Over the past week, 569 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: pax.com at 200,000 USD Top ccTLD: 1.am at 6,500 USD Top “other” TLD: restaurant.info at 14,300 USD 4 new gtld sales made the sales report, Entrepreneur.Business was the top sale at … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2015
DOMAINfest Is Back; Returns To Europe in June
Introducing DOMAINfest 2015 Sofia! The teams at NamesCon and DomainForum are happy to announce DomainForum and DOMAINfest Sofia, which will be held June 1-3, 2015, marking the exciting return of DOMAINfest to Europe. Having already operated a number of widely … [Read more...]
79% Of The Attendees Of The Collision Startup Conference Using “Risky” Domains
Bill Sweetman President of NameNinja.com, sent out a press release today saying that 79% of 491 Startups that will be participating at the Collision Startup Conference being held in Las Vegas on May 5-6 are using domain names that are counter intuitive and likely pose marketing challenges. Bill also found that more … [Read more...]
StormGuard.com Saved In UDRP
Storm Guard Franchise Systems, LLC v.just lost its bid to grab the domain name StormGuard.com which was just registered on February 6, 2014 The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com A majority of the three member panel of Willem J. H. Leppink, The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was generic and since the registrant was located in South Korea is was unlikely that they knew … [Read more...]
Hosting Co. One.com Winner of .One Gets Equity Investment To Enter US
One.com, which also won the rights to operate the new gTLD .One, announced today that Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm, and ATP Private Equity Partners ("ATP PEP"), one of Europe's largest institutional investors in private equity funds, have completed a growth equity investment in the company. This investment will support One.com's launch into the U.S., its ongoing product … [Read more...]
Looks Like Namejet.com Is Down
I looks like the domain name marketplace Namejet.com is down at the moment. We are getting an error page on three different browsers. We just sent off an email and we will let you know when they are back online. … [Read more...]
CentralNic Post Reports Earnings For 2014: Up Almost 15% in Trading
CentralNic Group (CNIC) today announces its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2014 and shareholders loved the report sending shares up 14.75% in trading today to 35p Shares have a 52 week high of 73p and a low of 23p: Operational highlights Net revenue grew by 99% to £6.07m (2013: £3.05m) - growing revenues from registry, registrar and enterprise services Adjusted EBITDA grew by … [Read more...]