You may have missed the ICANN comment period currently open on the topic of dotless domains. While there are not a lot of comments submitted on the subject, new gTLD applicants Donuts, Inc., Frank Schilling's Uniregistry and .Green  have posted comments saying they would like to see Dotless Domain names remain an option on the table. So what are Dotless Domains and why did ICANN open up a … [Read more...]

Sedo, today announced that Name.com expanded their SedoMLS partnership, enabling them to provide their customers access to millions of premium domains that are listed on Sedo’s domain marketplace. As one of the world’s leading domain registrars, Name.com offers customers the ability to register domain names for the first time. By joining SedoMLS as a Premium partner, they have made it even … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending September 17th, 2012. In all over $2.7MM of domains were sold. The top seller was NewOne.org at $30,000 followed by preisvergleich.net for 16,000 EUR. In all 776 domains were sold. 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies:   … [Read more...]

According to some new domain name registrations yesterday it looks like DreamWorks Animation's (Nasdaq: DWA) new movie is going to be named Mumbai Musical. The company registered MumbaiMusical.com, MumbaiMusical.net, MumbaiMusical.org and MumbaiMusical.info. Interestingly the company did not register MumbaiMusical.in (the country code for India) and the domain appears to still be … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just reported it's weekly domain sales for the week of 9/3/12 – 9/9/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, totaled $ 969,143 Sales were led by GarageDoorRepairs.com which sold for $21,250 & MyEyes.com which sold for $19,777 My personal favorite is AVN.Org which sold for just over $1K. AVN.com is a huge adult … [Read more...]

Godaddy.com seems to be having a major outage at the time of publication. Not only is Godaddy.com down, but millions of sites and email hosted on their servers, including many popular domain industry blogs. Again as of time of publication, Elliotsblog.com, DomainNameWire.com and Domainincite.com are all down along with most if not all of the Godaddy network. DomainControl.com which hosts … [Read more...]

The domain name eCapital.com just sold on Sedo for $30,000 The owner of the domain was  eCapital out of Palo Alto, CA. The domain name is at Sedo escrow pending transfer. The original registration date of the domain is August 1996. The Seller also owns the domain name eCapital.net. … [Read more...]