Looking at the Pool.com daily list of the top back ordered dropping domain names for tomorrow December 11, 2012, I noticed an abundance of NNN.mobi domain names. 24 in all. While .Mobi hasn't been the greatest investment for domain holders its rare to see so many NNN domains dropping in any extension in any one day. What do you think, worth $60 … [Read more...]
The NBA’s New Orleans Hornets To Become The New Orleans Pelicans & A Cover Band May Strike It Rich
According to an ESPN report the New Orleans Hornets are going to become the New Orleans Pelicans, meaning that someone just won the domain name lottery with Pelicans.com The domain name Pelicans.com as fellow south Floridan Scott Ross points out on his Facebook page, is owned by a "little known San Diego cover band, The Fabulous Pelicans" who appears to be in a position to get a "money … [Read more...]
Verisign: If New gTLD’s Are Successful We Might Be Able To Lift All Price Caps On .Com’s
Coming out of the Verisign ( NASDAQ : VRSN ) conference call this morning announcing that the contract to operate the .com contract had been renewed for six years, without any price increases, is that all price caps on .Com's could be lifted as early as 2014 if the new gTLD program is highly successful. Responding to questions, Verisign stated that through this contract renewal they"obtained an … [Read more...]
Did A Federal Appeals Court Just Block The $5.2 Million Dollar Bankruptcy Auction Of 153,000 Domain Names?
Last week DomainNameWire.com, reported that the domain name portfolio owned by Jeff Baron had been sold for $5.2 Million dollars in a bankruptcy auction. The portfolio consisted of 153,000 domain names. According to a Facebook post under the account SaveJeffBaron tonight it looks like a federal appeals court may have stepped into stop the transfer of the domains subject to the sale. This … [Read more...]
MarkMonitor.com Registers A Bunch Of Defensive Registrations For Clients: Sucks, Hate And The F Bomb
MarkMonitor.com registered a bunch of defensive domain name registrations for Bell Media yesterday, including the words suck, hate and even the F-Bomb Bell Media owns many TV networks in Canada including the CTV, Much, and RDS Here are the domains: … [Read more...]
ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 To Match .Net & Limit Increases To CPI
In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), the ICA urges the DOC & the DOJ not to approve the renewal of the Verisign contract to operate the .com registry unless Verisign rolls back wholesale prices of .com domain names to the same price it charges for .net domain registrations … [Read more...]
ICE Seizes 132 Domains & This Time Its Global, Not Just .Com & .Net
ICE today announced that 132 domain names were seized for selling counterfeit products. However not only were .com's and .net's targeted this time. While 101 of the domain names were with a registry located in the United States, 31 ccTLD's domain names were seized as well. Domain names ending in .eu, .be, .dk, .fr, .ro and .uk were all seized. "This operation is a great example of the … [Read more...]