fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD .BANK will open on June 24, 2015 for all eligible members of the banking industry. fTLD was created to manage the .BANK domain with the support … [Read more...]
Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn assets under management
Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of the last announcement at 8.7%. Mr. Krueger owned some 15.9% of the shares of the company before his announcement and so he has sold, a little less than … [Read more...]
Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD’s Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps
Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before "Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains" With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new … [Read more...]
After Selling For $750K In 2010, Ringtones.com Sells For $105K On Namejet.com
The domain name Ringtones.com just sold on Namejet.com for $105,000. The reserve price seemed to be $100,000. In all there were 218 bidders and the bidder with the id easydomains won the domain name auction with a bid of $105K The domain name has an Estibot.com value of $909,000 Ringtones.com sold at Sedo back in 2010 for $750,000 although it's not clear if the buyer of the domain … [Read more...]
Mike Mann Sells Fun.co For $70,000
Mike Mann announced that his DomainMarket.com sold the domain Fun.co for $70,000 The domain name was "purchased a while back" according to Mike Mann. This .co domain represents the 9th highest .Co domain sale according to Estibot and the highest domain sale by DomainMarket.com since Business.co which sold for … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Rejects Fashion Television’s Attempt To Grab Fashion.tv
Fashion Television International Limited has lost it's attempt to grab the domain name Fashion.tv in a UDRP basically letting a pending court case in Munich decide the fate of the domain fashion.tv We wrote about this UDRP when it was filed a couple of months ago There was a report that Fashion.tv was purchased in 2014 for $125,000 but that does not seem to be correct, according to the facts … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD
On today's DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not "registered" by Uniregistry until the day before it transferred to FTD. The domain … [Read more...]