According to a press release just out, Namecheap.com has chosen Onepager as its exclusive website builder for its nearly 1 million customer accounts and over 3 million domains under management. "Namecheap customers now have the ability to launch their websites quickly and economically using the Onepager builder, immediately after choosing the perfect domain". "Both Namecheap and Onepager … [Read more...]
Tucows Spends Over $6.1M Buying Over 4 Million Of its Owns Shares At $1.50
Tucows, Inc., (AMEX: TCX) (TSX:TC), announced today the preliminary results of its modified "Dutch auction" tender offer, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 4, 2013. Tucows expects to purchase up to 4,114,437 shares of its Common Stock at a purchase price of $1.50 per share, for a total of $6,173,155. "The price per share is preliminary and subject to verification by … [Read more...]
Bidding Opens On DomainMarket’s Snapnames Auction Including HappyBirthday.com
Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com Showcase auction on SnapNames just opened today for bidding. The auction features some great domain names including HappyBirthday.com;Bailout.com; and Crime.org which Mike has mentioned quite often on this Facebook page. The auction ends at January 24th 2013 at 3:15PM EST in accordance with SnapNames.com closing rules. Here are all the domain names in the … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions for Two Weeks Total Just $1.38 Million
Sedo just published its weekly sales lists for the two weeks of December 17th—24th and December 24th—31st. Over the past two weeks, only 932 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.38 million. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .com: zodia.com at 35,421 USD · Top … [Read more...]
Loft.XXX Becomes 1st Reported .XXX Domain Sale Of 2013 At $17k
Just crossing the Sedo.com wire is the sale of the domain name Loft.XXX for a very respectable 13,000 euros or just over $17,000 based on today's exchange rates. The seller appears to be Markus Herbig who got the domain back in December 2011. The domain is currently in Sedo.com escrow This appears to be the 1st reported .XXX domain sale of 2013 and a nice sale at that. Its also maybe … [Read more...]
Our List Of The First 80 Non-IDN/Brand New gTLD’s That Will Come To Market
This a list of the first 80 Non-IDN , Non-.Brand new gTLDs that should come to market first. Why? Because all of these are new gTLD's are non contested, meaning there was only one application made for the string, none were subject to an GAC early warning and drew a low number in the ICANN draw. Assuming the applications pass initial evaluation, are not put into a contention set by ICANN, … [Read more...]
Verisign Increase .Net Prices 10%, Adding $7.5 Million To Verisign’s Revenue
After the market closed today, VeriSign, Inc. ( NASDAQ : VRSN ), announced, effective July 1, 2013, an increase in the registry domain name fee for .net top-level domain names, per its agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). As of July 1, 2013, the registry fee for .net will increase from $5.11 to $5.62. Share of Verisign where up $1.17 to $38.30 … [Read more...]