In a post on Clickz.com, Jennifer Wolfe is founder and president of Wolfe Domain, a gTLD digital brand strategy advisory firm providing comprehensive guidance to global brands, interactive agencies, domain registrars, and legal counsel representatives on establishing a holistic gTLD name-anchored … [Read more...]
Media Options Gets MO.co Domain From .Co Regsitry
Domain brokr MediaOptions.com announced tonight on its Facebook page that is acquired the domain name MO.co from the .Co registry. A press release is expected to be released sometime today, but as of now we don't know what MediaOptions.com paid for Mo.Co and how MediaOptions is planimg on using the premium two letter .Co domain. According to Andrew Rosener post on Facebook: "Press Release … [Read more...]
ICANN Shuts Down Pacman Registrar From New Registrations and Transfers Until At Least Jan 30, 2014
In a letter sent to Pacnames Ltd. of Auckland New Zealand ICAN has sent a NOTICE OF BREACH OF REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION AGREEMENT AND NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF REGISTRAR’S ABILITY TO CREATE NEW REGISTERED NAMES OR INITIATE INBOUND TRANSFERS OF REGISTERED NAMES The current breach is the third breach for Pacnames within a twelve-month period. Accordingly, Pacnames’ ability to create new Registered … [Read more...]
New gTLD Program Committee On Collision Report: Registries Can Launch If They Block A Lot Of Domains/Calls For More Study/.CORP & .HOME Are Doomed
The New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) made its recommendations tonight to the ICANN Board on the Collision report and its pretty messy. In short the NGPC recommends additional study of the issue without a stated time frame, but with the exception of .Corp and .Home which seem to be indefinitely delaye, gives all other registries the option to proceed to delegation prior to receiving its SLD … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $970K
Sedo just published it weekly transactions report Over the past week, 615 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $970,000. This amounts to $52.1 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: chriskay.com at 22,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: … [Read more...]
DomainNameSales Sells $1.5 Million In Domains In Sept Led By DataCenter.com For $190K; Waitress.com $168K
In the first of what appears will be a regular monthly report, DomainNameSales.com reported over $1.5 Million in domain name sales for the month of September 2013, led by DataCenters.com at $190,000 and Waitress.com at $168K Here are all the sale we received and I assume there are more that were under NDA: … [Read more...]
SilkApp.com Changes To Silk.co Gets Another $1.6 Million In Funding & TechCrunch Covers It
TechCrunch.com has just covered the company previously known as Silkapp.com which has just rebranded to Silk.Co and that it raised an additional $1.6 Million in funding to bring it up to a total of $3.7 million in funding According to TC: "Since Silk first came out of stealth mode in 2011, there have been 300,000 interactive pages created on its cloud-based, web data-crunching platform … [Read more...]