dotCOOL, which operates the new gTLD .Qpon. Publicly traded Rightside (NAME) won the auction for .RIP which jointly owns certain … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2014
Minds + Machines Reports: Sales Increase 4,114%; Revenue 255%; Shares Are Up 9.5%
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) issued its financial report for the six months ending June 30, 2014 today. Total sales increased 4,114% to £295,000 against £7,000 for the same period in 2013; Operating profit was up 255% at £2.92 million against a 2013 loss of £1.88million, and wound up with £20 Million in the bank as of June 30th up from £9 Million … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Wins .Law & .Vip; Loses 5 Auctions & Pockets $6.2 Million
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announce today that it won the new gTLD auctions for the new domain name extensions .Law and .Vip and lost private auctions for .Design, .Flowers, .Group, .Realestate and .Video and pocketed approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million). The net cash to the Minds + Machines includes the amounts paid for .Vip and .Law, and is also net of … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million
Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: cabs.com at 50,000 USD · Top ccTLD: kfz24.de at 11,500 EUR · Top “other” TLD: uhr.kaufen at 4,200 EUR Domain … [Read more...]
Report: 1,500 .Scot Domain Registered In 1st 60 Seconds; Over 4K Registered in First Hour
More than 1,500 .Scot domain names were registered by members of the public within 60 seconds of the new gTLD launch and over 4,000 were registered in the first hour of the domain becoming available according to a report in thecourier.co.uk. Jesus.scot and Oor Wullie.scot, Braveheart.scot, the45percent.scot, Cocacola.scot and Facebook.scot. One customer registered 20 different .scot … [Read more...]
.RICH & .ONL To Have Its Own Retail Registrar Site To Be Powered By LogicBoxes
LogicBoxes is pleased to announce the partnership with I-Content Ltd., based out of Germany, to initiate the implementation of end-to-end Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs .RICH and .ONL. .RICH is a New gTLD extension that caters to a global community of high net worth individuals and the companies that support them. .ONL (the official … [Read more...]
Godaddy 15%+ .LONDON domains registered outside of the UK; US & Germany Are 8%
According to a press release from Godaddy over 15% of .LONDON domains that were registered through GoDaddy came from outside of the UK. 5.9% of all .London domains registered by Godaddy were registered by people in the United States and 1.9 percent were registered by people or businesses in Germany. Stefano Maruzzi, VP of GoDaddy EMEA, says: “These figures show that London is one of the … [Read more...]