Sedo just posted its weekly report for the period ending October 15th, 2012. In all, 853 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totalling $1.65 million. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .com: vogel.com at 75,000 USD - Top ccTLD: doctor.co.uk at 24,999 GBP - Top “other” TLD: restaurantes.info … [Read more...]

A one member panel just rejected the Complaint brought by  ezTaxReturn.com, LLC who owns a trademark on ezTaxReturn.com against the owner of the plural version of the domain name  ezTaxReturns.com Its a pretty long opinion especially since the panelist knocked the case out finding that the domain holder had letimate rights to the domain name and didn't even get into the "bad faith" … [Read more...]

NameJet, and  Afternic, have teamed up to sell domain names for  gTLD registries according to a press release today. "Through this powerful combination of resources, NameJet and Afternic will provide a single resource for all the technical and marketing services needed to fully manage a registry's TLD launch including sunrise and landrush auctions, premium domain valuation and distribution, and … [Read more...]

Sedo just posted it weekly report. In all, 775 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totalling $1.25 million. Over 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .com: fahrrad.com at 90,000 EUR - Top ccTLD: online-casinos.at at 24,000 EUR - Top “other” TLD: space.travel at 10,500 USD Here are the reportable … [Read more...]

Domain Holdings announced Monday that they will be the broker of record for Domains New Media LLC’s domain portfolio which is owned by Skip  Hoagland. "The portfolio, comprised of more than 1,700 names, is publicly available for the first time, with names like Cuba.com, Cali.com, BuenosAires.com, Geneva.com, Uruguay.com and more Hoagland approached Domain Holdings’ Premium Domain Brokerage … [Read more...]

According to a press release we just received Vessio, LLC, a web development company operating out of Houston, Texas has announced their soon to be released Domain Development service which will provide a new level of sophistication and revenue possibilities to Domain Name owners. "Since 2006, Vessio has deployed hundreds of websites and dynamic components for a global list of companies and … [Read more...]

Two more new gTLD applications have been withdrawn by the applicants, bring the total number of withdrawn new gTLD applications to 6. Eli Lilley has withdrawn its application for .Cialis., apparently it didn't have the staying power you would have thought it would. The application was submitted on Behalf of Eli Lilley by Fairwind Partners. The second application now showing as being … [Read more...]