I just got an email from Namejet.com that effective sometime today their "promotional pricing" of $39 minimum on backorders on Pending Delete domain names is ending. The new minimum backorder for Pending Delete domains will now be $69. "This is being done as part of a broader initiative to increase our drop-catch efficacy and to improve the overall customer experience on NameJet by better … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2016
Rick Schwartz Files UDRP To Protect His “Domain King” Mark & There’s More To Come
Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the "Domain King" has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. Rick not only is commonly known as the Domain King inside the domain community, but has a federally registered trademark on the term "Domain King" in the United States since 2003 (which … [Read more...]
Google Launches Unfiltered.News
Google's parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a "new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a site which analyzes news feeds from around the world, and tells you which news stories are most missed by the media where you live. From there, you can see how these stories are being covered … [Read more...]
Market Recap 3/29/16 Alphabet up 1.6% – Web.com up nearly 2%
Market Recap 3/29/16 Strong day for Alphabet (GOOGL) up $12.61 or 1.6%. Most domain stocks were up on the day. Web.com (WWWW) was up 1.8% while competitor Go Daddy (GDDY) was off half of one percent. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 765.89 +12.61 (1.67%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 31.73 -0.16 (-0.50%) Rightside Group Ltd NAME 8.16 0.00 … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million led by TMHCC.com
Over the past week, 429 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: tmhcc.com at 65,000 USD Top ccTLD: career.eu at 15,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: vape.net at 9,000 USD .COMs tmhcc.com 65,000 USD 0z.com 32,500 USD morebeauty.com … [Read more...]
Google Moves Its Domain Name Registrar To Domains.Google
Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April's Fool's day when Google temporarily put up "com.google". This is for real and in a post Google says: Introducing domains.google — a new URL for Google Domains "We’re so excited about new domain name endings, we decided to use one ourselves! Starting today, you can find us at domains.google" "Like it? Get a … [Read more...]
Three Letter Domain, EHF.com Lost in UDRP
A three member UDRP panel just handed over the three letter domain name EHF.com to the European Handball Federation The panel of Flip Jan Claude Petillion, John Swinson and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was parked, listed for sale for $150,000, owned by someone who is in the business of domaining and was registered 5 years after the trademark of the Complainant was filed. It … [Read more...]