Welcome to the Daily Roundup for September 1, 2016 We took a break for the month of August with so many out doing other things but now we will be back with a Daily post. Domain movements spotted by Mike Former Marchex domain names sold by @GoDaddy/ @namefind: WantYou.com Worldstudy.com AnySearch. com Guaranteedresults. com Interpreneur. com Sportagent. com Spygirl. … [Read more...]
Ransom Paid for DavidAndGoliath.com
Usually a company wants to find it's way to owning a short LL or LLL.com domain name. They have a long multi word name that many find arduous to constantly type out, especially on mobile. Well one El Segundo-based ad agency wanted the exact opposite. David & Goliath had to "settle" for DNG.com because they could not get DavidAndGoliath.com. The domain was owned by another ad agency out of … [Read more...]
Sabal Capital Management Reduces It Stake In Rightside by 10%
According to tradecalls.com; Sabal Capital Management reduced its stake in Rightside Group Ltd by 10.0% during the most recent quarter end. The investment management company now holds a total of 312,868 shares of Rightside Group Ltd which is valued at $3,707,486 after selling 34,746 shares in Rightside Group Ltd , the firm said in a disclosure report filed with the SEC on Aug 12, … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Sales Led by DataMesh.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales this week and the top sale was DataMesh.com for $25,000. Very few other gtld sales this week, acutally only three. Top .com: datamesh.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD: cycle.in at 16,500 USD Top “other” TLD: ehf.org at 9,888 USD .COMs datamesh.com 25,000 USD stylebooks.com 11,995 USD hyphy.com 10,000 USD planetprint.com 5,500 … [Read more...]
Verisign Announces Korean .닷컴 and .닷넷 Domains Are Now Available for General Registration
Today, Verisign announce that .닷컴 and .닷넷, the localized versions of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) in Hangul script, are now open for the registration of domain names by the general public on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to availability and the applicable registry policies.* The General Registration Period for .닷컴 and .닷넷 began at 00:00:00 UTC on Aug. 30, 2016, … [Read more...]
Rightside Closes Down 12.92% on Heavy Volume
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) closed down $1.41 or 12.92% on Monday. The volume was substantially higher than the average daily volume of 52,197 coming in at 865,348. The shares traded as low as $8.79. This was the biggest volume day since June 24 and one of the biggest volume days all year. DomainNameWire.com reported on August 12, that Daniel Negari and Mike Ambrose sold $2 million worth of … [Read more...]
Conference Attendees Will Be Able to Ask that Man “Why are you dropping 70,000 .cc domains ?”
One of the hot stories last week was that a Chinese investor known as "Booksir" was dropping 70,000 .cc domains that he paid 120 CNY per .cc for. This works out to approximately $1.25 in domain spend. He announced this on WeChat. Booksir's real name is Liangji Zhuang and he has a lot more on his plate. According to the recent DN.com newsletter, "Booksir has been one of the first domain veterans … [Read more...]