easyDNS Technologies Inc. announced today "Hot Swappable Nameservers" under the solution they call Proactive Nameservers, "the world's first name server delegation optimization platform which actively responds to conditions affecting your domain's DNS availability and performance in real-time." "Denial of Service attacks or technology errors (such as “corrupted router data tables”) can bring … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $985,096 for the week ending November 18th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by GolfClubsForSale.com & Domain99.com each at $7,500. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

Tucows just lost a UDRP on the domain name Marker.com to Marker Völkl (International) GmbH of Baar, Switzerland The domain name Marker.com is being used by Tucows,  Hover service to provide personalized email addresses. However the one member panel found the fact that since the underlying domain name was also parked that amounted to not legitimate use and bad faith by Tucows It appears … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,043,592 for the week ending November 11th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by NationLine.com for $11,375 followed by YaThink.com at $10,000. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

Sedo just posted its weekly report for the period ending November 12th, 2012. In all, 919 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totalling over $2.2 million. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Domain … [Read more...]

A three member UDRP panel just rejected the complaint brought by Tarheel Take-Out, LLC of Chapel Hill, North Carolina against  Versimedia, Inc. of Wilton, Connecticut, on the domain name takeout.com and found the complainant was guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. "In its trademark application, filed roughly six years after Respondent registered the generic or commonly descriptive term … [Read more...]

Priceline.com bought Kayak.com for $1.8 Billion dollars today in cash and stock just four month after becoming a public company. Priceline will pay $40 a share for the company, a 29% premium to its closing price of $31.04 Thursday and 54% more than its initial public offering price in July of $26 a share. Kayak reported$224 million in revenues last year, and processed 302 million users … [Read more...]