Over the weekend we published a story how 9 gambling related domain names that were seized by the US Government's Homeland Security division, had been placed up for sale by a private company in Las Vegas. The domain names included TruePoker.com, DoylesRoom.com and Bookmaker.com. The domains are now offered for sale by US Poker Marketing Affiliate, LLC the administrative whois contact … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $957,127 for the week ending August 26th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by Paddle.com for $120,000 followed by 351.com & WellPlay.com for $20,000 each. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

Enterprise Car Rental just filed a UDRP on three domain names that appear to be meant for a gripe site. The domains at issues are: do-not-rent-from-enterprise.com donotrententerprise.com dontrententerprise.com While there are plenty of UDRP cases the recognize a domain for a gripe site to be a legitimate purpose and not bad faith, unfortunately for the owner of these domains there is no … [Read more...]

TechCrunch.com published a post today on the domain name MobileApps.com which the owner is selling for a cool million plus. According to the story the owner already has a possible buy which is " a big company (and I mean big)". The Seller went on to say "“One broker is speaking to [redacted] and they have expressed interest despite us telling them it is a 7-figure offer that we are looking … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending July 20th, 2012. In all over $1.2MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Work.org at $55,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were metformina.it for €14,900 and hypnobirthing.de for €8,000. ExpertsBook.com and pof.me each sold for $8,000. In all 720 domains were sold. 38% of total sales were the result of Buy … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totaling $1,108,957 for the week ending August 12th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by ZenSocial.com for $15,000, followed by CupOfCoffee.com for $12,000. Personally I like thedownlow.com which sold for $1,566. Below is the complete list of publicly reportable sales: .COM … [Read more...]

In a blog post by the founder of Buffer and One Page,  Joel Gascoigne, which uses the domain bufferapp.com and MyOnePage.com, entitled "How to Name Your Startup", he tells readers that "domain names don't really matter" I see many, many founders limiting themselves with the domain name. " "One thing I’ve learned and embraced with naming my own startups is that the domain name doesn’t matter … [Read more...]