OpenRegistry SA, ” announced today in a press release, is has raised capital “from strategic investors including DomainTools (www.domaintools.com) and that DomainTools.com will be getting a seat on the Board.” OpenRegistry provides…
John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation: “I Don’t Think Domain Names Are Necessary”
John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier foundation was the keynote speaker at the Dot Nxt show this morning and pretty much blasted the new gTLD program, ICANN and domain names in…
Rob Hall Of Pool.com on The Coming New gTLD’s : If I Was A Big Domain Holder I Would Start Dumping Domains
Today at opening session of the Dot Nxt conference entitled: Setting the Scene, a questions was asked what would you tell large domain holders in anticipation of hundreds or thousands of new…
Don’t Hate The Extension, Hate The Lousy Domains; Godaddy’s .Expired Co Auction Shows You What Crap People Registered On Day 1
Yesterday as many of you know was the day that the first day that .Co drop auctions closed on Godaddy. Thousand and thousands of non-renewed .Co domains dropped and were on Godaddy.com…
Google To Pay U.S. $500 Million To Settle “illegal” Pharmacy Ads
According to the Wall Streeet Journal, Google has agreed to pay $500 Million dollars to the US government to avoid prosecution over allegations that it knowingly accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in…
Afternic.com Sells $525K In Domains Led By YouPrint.com For $12k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday August 21st. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $524,472. The top seller of the week was YouPrint.com at $12,000 followed…
Sedo.com Sells $730K In Domains Led By ZY.com For $106K
Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday August 22nd. All reportable domain sales totalled $729,561 USD. The top seller of the week was ZY.com at $105,999 followed by…