Donuts released two new gTLD's into General Availability yesterday (GA) when domains could be registered on a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including all domain registrations during the Sunrise Period for trademark holders and those who paid additional fees to register domain names before GA, in the Early Access Period (EAP), .Group ended the 1st day of GA with 3,445 registrations according to … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2016
Consumer Electronics Show migrates to WWW.CES.TECH
Radix has some news out today that the Consumer Electronics Show or CES has made the move from CESWEB.org to CES.Tech. This is a sensible change as CESWEB is a bit clunky. CES.com does not resolve and CES.org is a developed website for Cooperative Educational Services. Here is the release: Radix Registry today announced that the Consumer Electronics Show (popularly known as CES) has … [Read more...]
“Protecting Internet Freedom Act” Introduced By Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) introduced the Protecting Internet Freedom Act, which "would prevent the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from allowing the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions contract to expire, unless specifically authorized by Congress. The Protecting Internet Freedom Act would also ensure that the United … [Read more...]
SportsAuthority.com With Over 100 Million Visitors a Year Hits The Auction Block
Hilco Streambank is auctioning off the intellectual property assets of The Sports Authority, Inc.., including its brands, trademarks, patents and web and customer assets and the domain names owned by the company (the “Assets”). On the domain front Sports Authority owns 628 Domain Names including SportsAuthority.com which got more than 111 Million visits in 2014 and More than 126 Million visits … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3million – Purple.co.uk leads the way
Over the past week, 526 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: souse.com at 40,000 USD Top ccTLD: purple.co.uk at 108,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: skincancer.net at 23,000 USD .COMs souse.com 40,000 USD liveme.com 28,500 … [Read more...]
Eric Lyon’s Latest Domain Comic
Eric Lyon put out his latest comic, Eric really does a great job and is a really talented dude. The inspiration for this comic was all of the times I’ve seen people ask each other how to monetize a domain while it sat parked, waiting to be sold. It seems that no matter how many times this question about domain monetization is asked, the answer is always the same generic response. I can’t … [Read more...]
Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin has taken a real shine to 99.co
There was a story published on Bloomberg that featured a short numeric .co. 99.co a Singaporean house-hunting service has caught the eye of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Now a resident of Singapore for close to seven years, Saverin the venture capitalist helped plug 99.co to real estate agents and sat in with the CEO Darius Cheung on a panel and expressed the need to embrace new … [Read more...]