The domain name LIU.com just sold for $155,688 on Namejet.com The auction was basically between 2 bidders from the reserve price which seemed to be around $133K. The last few days have seen some nice domain name sales at Namejet.com Jhao.com sold for $50,000 Liang.com Sold For $45,000 Juggs.com sold for $41,600 … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule
Uniregistry, Corp. ("Uniregistry"), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD Last Resort ICANN auction rules Uniregistry says it "is disappointed that ICANN changed the "5-TLD-per-month" cap from its initial proposal." "On the current … [Read more...]
Sedo’s Transactions Total Over $2.5 Million In Domains On Just 572 Domains
Sedo just released its weekly report for the week of January 6th, 2014- January 13, 2014. In all just 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.5 Million Dollars. All sales were let by JCT.com which sold for $98,000 which sold to Junction Investments, Inc of San Fransisco. In a very nice .biz sale the domain llc.biz sold for $23,520 The highly … [Read more...]
Net Neutrality Ruled Unenforceable
Net Neutrality looks like it could be in danger of being defeated. From NPR: In a landmark ruling Tuesday, a federal appeals court has struck down key parts of the Federal Communications Commission's open-Internet rules, effectively ruling that the federal government cannot enforce net neutrality. Put more simply, it can't require that Internet service providers treat all traffic … [Read more...]
Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013
Sedo put out a press release today looking back at their 2013 as related to domain sales. Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013 Leading Marketplace Books Nearly Twice as Many Top 100 Sales as Nearest Competitor and Four Times More Non-.Com Sales Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, maintained its market leading position in 2013, according to the … [Read more...]
Chicago Sun-Times to test Bitcoin and Twitter paywall with startup BitWall
The Chicago Sun-Times, the 9th largest newspaper in the USA, is testing a social paywall that will accept both Tweets and Bitcoin in partnership with the content monetization startup BitWall. For 24 hours on February 1st, 2014, Chicago Sun-Times readers will be prompted to donate Bitcoins to or Tweet about the Taproot Foundation to test the functionality and acceptance of Bitcoins on the … [Read more...]
“In the face of confusion, people will default to something they trust and understand”
George Pongas is the general manager for Aus Registry, AusRegistry is the current registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial .au (Australia) domain names including .com.au and .net.au, and non commercial domain names .gov.au and edu.au. He recently posted something on the Aus Registry website with regards to 2013 being a good year for .au domains. He makes mention of the new … [Read more...]