Nicenic.net put out a post today about some recent Chinese names that sold at auction. These were names that were not reserved by CNNIC. The first number is the sale price in Chinese Yuan, for the top 10 sales I converted to US Dollars. The conversion rate of roughly 1Chinese Yuan = .1624 USD 126.cn 680,000 $110,432 rose.cn 480,000 $77,952 ku.cn 234,000 … [Read more...]
If You Pre-Ordered One Of These .Sexy Domains Don’t Blame Uniregistry Blame Your Registrar
So a lot of people seem to be disappointed not getting the .Sexy domain name they pre-ordered. Including myself. While many names seemed to be reserved by the registry over 6,500 domains were blocked by the ICANN collision report. Each new gTLD had the option of either launching now, subject to its turn and not allowing registrations of any domain name contained on the collision list for … [Read more...]
.Wiki Will Be CentralNic’s First New gTLD to launch, followed by .XYZ
CentralNic's first new gTLD to launch will be .wiki, which takes a term that is synonymous with online collaboration and high quality websites, and makes it available for the use of companies, developers, communities and hobbyists alike. The first .wiki domains will be available to trademark holders on 3 March when it starts it Sunrise Period, and to others from 8 May. This will be followed … [Read more...]
Mt. Gox Files For Bankruptcy Protection Loses 850,000 Bitcoins, 750,000 Of Customers
Mt.Gox the largest Bitcoin exchanged filed for bankruptcy protection overnight claiming it has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million. The company disclosed that it had lost 850,000 units of Bitcoin, including 750,000 belonging to customers worth about $477 million, based on current exchange rates. Mt. Gox, at one point handled more than 80% of trades in the virtual currency. … [Read more...]
Marchex’s Archeo Clarifies 4th Q Sales
Last week we reported on Marchex earnings which included its Archeo division sold a total of 262 domain names in the 4th Quarter that yielded $1.6 million. At the time we noted that the average sales price of domain names in 4Q was just over $6,100 per domain name which was well below the average price the company sold its domains in the third quarter of 2013. Today we received … [Read more...]
AO.com Founder Now Worth $900 Million Purchased The Domain For Around $600K Last Year
Earlier today we wrote about AO.com going public making the founder a very wealthy guy. George Kirikos just found out that the domain was recently acquired by the company in March 2013 for approximately £391,000, which based on the exchange rate of £1.5205 the domain sold for just about $600,000. George notes that on Page 104 of the AO.com prospectus, they bought 2 domains for £391,000 … [Read more...]
The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names
The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only ones using .Paris domain names, and will participate in all events around the launch of .Paris. The 100 pioneers were selected by a Jury which used several criteria mentioned in the call for proposals Pioneers : • The candidate must … [Read more...]