Earlier today we wrote about AO.com going public making the founder a very wealthy guy. George Kirikos just found out that the domain was recently acquired by the company in March 2013 for approximately £391,000, which based on the exchange rate of £1.5205 the domain sold for just about $600,000. George notes that on Page 104 of the AO.com prospectus, they bought 2 domains for £391,000 … [Read more...]

KeyDrive S.A. is pleased to announce that Bonnie Wittenburg has taken the position as CEO of Moniker. Bonnie Wittenburg has been the Executive Vice President of Key Systems since 2009. "Moniker is one of the top 10 ICANN accredited registrars for generic top level domains on the international market and member of the KeyDrive S.A. since January 2012. KeyDrive has more than 6 million domains … [Read more...]

Moniker® and SnapNames®, both KeyDrive S. A.  today announced their 2014 Kick-Off Premium Auction catalog and the auction is in fact live. One domain name, Nova.com, already has a $60,000 bid however the reserve range is $50k- $100K and the domain has not hit reserve. The auction ends on March 6th at 3:15pm EST in according with Snapnames.com closing rules. Some of the more interesting … [Read more...]

In an announcement today on DomainNameSales.com, they are setting a $175 minium commission on all domain sales starting on February 15th. However since the average sale is $15,000 according to the release the minimum commission shouldn't be a big deal. Here is the announcement: ""Firstly, in regard to DNS, The DNS platform is unique because it lets you self-broker your sales, and … [Read more...]

It was a busy day for game maker Zynga, the company reported earnings and laid of 15 % of their workforce. Then they announced the acquisition of Natural Motion for $527 million. Tech Crunch covered the Natural Motion acquisition : Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual … [Read more...]

Lil' Drug Store Products, Inc. just won control of the domain name pre-seed.com in a one member panel UDRP. The domain holder did not respond. The factual findings pertinent to the decision in this case are that: 1.    Complainant has since 2003 sold fertility enhancement preparations including non-spermicidal personal lubricants and moisturizers by reference to the trademark PRE-SEED; 2.    … [Read more...]

Brand holders god love them. Gucci just won the rights to 184 .Org domain names in a single UDRP. I can safety say there is not one of these .org domain names that is even worth the registration fee. Later today I will publish a list of 50 domain names recently dropped that brandholders didn't even spend $10 to register and I guarantee you everyone of those are worth 1,000 time more than … [Read more...]