Sedo released their sales data for the week, there were a couple 3L.com sales with ENS.com and HSE.com. Horse.Horse for $2,000 was the most puzzling sale of the week for me. I am not sure why to spend $2,000 on Horse.Horse. 101 Domain page showing currently. Top .com: MAMMA.COM at 72,999 USD Top ccTLD: GRAZMOBIL.AT at 4,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: PSYCHIC.ORG at 12,000 … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2016
ClintonKaine.com For Sale For $90K, Sells For $15K But Not To Clinton
The domain name ClintonKaine.com which was for sale for $90,000 a few weeks ago just sold for $15,000. The owner of the domain Jeremy P. Green confirmed the selling price to us and told TheDomains.com that "The Clinton campaign wasn't interested in spending any significant money on it, they offered me a ludicrous $2,000 so I let a Flippa.com broker named Devoir Funches take care of everything … [Read more...]
Bigfoot Ventures of NYC Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in Unusual Opinion
Bigfoot Ventures LLC of New York, New York, represented by Morton & Associates LLP has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name slized.com The one member panel of Matthew S. Harris decided a pretty interesting and rare type of RDNH case especially where he found the version of event stated by the domain holder were "highly implausible" However the … [Read more...]
Afilias Asks ICANN To Disqualify Nu Dot Co’s $135 million winning bid for .Web
Afilias has written ICANN asking that it disqualify Nu Dot Co’s $135 million winning bid for .Web, which as we now know would give Verisign (VRSN) control of what many consider to be the best of the new gTLD. Afilias also asked ICANN to conduct an investigation, and has also filed a complaint with the Ombudsman. This is in addition to the amended lawsuit filed last week by Donuts’ after it … [Read more...]
Ename is now a public company in China
According to a newsletter from DN.com the popular Chinese registrar/marketplace Ename has gone public. According to the statistic in the Information Disclosure, eName was established on 19th May, 2005. It had a revenue of ¥260 million CNY and net profit of ¥27.9 million CNY in the year 2015, and a revenue of ¥167.5 million CNY and net profit of ¥11.9 million CNY in the year 2014. Here is a … [Read more...]
Let’s Do Some Business
Last week over 150 readers told us their top/favorite domain and how much they wanted for it. In most cases these prices were at the retail/enduser level. One poster did mention they did sell a domain after posting here, so maybe the thread helped with bringing some exposure to one sale. Today I would like to give readers the chance to generate some business at the wholesale level. So in … [Read more...]
Sens. Cruz; Lee & Duffy Ask DOJ to Review Whether To Extend Verisign Contract Over .Com Now
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) sent a letter yesterday to the Department of Justice (DOJ) Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division Renata Hesse. The letter even cites the Internet Commerce Association and yes its all about how much Verisign might be able to charge for .com registrations down the road. The letter also gives … [Read more...]