In a blog post, DomainIndex.com looked at seasonality in parking revenues and concluded what most of us long time domainers already knew. The summer months are the slowest and the Winter months of November- February are the strongest months of the year for parking revenues. In its post DomainIndex.com write: "We have been able to use a database of 137,000 parked domains across many … [Read more...]
UDRP Roundup: Oprah Gets Control Over 2 Domains & Walmart Gets 53 Domains
There were several interesting UDRP results today as Oprah Winfrey's Harpo, Inc./Oprah's Farm, LLC won a UDRP to the right to the domain names oprahsfarm.com and oprahsfarm.net The Euro Watergate Hotel Residences, LLC Watergate Holdings, LLC UDRP for the domain names and watergatehotel.com and thewatergatehotel.com was terminated with the transfer of the domains to the lawfirm presumably … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Weekly Transactions Total $1.2 Million/ $32.7 Million For The Year
Sedo just reported 743 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. Sedo also reported that their "annual year-to-date sales revenue" was $32.7 Million however as we know the weekly Sedo reports include transaction they just act as escrow agents on and I'm not sure if this figure includes solely sales or includes all transaction. Just under 47% of total … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million Led By Quif.com At $20K
Afternic.com just released its weekly report for the week of 6/10/13 – 6/16/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,202,401 All sales were led by Quif.com which sold for $20,000. Non-.com sales were led by Knowledge.info at $12,000 Note as a change this week, any domain name that was sold on Namejet.com is noted with a … [Read more...]
Is Kayne West & Kim Kardashian Baby’s Name Already Registered, Parked & For Sale?
According to Inquisitr.com, Kayne West and Kim Kardashian have named their new baby Kaidence Donda West. The domain name KaidenceDondaWest.com was registered today under privacy at Godaddy.com and is parked at Bodis.com and for sale for just $100. Another publication mediatakeout.com, speculated the name of the baby was Klementine Star West noting that the domain names klementinewest.com … [Read more...]
Radix Registry Announces Launch of Pre-Registration for .host Domains
According to press release, Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD are pleased to announce the launch of pre-registration for .host domain names. .Host is the new TLD created specifically for the hosting industry, and one of three uncontested strings applied by Radix. Radix is the only applicant for the new gTLD .host but there are three applicants for the new gTLD … [Read more...]
Google Withdraws New gTLD Application For Contested Application .Goo
Google has withdrawn its first application since ICANN started releasing Initial Evaluations (IE) dropping its application for .Goo. Google's application had a prioritization number of 1,814. There is another application for .Goo which was filed by NTT Resonant Inc.of Japan. NTT has filed a Legal Rights Objection against Google over its .Goo application which is now shown as withdrawn … [Read more...]