Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of the last announcement at 8.7%. Mr. Krueger owned some 15.9% of the shares of the company before his announcement and so he has sold, a little less than … [Read more...]
Rightside Spent $54M On New gTLD’s Got Back $29M By Withdrawing Apps
Bizjournals.com, just covered Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) and there is some good information in the article some of which I had not read before "Rightside spent $54.18 million on gTLDs over the past three years. The company got back about $29 million of that by withdrawing applications on some domains" With its partner in certain strings Donuts, Rightside applied or had part interest in 133 new … [Read more...]
Seller of Dot Money name for $90,000 once walked away from The Apprentice UK TV Show
Elliot Silver broke the news about a $90,000 .money sale. The seller Adam Freeman from Essex, was slated to be a contestant on the British version of The Apprentice before he quit. The Apprentice UK is produced by Mark Burnett the same producer of the U.S. version. Sir Alan Sugar is the Donald Trump of the U.K. version. This was back in 2009 and after he quit The Guardian covered the … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD
On today's DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not "registered" by Uniregistry until the day before it transferred to FTD. The domain … [Read more...]
Almost All Of Free .Berlin Domain Names Have Expired 37K So Far
.Berlin had over 31,000 domain names expire yesterday adding to the previous day where over 36,000 domain names expired. .Berlin about a year ago allowed free domain registrations for 2 days, which totaled somewhere between 70,000-75,000 domain names with two registrants picking up almost 70,000 domain names just between the two. Now that these free domain names have come up for renewal it … [Read more...]
Godaddy’s Ad For .Show Might Lead To A Lot Of Cybersquatting
Godaddy has a webpage dedicated to the upcoming new gTLD .show Here is what Godaddy has to say about the extension: Everything from feature films to television shows to theater performances use the term “show.” If your site relates to any of those, register .show domain names for instant … [Read more...]
Minds + Machines Offering Free Domains In .Work & .Casa
According to an email we received today from Minds + Machines they are offering free domains in the new gTLD's .Work & .Casa only on the Minds + Machines Registrar "The offer is only valid for one more week, exclusively on Minds + Machines and the offer expires on June 15th, 2015" The offer is valid for 10 .Work and 10 .Casa non-premium (standard names) domains "per customer" Under the … [Read more...]