Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,014,184 for the week ending April 22. The publicly reportable sales were led by GreenJuice.com at $35K, followed by pinmyride.com and beenz.com each at $20K. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

I took a couple of days off to celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary so I thought I would catch up on a few stories I wasn't around to cover. The "big" news is that ICANN once again pushed back the re-opening of the TAS system last night when it issued a statement telling the world that the system was fixed, being tested and ICANN would update us again on Friday on when the system would be … [Read more...]

Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,034,065 for the week ending April 15th. The publicly reportable sales were led by WirelessPhones.com at $70,000 followed by Cyclist.com at $35,000. Below is the complete list released of publicly reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]

Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending April 16th. In all $1.3MM of domains were sold. The big seller was a package of .TV domains - film.tv, filmy.tv and filme.tv for $65,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were autovita.com & polling.com each at $15K. In all 796 domains were sold. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective … [Read more...]

Pool.com has a new product for those seeking an advantage in the batching process for new gTLD's. The service is called  Digital Archery Service and its get its name from the process ICANN announced a couple of weeks ago for batching the new gTLD applications. The process as ICANN describes it, is very much like the process domainers are familiar with trying to catch dropping … [Read more...]

Yahoo has just announced that it is firing another 2,000 people in a continuing restructuring effort. "Today's actions are an important next step toward a bold, new Yahoo! -- smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate," the company said in a statement. According to Yahoo, it has around 14,000 employees so a loss of 2,000 employees represents a little more than 15% of … [Read more...]

Sedo just reported its sales for the week selling 997 domain name totaling over $1.9 million. Sales were led by PhoneMarket.com for $180,000. The new owner of the domain name is Web House of Malaysia, the seller appears to be a company out of the UK, THE CARPHONE WAREHOUSE LIMITED. 38% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         … [Read more...]