The auction for the domain name ePark.com ended yesterday on Namejet with a bid of $30,600. While the domain has a nice ring to it, I think it priced at full retail at $30K Speaking of full retail, FindAbook.com got a price of $8,610. Ferdinand.com pulled in $6K but not sure what you do with that one either. OrganicEggs.com sold for $5K but I'm not sure such a thing exists, I know of free … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers Chef Patrick & His Acquisition of ScienceFiction.com
This morning TechCrunch covered the acquisition and launch of the domain name ScienceFiction.com by "Domain name investor and blogger Patrick Ruddell (aka Chef Patrick)" In an article entitled "ScienceFiction.com Aims To Become The “TechCrunch Of Sci-Fi”" According to the story Chef Patrick bought the domain name off of Domain Capital for $175K after someone defaulted in their … [Read more...]
Enom & Moniker Are Now Live On Afternic’s Domain Listing Service
Enom and Moniker are both Live on Afternic as DLS Premium partners. This means that if your names are registered at Moniker, Enom, Enom Central, or Bulk Register (or other DLS Premium Partners, NetSol, Register.com, Name.com) you can now opt-in to DLS Premium at Afternic. Once you are opted in to DLS Premium, your names will be listed for sale at more than 24 major sites; including Enom, … [Read more...]
ICM Registry Launches .XXX Founders Program
In a press release issued today by ICM Registry, who is seeking to run the .XXX registry, the announcement of a Founders Program was made. The program allows for webmasters who plan to develop a site using a .XXX domain to secure it prior to general availability. Here is the full release: Adult Webmasters can secure premium .XXX domains if they proactively develop and maintain domains … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $640K In Domains
The weekly Afternic.com report is out for the week ending December 12, 2010. In all just under $640,000 of domains were sold in reportable .com sales priced $2,000 or more & non .com's priced $1,000 or more. This report shows 8 domains selling above the $10,000 mark and 22 domains selling above $5,000. Congratulations to Afternic.com on another successful week of sales, indicating the … [Read more...]
Afternic Sells $600k+ In Names; Hobbies.com Sold For $300k
Afternic.com has just released sales for the week ending November 28th totalling just over $610k. Leading the way was Hobbies.com which sold for $297,500. Below is the entire reportable list of .com sales over $2,000 & reportable non .com sales over $1,000. .COM … [Read more...]
AVN Reports Over 70 Domains Have Been Seized By Homeland Security
The other day we wrote about 9 domain names that were seized by the HomeLand Security Department based on selling or helping the transfer of copyrighted material or selling allegedly fake designer goods Now according to AVN the number of seized domains and sites appear to be closer to 70 than to 9. The seizures which all took place by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)which is … [Read more...]