Domain name investor Daniel Thralow may have made one of the great flips of all time on the domain name Internet.org which Facebook Founder Mark Zuckberberg announced last night was the name of his project to bring the Internet to the 5 billion people who don't have access. The domain was sold by Andrew Rosener of Media Options Inc in July who just acquired it back in April. The domain was … [Read more...]
Facebook’s Zuckberberg Plans To Connect The World Using Internet.Org; Owned By Andrew Rosener Until July
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday announced on his Facebook page, the formation of a partnership with Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Qualcomm Ericsson, MediaTek and Opera to develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize industry and governments to bring the world online,and to make Internet access available to everyone on Earth. The group is rolling this program out under the … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.425 Million In Domains Including A $500K Sale
Afternic’s published its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 8/12/13 – 8/18/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,425,642. This total included a $500k+ private transaction. The reportable transactions were led by HJX.com which sold for $29,000 which looks like it sold through Godaddy.com … [Read more...]
Namejet Announces Auction of Top Tier Afternic.com Domain Names
Namejet.com just announced it was holding an domain name auction of some of Afternic.com "top tier" domain names: "Afternic and NameJet have partnered together to offer this exclusive list of generic, brandable domains in auction. " "All domains are exclusively available at NameJet and are priced to sell with very low reserves. " "The first auctions begin August 23rd with the final … [Read more...]
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million Led By Mkt.com For $35,000
Sedo just published its weekly list of domain name transaction and in all 693 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. "This amounts to $43,2m in year-to-date sales revenue. "Over 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. "Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: mkt.com at 35,000 USD · Top ccTLD: openenglish.ru … [Read more...]
Adidas/Reebok Files Federal Lawsuit Over 372 Domain Names Under ACPA
Sports equipment maker Adidas which owns Reebok filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of 372 domain names including .com's, .net's .org's .info's .biz and even co.uk and .Eu domain names in the Florida Southern District Court. Adidas is asking for statutory damages of $100,000 each under the ACPA as well as forfeiture of the domain names and its attorney fees. Here are the domains which … [Read more...]
Tucows.com Shares Hit 52 Week High
Shares of Tucows.com (TCX) hit a 52 week high in trading today. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.31 which is a 52 week high. As of publication Tucows.com is trading at $2.26 up $.10 on the day and has a trading range today of $2.10 to $2.31 Tucows.com has a market cap of $93 million dollars. Tucows.com 52 week low was $1.05 making a very nice return for investors. Tucows … [Read more...]