TechCrunch.com, just covered the launch of Juan Calle latest venture Pop.co "Basically, Pop.co is a bundle of online services" "You just pick the .co address that you’re interested in (assuming it’s available, and if it’s not, Pop.co will suggest alternatives), then the company automatically claims it for you, and you can either use Pop.co’s simple web page editor to create the page with … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the period of 7/29/13 – 8/4/13. Domain sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,294,035. The highest sale was MicroBusiness.com which sold for $10,165 followed by Fab.us for $8,995. Here is the full list of reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/29/13 – 08/04/13 totaling over $1MM. The highest priced transaction was watertreatment.com at $30,000 followed by hometests.com at $22,000. Over the past week, 663 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1MM. This amounts to $41.2MM in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 44% of total sales … [Read more...]

A Federal District Court has awarded NameCheap.com $1.3 Million Dollars  in a cybersquatting suit. The judgement (Judgment) was entered back in January 2013 but it does not appear to have been reported on before. The United States District Court for the Central District of California awarded NameCheap.com $50,000 for each of the 26 infringing domains for a total of $1.3 Million. The Court … [Read more...]

Google announced a new product today called Chrome Cast which is described as something like Apple TV which allows users to stream videos from a phone or tablet to their TV using Chrome. Google doesn't own the domain name ChromeCast.com that honor goes to a media design and IT consulting company out of  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada which registered the domain name back when it was formed in … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/15/13 – 7/21/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,037,702. The highest sale was LightArt.com which sold for $32,000, followed by shrs.com for $18,500. Full information on the transactions can be found here. Below is the full list of reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/08/13 – 07/14/13 totaling $1.5MM. The highest priced transaction was body.com at $380,000 followed by startnext.com at $25,000. Over the past week, 711 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. This amounts to $36.5m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 41% of total sales were the result … [Read more...]