Well the Domain King, Rick Schwartz is on the war path over a dispute regarding the domain MinneapolisPlasticSurgery.co which he says he offered to the owners of MinneapolisPlasticSurgery.com upon a demand for the generic domain. However even after offering the domain back to the owners at no charge, they filed a UDRP on the domain. So Rick Schwartz put up a site on … [Read more...]
Come End of Next Month Jeff Kupietzky Is Out as CEO Of Oversee: Back In The Day My Meeting With Jeff & The VC Guys
Oversee.net sent out a notice today that Jeff Kupietzky is out as CEO of Oversee.net come the end of August. Of course I knew this was coming and its really a shame how far a major, maybe the biggest company in the space has fallen so quickly. Several few years ago I sat in room at the first DomainFest with Jeff and the VC folks, Oakhill, who had just invested $150 million into Oversee.net … [Read more...]
Godaddy Drops Commission On Auction Sales From 15% to 10% A Month After Raising Them From 5%
Back on June 13th we wrote a post calling out Godaddy.com for tripling the commission they were charging their customers for auction sales from at that time 5% to 15% without first notifying their customers. Today Godaddy let us know that they were rolling back auction commissions to 10% effective yesterday. In addition Godaddy informed thedomains.com that "Anyone who listed domains at 15% … [Read more...]
Flippa.com Report On State of the Website Economy: Focus on Website Domains: $50 Million In Sales
Flippa.com put out this morning a new report called "State of the Website Economy: Focus On WebSite Domains", and its pretty interesting. Flippa say's they have sold $50 Million dollars worth of Websites and has the "largest set of data about buying and selling websites anywhere in the world". So here you go: We find this data absolutely fascinating and thought it high time that we share it … [Read more...]
Afternic DLS Sales Up 94% This Year
Earlier today Sedo issued its 2nd Quarter report. This afternoon Afternic's Domain Listing Service (DLS) issued its report for the 1st half of 2011 and announced a 94% jump in year-over-year sales volume for the first half of 2011, marking the strongest growth in its history. Afternic DLS service works with registrars to allow customer to buy owned domain names through “Instant Transfer … [Read more...]
Domain Theft Hits Startup & Forces Them Into a Name Change
CNet.com is reporting that a startup by the name of Lissn.com has been forced to change its name after its domain name was stolen last week. Lissn.com was the domain name the startup was using but after the domain theft it has switched to Lissn.in In a blog post written by the company's founder, Myke Armstrog he gives out some valuable tips for all domain holders on how to try to avoid a … [Read more...]
Sedo Releases its Domain Market Study for Q2 2011: $25M In Sales up 13%; 10,600 Domain Sales
Sedo just released its Q2 2011 Domain Market Study, which reveals domain name industry trends based on its marketplace transactions. In Q2, Sedo’s Domain Marketplace saw close to $25,000,000 in global sales, revealing 13 percent growth compared to Q1 2011 and 4 percent year-over-year growth. Domain sales priced at $5,000 and below accounted for 48% market share The average sale prices of … [Read more...]