GoDaddy.com and Afternic.com just issued its first combined weekly domain sales list since Godaddy acquired Afternic.com Here are the reportable or the week of 9/30/13 – 10/6/13 Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1,000, summed to $1,625,913. All sales were led by Skylofts.com which was bought by MGM whose MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas has been … [Read more...]
ICANN Sends Out 1st Community Priority Evaluation Invitations; .Immo & .Taxi
ICANN has invited eligible community applicants to elect Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) as a potential method to resolve string contention. Today, the first two invitations were sent via ICANN's Customer Portal to STARTING DOT on its .IMMO application, and Taxi Pay GmbH application for .Taxi All invited applicants will have up to 21 calendar days to elect to proceed with CPE and … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Holding its 1st Ever .US Domain Name Auction
For the very first time, NameJet is offering .US domains on our auction platform. "These exclusive domains are priced to sell at no or low reserves, between now and … [Read more...]
Afilias .Info Domain Auction Ends On SnapNames Today & Total Bids Are Under $5K
The domain name auction of registry owned .Info domains closes on SnapNames.com in a few hours and as of time of publication bids for all 25 domain names in the auction total less than $5,000. The auction closes at 3:15pm EST in according with SnapNames.com closing procedure. All the domains are lead by Immo.info at $1,001. Immo is the French word for Real Estate. There are … [Read more...]
After 12 Years & Over 70 UDRP’s Sony Finally Gets Around To Filing A UDRP On SonyStore.com
Sony has over 35 retail stores in the United States which sell just Sony Products and they are called Sony Stores. The official website for the stores is store.sony.com. So its pretty mind blowing to see that it took Sony over 12 years to file a UDRP on this direct match .com domain of its actual Brick and Mortar stores. The domain name was registered in 2001 and owned by a company in … [Read more...]
Google Backs Off On Closed Generic Strings Including .Search So Does L’Oréal
It looks like Google has given up operating new gTLD generic stings as a close registry, even for .Search which at one point it wanted to operate as a Dotless Domain. According to an ICANN's announcement tonight Google d/b/a Charleston Road Registry has backed off the close generic string application for: .MOVE; .MUSIC; .MAIL; .MAP; .STORE; .SHOP; .BABY; .SHOW; .BOOK; .GAME; .CPA; APP; … [Read more...]
Brazilian Senate Formally Opposes Amazon’s Application For .Amazon
In a letter sent from the BRAZILIAN EMBASSY in Washington today to ICANN, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Defense of the Brazilian Senate formally opposed the application of Amazon to the new gTLD .Amazon I would love to know the number of domain holders, brand holders and Internet based company that are located in the Amazon forest in Brazil. I can't image that the Amazon … [Read more...]