A UDRP was just filed on the domain name SteelBuildings.com by a public company in the metal building business: The UDRP was filed by NCI Group, Inc. which is publicly traded as NCI Building Systems Inc. (NYSE: NCS) "Founded in 1984, NCI is one of the top designers, manufacturers and vendors of metal coatings, components and buildings for nonresidential construction in North America." The … [Read more...]
Start up Defense.net Covered on Tech Crunch
Its not everyday you see a start up built on a .net, I usually see more built on a .co or .me. Defense.net is a start up focused on DDOS mitigation services. The company got a write up this morning on Tech Crunch. According to Crunchbase the company has raised $9.5 million. Domain wise the domain looks to have been owned by Marchex who sold the domain to the guys from Original.com in November of … [Read more...]
$1277 seems to be a magic number this week, but something does not seem right
In the Sedo weekly sales report it seems a lot of names that should fetch a price far greater than $1277 sold this … [Read more...]
Epic Bet: Name.com Vs. Enom Who You Got?
Rightside, Enom and Name.com is involved in an epic bet between our eNom office in Seattle and our Name.com office in Denver. "So not only will this Sunday spell a showdown for Russell vs. Peyton, but for Registar's eNom vs. Name as well." Below I've posted blog and video links offering the details of our #BigBowlBet. We'll have videos coming all week leading up to Sunday! So we are … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1.7 Million
Over the past week, 769 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 Million 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: true.com at 350,000 USD · Top ccTLD: lotterie.at at 15,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: offer.net at 50,000 USD … [Read more...]
TheDomains.com/Domaining.com Ticker Is Sold Out
We announced the release of the Domaining.com/TheDomains.com new gTLD ticker about two weeks ago and today I'm happy to announce that we are sold out. In announcing the new gTLD ticker that runs on both TheDomains.com and Domaining.com, we said it was going to be strictly limited to 20 strings and today we sold the remaining strings meaning all 20 spots are sold out. If your a registry and … [Read more...]
.Club Sunrise Period Starts Today
.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that it has officially begun its Trademark Sunrise Period. .CLUB Domains also announced it has signed agreements with more than 50 registrars around the world, including Network Solutions, LLC, Register.com MarkMonitor, GoDaddy, Name.com, Melbourne IT, 1and1, … [Read more...]