ICANN just approved its 2014 budget which is coming in at over $200,000,000 in revenue. The budget anticipates ICANN staff growing to over 300 people but the real kicker, in our opinion is that ICANN still has virtually no revenue allocated coming in from the "Last Resort" New gTLD auctions. We have noted in past years that ICANN has not allocated any revenue coming in for auction of new … [Read more...]
Dog Days Of Summer? Fourth $50K+ Domain Sale Of The Day, As 22 Year Old Domain DPC.com Sells For $60K
August is usually referred to as the dog days of summer ,where not much is happening in business and typically domain sales slow up. However we can now report the 4th closed sale of a domain name today of $50,000 or more, as Sedo.com which is on fire this wee,k just reported the domain name DPC.com sold for $60,000. The domain name DPC.com was owned by Clover Technologies Group of Ottawa, … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.1 Million In Domains Led By Name Administration’s Sale Of Fab.Net For $39,000
Afternic.com just reported fits weekly domain sales for the week of 8/19/13 – 8/25/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,108,62 All sales were led by a Net, in this case Fab.net which was sold by Frank Schilling's Name Administration's For $39,000. All .com sales were led by a Tucows.com owned domain DreamLover.com which sold … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells Deco.com For $100,000; Fork.com For $50,000
In its second $100,000 sale reported today, Sedo.com has sold the domain name Deco.com for $100,000. Earlier today we reported that Godaddy.com sold OPS.com through a Sedo MLS listing for $100,000. Neither of these two sales is included in this weeks Sedo.com report. The seller of Deco.com was BlackHawk Industrial of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The domain is currently going to a … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Totals $1.7 Million on Only 646 Transactions
Sedo just reported that 646 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling last week totaling $1.7 Million It appears there was another big sale last week based on those numbers, I'm trying to see if I can get any more information. Afternic.com last week reported that it sold a domain for $500,000 but it could not release the domain This amounts to $45m in … [Read more...]
Garry Chernoff Sells OPS.com For $100,000 On Godaddy.com
The domain name OPS.com just sold on Godaddy.com for $100,000 coming through Sedo.com system. Sedo.com announced the sale on its Facebook page just a short time ago. The owner of the domain name is long time domain investor Garry Chernoff's company NetIncome Ventures Inc. The domain name has an original registration date of 1994. As with any three letter domain name there are thousands … [Read more...]
Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) Supports NTAG Letter on Name Collision; Except For Verisign
In a comment posted on ICANN website concerning the new gTLD name collision report, the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) issued a consensus statement that they support the letter submitted by the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) asking ICANN to allow the 20% of new gTLD applications classified as :Unknown Risk” In the Collision Report To Move Forward. The vote for the proposal by RySG has … [Read more...]