Sedo.com announced today that it is raising the commission rate of sale made through the it's Marketplace (without broker assistance) to 15% from 10%. Also for those customers who fix price domains to sell in the Sedo MLS service, the commission rate will rise from 15% to 20%. The MLS service is where fixed price domains are show in various registrar channels as a suggestion alternative when … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Game Changer For New gTLD Back End Providers: Unlimited Registrations For $100K
In what appears to be a bold move, Minds + Machines, (London AIM: TLDH), today announced a flat pricing model for back end registry services for top-level domains. According to a press release (translated from German) Minds + Machines will offer unlimited registrations for new TLDs on the registration platform "espresso" for a flat fee of $100,000 per year. "For most new TLDs, no extra … [Read more...]
Bloomberg: Godaddy.com In Talks To Be Bought Out For $2 Billion
According to Bloomberg/Business Week, Godaddy.com the world's largest registrar is in talks to be bought by a group led by KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners for more than $2 billion. "Silver Lake is a Menlo Park, California-based private equity firm that focuses on investing in technology companies. KKR, the leveraged-buyout firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, invests in … [Read more...]
Network Solutions Hit With DDoS Attack & Domain Names Become Inaccessible
I received an email from a reader of TheDomains.com a few hours ago that there domains that were registered with NetworkSolutions.com were not resolving and now According to NetworkSolutions.com blog, the company confirms they have been undergoing an Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for the past two days: ""Network Solutions experienced a distributed denial of service attack Monday … [Read more...]
So Why Does a Name With One Backorder Make In On To NameJet.com “Top 50 Backorder List”?
I have talked to two general managers at Namejet.com about this and it still drives me crazy. and still hasn't changed. If you backorder a domain at NameJet.com and you're the only one to do so, you still might very well make the NameJet.com " Top 50 Name list" The list is then sent to every one on the NameJet system daily, thereby advertising it to world that the domain you have … [Read more...]
Toronto Based Direct Media Technologies Which Owns 80K Domains, Gets $4.5 Million In Equity Financing
Direct Media Technologies Inc. today announced the closing of a US $4.2 million round of equity financing with a group of Canadian and foreign private investors. Raymond James Ltd. and Ubequity Capital Partners Inc., along with several others, assisted the financing. Toronto based Direct Media Technologies is an internet company that specializes in domain ownership, domain monetization and … [Read more...]
FunChat.com Purchased On Afternic For $40K Weeks Ago Is The Latest Edition To The FunMobility Empire
We reported the sale of the domain name Funchat.com back just a few weeks ago on May 24 for $40K on Afternic.com Today in a Press Release FunMobility, announced "the North American launch of FunChat™, the world's first cross-platform chat, gaming and pranking smartphone app." "FunChat seamlessly blends chat, multiplayer HTML5 games, FunGold™ virtual currency, rewards, and achievements … [Read more...]