Last week we wrote about Holiday.com going on the auction block with an expected sales price north of $30 Million Today other domain names were added to the November travel auction including on auction: Among most expensive domain names Other domain names on auction include Holiday.com, Journey.com, Kuwait.com, Iraq.com, Arab.com and Doha.com and Dubai.net The domains are being auctioned … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
The Curious Case of Weather.id
Namepros member Wot posted a thread a few days back where he asked the community what they thought about a certain situation involving a domain registration and it ending up in the account of the CEO of the registrar. At first he could not give the full details, he has now given the full name and posted the whole story on his blog. From his blog post and Namepros: I “registered” Weather.id … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million
Sedo just listed its transactions report for the past week and in all 556 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million. 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: nki.com at 18,000 USD · Top ccTLD: dh.pl at 15,750 EUR · Top “other” TLD: dolphin.org at 45,000 USD Domain … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Landrush Auctions Start Tomorrow
Over the weekend I got notice that the landrush auctions for Minds + Machines for its first new gTLD's go live tomorrow. We got notice over the weekend that we are in the landrush auction for the following domain names: spear.fishing going.fishing marlin.fishing pro.rodeo The auctions are being handled by Pool.com Each landrush action is scheduled for 7 days. The four auctions … [Read more...]
.Credit; .CreditCard In General Availability Wednesday, Here Are The Taken Domain Names
Two new gTLD's launching this week are pretty closely related, .Credit and .CreditCard and as of publication they have 182 and 130 domains registered respectively, through Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Porgram (EAP) which allow registrants to pay a premium for early registrations prior to general availability (GA). Both of the new gTLD's go into GA on … [Read more...]
Apple May Be Getting Into Mobile Payments & We Just May Have The Perfect Domain For Them
There were a couple of stories out today on Apple getting into the mobile payments business. Apple has a big day coming up on September 9 a news event day where many expect to see the new iPhone 6, there has also been talk of a wearable device. Now there is the possibility according to some in the business that a foray into mobile payments could be on the horizon. Tech Crunch wrote: As Apple … [Read more...]
Pinterest Wins Control PinSex.com With 49 Million Visitors Based On Common Law TM of “Pin”
Pinterest, Inc. just won control over two domain names PinSex.com and PinGay.com which are active sites driving a huge numbers of members and traffic based off a finding that Pinterest had common law rights to the word "pin" The disputed domain name was registered on June 5, 2008. The disputed domain name was registered on May 1, 2011. Pinterest got a US trademark on the term "pin" in … [Read more...]