NameJet reports $836,000 in reported sales for January. It was another strong month for short names as 34 out of the 83 reported names were 6 characters or less, including the top 7 sales. January sales above $2,000: Domain Name Payment … [Read more...]
ICANN’s Sweetheart Of A Contract To PowerAuctions Covers All Costs & Gives Them 10’s Of Million In Upside
On 13 September 2013, ICANN entered into what may well be the most lucrative contract ever granted in ICANN's history with Power Auctions LLC to conduct its Last Resort Auctions for new gTLD strings with more than one applicant. Under the ICANN rules if there is more than one applicant for a particular domain name extension or string otherwise known as a new gTLD,(including those strings found … [Read more...]
Are The Days Of Outrageously Expensive Super Bowl Commercials Over ?
Avi Dan wrote a piece for Forbes on whether the days of big money ads on Super Bowl Sunday are over. Of course looking at a game that was a blowout makes those people who had an ad running in the fourth quarter cringe. They paid the big bucks for a much smaller audience. Dan wrote in his piece: The CMOs of Audi, Intuit , T-Mobile, Chobani, Kia, Sprint, Heinz, Honda, Chrysler, Microsoft … [Read more...]
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.95 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/27/14 – 2/2/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,954,130. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Picnic.co & Random.co each for $9,999. Below is the complete report: .COM … [Read more...]
Seddo Transactions Total $1.1 Million
Over the past week, 728 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $11 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: btb.com at 38,350 USD · Top ccTLD: sandwich.co at 18,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: singular.net at 13,400 USD Domain … [Read more...]
European Commission Weights In On ICANN Last Resort Auction & They Are Not Happy
The European Commission filed a comment on the recently updated ICANN’s New gTLD Auction Rules. To summarize the European Commission is "deeply concerned about the implications that the Auction Rules in the gTLD program may have for the protection of public policy interests, competition, openness and innovation." "ICANN should implement Auction Rules that are consistent with its Bylaws, … [Read more...]
UDRP Filed On Y8.Net; EntourageMovie.com; EntourageFilm.com
A few interesting UDRP filed today. Web Entertainment, LLC filed a UDRP on the domain name y8.net Y8.net is a gaming site, so is Y8.com which is owned under privacy. UDRP filed on Two character domain names are pretty rare so we will keep on our eye on this one. ON another note if your a fan of the HBO series Entourage you may know that they started the filming of the Entourage movie … [Read more...]