It looks like Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) has applied for 26 new gTLD's and some of them are .Wow The applicant is United TLD Holdco Ltd. and the contract there is Mr. Jeffrey Eckhaus, who is a Senior Vice President of Demand. There are some interesting one's here. .Airforce and .Navy would appear to be an issue and subject to objection by the US government and the GAC unless they are making … [Read more...]

I have at least another couple of hours trying to digest all of the 1,931 applications released by ICANN in the Big Reveal but already have found some pretty big surprises. Apple didn't apply for .App The owner of the biggest App Store in the world didn't make application, but Amazon and Google did. Apple also didn't apply for .Mac Facebook did not apply for .Facebook or for any other … [Read more...]

Tucows (TCX) applied for only 4 new gTLD's GROUP MARKETING MEDIA ONLINE … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $994,964 for the week ending June 10th, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by ConferenceCalling.com at $80K, followed by VertigoEntertainment.com at $65K. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

According to The New York Times, GoDaddy.com, who up until now produced all of their own  commercials in house, including those Super Bowl commercials, has hired for the first time a professional advertising agency, Deutsch New York. According to The Times the first commercials produced by Deutsch New York will begin airing during the Olympics. The article quotes Godaddy.com's CEO Warren … [Read more...]

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) has applied to own and operate the new gTLD of .PHARMACY. According to the press release: "At a time when the vast majority of Web sites selling prescription drugs online are doing so illegally - many of them selling unapproved, substandard, and counterfeit medicine - NABP is seeking to establish the .PHARMACY space as a secure and … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending June 11th, 2012. In all over $1.7MM of domains were sold. The top seller was online-casino.de Euros at €115,000s. Other domains topping the list of public sales were gruppenreisen.de for €59,500 & gamble.net for $46,125. In all 842 domains were sold. 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of … [Read more...]