Sedo just posted its weekly report for the period ending October 29th, 2012. In all, 892 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totalling nearly $2.3 million. Over 38% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. The $500,000 reported by Dave Evanson for WebHosting.co.uk today is NOT included. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .com: calcio.com … [Read more...]
Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick Awarded RickNielsen.com By UDRP Panel, But Is It A Correct Decision?
Richard A. Nielsen a/k/a Rick Nielsen, is the lead guitarist, backup vocalist, and primary songwriter for the American rock band Cheap Trick was just award the domain name ricknielsen.com in a UDRP handled by the National Arbitration Forum As I read through the case I got the feeling that had the domain holder had a different attorney he may have gotten a different result. The case cites … [Read more...]
153,000 Premium Domain Names Owned By Ondova Hits The Bankruptcy Court Auction Block: Minimum Bid $4.3 Million
The U. S. Bankruptcy Court has just issued a Court Ordered for the sale of two portfolios of domain names, one containing more than 150,000 domain names and separate portfolio of more than 3,000 domain names (the “Portfolios”), plus related monetization and registrar contracts. The minimum bid is $4.3 million dollars and you will have to put up $500,000 into escrow to bid on the auction. The … [Read more...]
Peter Dengate Thrush Stepping Down As Director Of Minds + Machines (TLDH) At The End Of January
According to a press release Peter Dengate Thrush is stepping down as a Director of Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) at the end of January 2013 ""The Board of Directors of TLDH announces that Peter Dengate Thrush, the executive chairman, intends to step down as a director of TLDH at the end of January 2013. " Peter Dengate Thrush will remain as an adviser to some of the Company's gTLD … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Gets Hit With UDRP On The Generic Domain Marshall.com
Marshall Amplification plc, just filed a UDRP against the quite generic domain name of Marshall.com which is owned by Frank Schilling's Name Administration. The company filing the compliant makes Marshall Amps and their official site is at MarshallAmps.com Wikipedia.org has a page dedicated to all the different uses for Marshall and Marshall Amps is only one of them, including 18 cities in … [Read more...]
Google’s Issues ‘Disavow Links Tool” To Take Down Spammy Links Or “Bad Link Building” To Be Disregarded For Ranking Purposes
Today Google issued a "Disavow Links tool" which enables webmasters to take control of undesirable links and ask that they be disregarded for ranking purposes. Webmasters who believe their site's ranking is being harmed by low-quality links from spam sites can now take control and ask Google not to take them into account when assessing ranking. The primary function of the 'Disavow Links' … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $875K in Domain Names
Afternic’s just released it weekly reportable domain sales for the week of 10/08/12 – 10/14/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 875,669 .com … [Read more...]