According to the press release for DNHeadlines.com, the new service is the "only Domain Name Industry Single Page Content RSS Feed Aggregation Service". DNHeadlines.com parses RSS Feeds from Domain News sites and Domain Blogs, aggregates them by each feed. At the moment, DNHeadlines.com is in Beta (launch date imminent). TheDomains.com is proud to be included in the RSS feeds provided by … [Read more...]
Tucows Still Pulling Their Own Domains out of Auctions
According to a post in Dot Weekly Tucows is still pulling domains from the Afternic Platform. I will not relay our dealings with Tucows in their in-house auctions again (you can read all the posts herein) but basically they took back 260 domains they sold at auction, after they sold, saying that it was a mistake those domains we placed into the auction. When the Tucows expired domain auction … [Read more...]
More Live Auctions At Traffic: Does it Mean More $$$
With the announcement by the TRAFFIC show organizers yesterday that there would be up to three live domain auction at TRAFFIC the question is will this result in an overall higher amount of sales? Here's our take. This is pretty much a zero sum game. Lets say there are 500 people attending the conference in New York. Each person comes with a budget in mind for buying domains. Of … [Read more...]
ICANN Not Enforcing Rules Against Registrar Warehousing Because There Are No Rules
One of the leading domain attorneys we all know and love sent me an e-mail today about my Post the other day concerning Domain Registrars which warehouse expired domains of their customers instead of releasing them into a drop or auction. It seems that Paragraph 3.7.9 of the agreement between ICANN and the Regsitrars that we have been quoting to say: """"Registrars shall abide by any ICANN … [Read more...]
Moniker.com Systems Upgrade Complete
Moniker announced today that it the recent system upgrades have been completed resulting in the Moniker account control panel to load much faster making it easier to use for domainers and other bulk users. According to Moniker the new platform is 10 to 25 times faster than before, based on the size of the portfolio, making bulk management more efficient. For our own account we have noticed a … [Read more...]
Did Business.com Really Sell for $7.5 Million??
In a very interested article in Newsweek.com, Jake Winebaum is interviewed. Mr. Winebaum apparently is one of the founders of a company called ecompanies, which bought the domain, business.com for $7.5 Million in 2000, or did they pay that much? In his interview he is quoted regarding the $7.5 Million dollar purchase price paid for business.com: """"The $7.5 million was a stock deal that we … [Read more...]
CADNA Serves Up More Ridiculous Figures
The The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) served up another ridiculous figure to the press today in discussing the new $.20 per domain, non-refundable fee imposed by ICANN to eliminate domain tasting. CADNA in said that ICANN move was only a "partial success" and it "is unlikely that the proposed solution will adequately address domain name tasting". Here CADNA's … [Read more...]