Over the past week, 752 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. This amounts to $49.8m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. “Congratulations to the buyer of novigo.com: The buyer is a global consulting firm based in California and providing information technology services. Formerly called GOPA IT … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Registrars Where You Can Place Pre-Reservations On New gTLD Domain Names
We have updated this post which was published a couple of months ago adding registrars that are now taking pre-orders or pre-reservations on New gTLD domain names. Pre-orders or pre-reservation require a form or payment while expressions of interest do not After I wrote the post that 1and1.com topped over 2 Million new gTLD domain name pre-reservations (actually now over 2.15) I got a few … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse & Opens Up Comment Period
ICANN authorized a study conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, to analyze gTLD domain names to measure whether the percentage of privacy/proxy use among domains engaged in illegal or harmful Internet activities is significantly greater than among domain names used for lawful Internet activities. Furthermore, this study compares these privacy/proxy … [Read more...]
ICANN To Post Redline Changes To New gTLD Registry Contracts
According to a post by ICANN on its site it will start publishing redline versions of executed Registry Agreements as it " would be helpful to the entire ICANN community, and would also support ICANN's efforts to provide operational transparency". "Published redlined versions will highlight changes between an executed agreement and the current standard 2013 Registry Agreement. " "Redlined … [Read more...]
Are These The 107 New gTLD Extensions Donuts Partnered With Demand Media On?
Donuts.co which applied for 307 new gTLD strings has stated all along that they were in partnership with Demand Media (DMD) on 107 of the applications. However I do not think Donuts or Demand have publicly stated which of the 107 new gTLD's that Donuts applied for that they are in a partnership with Demand Media on. Looking through some new gTLD applications today I found that 107 … [Read more...]
Come Join Me At The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress In London On Thursday
Tonight I'm jumping the pond and heading over to London for the Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress which is being held in at the Park Plaza Victoria in London on Thursday and Friday. "Back by popular demand and building off of the success of the inaugural Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress that was held in New York in March, Momentum is pleased to offer you the Digital … [Read more...]
Techstars Acquires NameLayer to Bring Premium Domain Names to its Portfolio
According to a blog post on its company blog, Techstars has acquired the entire portfolio of NameLayer, a popular inventory of brandable domain names curated for the tech market. NameLayer was founded by Julian Shapiro and Edward Zeiden in 2011 as the commercialization of Shapiro’s domain aftermarket algorithms that were designed to find the needles in the domain market haystack. S ome … [Read more...]