The .London registry along with Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX)) announced today that the renewal rates for .London domain names "exceeded expectations by reaching 75.4%." However that "renewal rate is for a total of 38,389 names applied for during the Dot London combined Sunrise and Landrush period as well as the first day of General Availability, registered between August 19th and September 9th … [Read more...]
DomainPros Buys 260 Five Digit Domains For $1M; $3,850 Per
DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000 That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name. "Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains" which Godaddy bought from Marchex. Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex's portfolio of over … [Read more...]
Worldtrademarkreview.com: New gTLD’s .Law & .Legal not Getting Much Love
According to the Wordldtrademarkreview.com, the new gTLD space for lawyers which highlights .Legal, which is unrestricted and .Law which is heavily restricted have gotten off to a very slow start. "An analysis of take-up within the two most relevant new gTLDs - ‘.law’ and ‘.legal’ - suggests that law firms are taking a tentative approach to their new gTLD registration strategies, with only a … [Read more...]
First .Auto Domain: Kain Automotive Switches From KainAutomotive.Com To Kain.Auto
Kain Automotive has changed their domain name from KainAutomotive.com to the new gTLD Kain.Auto becoming one of the first registrants of the new gTLD .auto. The domain name KainAutomotive.com is now being forwarded to the new gTLD Kain.Auto The domain name Kain.auto was created on November 3. According to their site Kain Automotive was Established in 2003 by "David Kain as a way to assist … [Read more...]
17 Year Old Areas.com Lost in UDRP: Failure to Respond the UDRP Evidence of Bad Faith
The 17 year old domain name Areas.com was just lost in a very short UDRP decision in which the domain holder did not even file a formal response. For all you domain investors that ask why even spend the money to properly defend a UDRP, The Panel found that "failure to respond the Complaint can be evidence of bad faith" in and of itself. That is why if you have a valuable domain you need to … [Read more...]
CentralNic Passes 2 Million Registrations of New gTLD
CentralNic Group PLC has over 2.0 million domains registered using its platform representing 21% of all new gTLD domain names. Of the 2+ million new gTLD registered through CentralNic 1,552,903 are .XYZ domain names. The only other extension using CentralNic that has 100,000+ is .website, although .online is quickly approaching with just about 95,000 domain names. CentralNic passed … [Read more...]
I’M Calling It: The New Wholesale On Chinese LLL.com Is Around $50K
The new wholesale value of a Chinese three letter .Com domain name (LLL.com) is now $50,000. Having over 100 LLL.com, 58 of them which are those Favorited by Chinese domain investors, without vowels or the letter "v' opens me up to a numerous offers all day long which I recently wrote about. When I talk about wholesale offers I'm talking about unsolicited email offers from investors and … [Read more...]