Sedo.com just published their domain transactions for the week 10/7/13 – 10/13/13 totaling $1MM. Over the past week, 698 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1MM. This amounts to $53.1MM in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .coms: … [Read more...]
Teen.XXX Sells For $400K; 3 More Domains For $200K & Really Useful Says .XXX Performing Better Than .Com’s
According to a press release we just received from ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry, Really Useful Limited, which is one of the world’s leading adult producers, has invested over $600,000 in new .XXX domains buying Teen.XXX for $400,000 and acquired Mature.xxx, Bdsm.xxx and PublicSex.xxx for an additional $200,000 With these purchases JT has invested over $800,000 in .XXX Premium … [Read more...]
CADNA Calls On Congress To Increase Cybersquatting Penalties Under The ACPA & Include Registrars/Registries
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) posted a story on its site, written by Warren Communications News, Inc., which quotes Josh Bourne Director of CADNA: "The problem of cybersquatting is going to "explode by at least 2,500 percent when new gTLDs go live" "CADNA will start a letter-writing campaign and continue to seek a sponsor for a revision to 1999's Anticybersquatting … [Read more...]
Elliot’s Blog Rebrands as DomainInvesting.com
Popular domain investing website, Elliot's Blog has rebranded and re-launced today as DomainInvesting.com. Elliot's Blog, was established in 2007 by Internet entrepreneur and domain investor Elliot Silver. The rebranded website was launched this morning, and visitors to the ElliotsBlog.com domain name are now automatically redirected to the DomainInvesting.com website. Elliot say "I privately … [Read more...]
BGC Rejects Reconsideration Requests: 2 Panels Can Come To Different Decisions on Same Strings: Even The BGC
The Board Governance Committee (BGC) of ICANN rejected two request for reconsideration (“Request”) over two decisions by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”) One request was brought by Amazon over the decision sustaining Commercial Connect LLC’s (“Commercial Connect”) objection to Amazon’s new gTLD application for the Japanese translation of “online shopping” (“Amazon’s … [Read more...]
Inc. Asks Do You Really Need A .Com
In a post tonight Inc.com asks Do you Really Need A .Com? "If you've started a business any time in the last 15 to 20 years, you've probably struggled with the same issue. There's the-name-you-wish-you-could-have.com but you can't have it because someone else already does. There's … [Read more...]
Demand Media CEO & Chairman Rosenblatt Resigns
Demand Media (DMD) CEO and Chairman Richard Rosenblatt resigned today. The resignation of CEO is effective October 31, 2013, and as Chairman is effective immediately The board has appointed Shawn Colo as interim President, effective immediately, and as interim CEO, to be effective upon Mr. Rosenblatts resignation. James Quandt has been appointed Chairman, effective immediately. The … [Read more...]