Over the past week Sedo had 499 transactions take place on the marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Top .com: newy.com at 66,000 USD Top ccTLD: stier.de at 7,500 EUR Top "other" TLD: upl.org at 9,888 USD Only one new gtld sale this week Red.Blue for $999. .De and .Co dominated the country code … [Read more...]
Brand Blunders: Domino’s Files UDRP To Get The Domain Dominos.Pizza: Wynn On Wynn.Vegas
Domino's pizza has filed a UDRP to gain control of the new gTLD domain name Dominos .Pizza. For me its another huge brand failure to protect a brand, on a bang on new gTLD domain. Last week we saw what happened when Bloomberg allowed a third party to register Bloomberg.Market by failing to register the domain name in Sunrise which led to a huge swing in the price of Twitter when a story on … [Read more...]
Google Answers The Question Of How Will It Rank New gTLD’s: .Brands Get No Extra Weight
Google published a post today on how will Google rank new gTLD's. ""With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), we'd like to give some insight into how these are handled in Google's search. We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs, for example: Q: How will new gTLDs … [Read more...]
Owner of e-renter.com Found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on erenter.com
E-Renter USA Ltd. of Bellingham, Washington, represented by Brownlie Evans Wolf & Lee, LLP, was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name erenter.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc.and was represented by ESQwire.com The three member UDRP panel of Nicholas Smith, Debra J. Stanek and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that since the domain name registrations are … [Read more...]
.Sucks Tops 6,000 Registrations: Will It Be The Most Profitable New gTLD?
.Sucks has now passed 6,000 registered domain names. According to ntldstats.com .Sucks has 6,153 domain name registered. We know that around 3,400 domain names were registered in Sunrise for up to $2,000 wholesale. That is almost $7 Million dollars if they were all at $2K, which they should be since the Sunrise period was only opened to those in the Trademark Clearinghouse (THCH) … [Read more...]
Google May Offer Custom Gmail Addresses for as low as $2 A Month
Kishalaya Kundu wrote on AndroidHeadlines.com that Google may start offering custom Gmail addresses for as low as $2 a month. Kundu referenced a report from GSM Arena who actually got screenshots before Google removed the information. From the article: Google is seemingly prepping to offer custom email addresses to Gmail users for as low as $2 per month, if a new report on GSMArena is … [Read more...]
XR.com Hits The Auction Block on NameJet – Will it go higher than SX.com ?
On the heels of the biggest auction ever on NameJet, SX.com, XR.com will now be hitting the aution block. The domain has been registered since 1999 and the most recent screenshot shot showed an asking price of $749,900. XR.COM NameJet just recently had our biggest auction ever with sale of SX.COM at $555,050! Now we have in our inventory another unique and extremely valuable domain name, … [Read more...]