TechCrunch just covered another .Me site, this time its Offersby.Me which is a group buying site. Interestingly the company also owns the .com version of the domain name, but is sticking with the branding of the site using the .Me extension. According to TechCrunch: ""Adam Goldberg did quite a bit of research before soft-launching OffersBy.me last spring. The ex-Oracle, ex-Google … [Read more...]
BusinessWeek Becomes Lastest Publication To Raise Concern Over Donuts & Demand
Donuts, Inc., the largest applicant under ICANN's new gTLD program has just been covered again by a major publication, this time by BusinessWeek.com in a story entitled: "Donuts’ Grab for Domains Raises Fears of Cybersquatting" "Stoler, the McCarter & English lawyer, said in his July letter to Icann that Donuts has clear links to Demand Media and its subsidiaries, which have received … [Read more...]
Sedo 3Q Report: Market Slows To $15.1M In Sales; Less Transactions; 46% All Sales Under $500; 40% $500-$2,500
Sedo.com released its Market Report for the 3rd Quarter ending September 30, 2012 (pdf), this morning and reported its slowest quarter in terms of the number of transaction for domain names in 2012 and including the 4th quarter of 2011. Here are the highlights of the report: The third quarter of the year accounted for a total of 8,181 transactions In the 2nd Q of 2012 there were 9,049 … [Read more...]
$24 Million In Domain Sales To Be Added To DnJournal.com
In its announcement splitting Marchex into two separate companies and releasing over 500 domain name sales previously not reported, we reached out to Ron Jackson of DnJournal.com who has served as the "official" record keeper of domain sales to see how he would be handling these sales. In all we count over $24 million dollars in domain sales which took place between 2008-2012 by Marchex. In … [Read more...]
Right Of The Dot™ Teams up with Escrow.com™ To Provide Neutral Auction & Mediation Resolution for gTLD String Contention
According to a Press Release out today RightOfTheDot ,LLC, announced their independent private auction resolution and mediation services for competing gTLD applicants. ""Hot on the heels of ICANN’s welcome announcement of the drawing process, Right Of The Dot is launching a private auction and mediation service to accelerate the process of settling claims between applicants for the same new gTLD … [Read more...]
TLDH: Turning Point Has Been Reached For New gTLD Program & Some Registries Will Be Revenue Producing In 2013
According to a press release just issued by Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) "a turning point has been reached for the timetable for the implementation of the new generic top level domain ("gTLD") program." and they expect that certain new registries "are likely to be revenue producing in 2013." "The first contracts or delegations are expected to be concluded following the next ICANN meeting in … [Read more...]
Flippa Inforgraphic On What is Powering Web Site Sales
Flippa just released an infographic demonstrating what is powering the web based on website sales. ""We took over $26M in transactions from the last 18 months to work out what technologies are being used to power the internet and how this has changed in the last 12 month. " "Gone are the days of rampant Wordpress, Tumblr growth. Meanwhile Blogger seems to be in permanent decline." "CMS … [Read more...]