The domain name Ringtones.com just sold on Namejet.com for $105,000. The reserve price seemed to be $100,000. In all there were 218 bidders and the bidder with the id easydomains won the domain name auction with a bid of $105K The domain name has an Estibot.com value of $909,000 Ringtones.com sold at Sedo back in 2010 for $750,000 although it's not clear if the buyer of the domain … [Read more...]
How Whoosh Inc. Bought Whoosh.com from Directv
The following is an interview I did with Whoosh! Inc’s Jason Greenspan who I had noticed recent acquired the generic exact match .com domain name they have been attempting to acquire for the past 2.5 years. I tried to ask questions to give you insight into how, why and when. This is how it happened and a bit more about the company, its product and the domain names they own. When was Whoosh Inc. … [Read more...]
Mike Mann Sells Fun.co For $70,000
Mike Mann announced that his DomainMarket.com sold the domain Fun.co for $70,000 The domain name was "purchased a while back" according to Mike Mann. This .co domain represents the 9th highest .Co domain sale according to Estibot and the highest domain sale by DomainMarket.com since Business.co which sold for … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Rejects Fashion Television’s Attempt To Grab Fashion.tv
Fashion Television International Limited has lost it's attempt to grab the domain name Fashion.tv in a UDRP basically letting a pending court case in Munich decide the fate of the domain fashion.tv We wrote about this UDRP when it was filed a couple of months ago There was a report that Fashion.tv was purchased in 2014 for $125,000 but that does not seem to be correct, according to the facts … [Read more...]
Sedo Weekly Sales Come in Strong at $2.2million led by NKB.com
Over the past week Sedo saw 596 transactions take place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. $2.2 million is a big week as last week was only $1million. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: nkb.com at 31,000 USD Top ccTLD: tires.ae at 22,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: dami.net at 18,000 EUR New gTLD Sales … [Read more...]
AT & T Researchers Look at Spotting Malicious Domains Using Word Segmentation
Two researchers from AT & T, Wei Wang and Kenneth E. Shirley had a domain related paper published on the Cornell University website ArXiv.org. The paper looks at whether using certain word patterns and data can be useful in spotting malicious domains. From the paper: In recent years, vulnerable hosts and maliciously registered domains have been frequently involved in mobile attacks. In … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD
On today's DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not "registered" by Uniregistry until the day before it transferred to FTD. The domain … [Read more...]