 | Redesigned Fabulous.com and DomainDistribution.com Launched Dark Blue Sea, parent company to Fabulous.com and DomainDistribution.com, released newly updated sites for both services today. Domain name registrar Fabulous.com announced new enhanced security features and whois privacy just short of two weeks ago. The new Fabulous site coincides with the launch of these new features and gives the...
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 | GetARoom.com sells for $30,000 USD (and others) The Sedo sales for the week of June 22nd are highlighted by the sale of a slogan domain for $30,000 USD: GetARoom.com. While the name just redirects to RoomValues.com, I wouldn’t be too surprised to see it used more prominently in the future. Sedo also sold two .co.uk Domains (HorseRacing.co.uk and OnlineCasino.co.uk) at 100,00...
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 10:36 |
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 | AfternicDLS sells domains for $496,780.78 In the week up to June 22nd, 2009, AfternicDLS sold 334 domains for a total of $496,780.78 USD with an average price of $1,487.37 per domain. The .COM chart was lead by AuctionCalender.com ($10,000.00), haunthunter.com ($8,800.00) and carbonresearch.com ($6,488.00). The top three sales in other TLDs were MassageOil.org for $5,288.00...
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 10:27 |
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 | Domain Roundtable Extended Auction Brings in $81,774 The Domain Roundtable extended auction ended Tuesday night with little fanfare. An additional 54 domain names sold with a total take of $81,774. From our observations of the auction proceedings, all but one of the domain names that sold went for the proxy bid prices that were entered before the finale of the auction began.
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 1:55 |
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 | Domain Roundtable Silent Auction ends today The 2009 Domain Roundtable Silent Auction on Aftermarket.com ends today at 5pm EDT.
Please find the full list of domains in the auction after the jump, names marked in bold have reached their reserve.
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HolidayLoan.com (ICA)
$150
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SleepSafe.com (ICA)
$150
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LikeHer.net (ICA)
$0
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PlasticSurgeryWebsite.com (ICA)
$0
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| Domain Name News - Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 9:54 |
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 | Congratulations Mr and Mrs. Kettner ! We’d like to send out a big congratulations to DNN writer Chad Kettner and his new wife Rachel. The couple tied the knot today in their hometown of Kelowna, BC. Chad has been writing for us for over a year now and he’s a valuable part of the DNN family. Congratulations Chad !
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| Domain Name News - Sunday, June 21, 2009 - 15:7 |
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 | (Live) Frank Michlick Is Co-Hosting Bido Chat Frank Michlick of DNN.com is currently co-hosting the Bido.com auction for the domain name Craftsman.tv.
Click here to visit the auction and submit your questions to Frank by clicking on the “Chat” tab above the domain description.
The chat, which started at 1:00 pm Eastern Time, will continue until 2:00 pm.
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| Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 13:18 |
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 | TRAFFIC Conference Teams Up With Rick Latona - 6 Shows Planned For 2010 Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu of TRAFFIC Conference have announced a new partnership with RickLatona.com to take the conference around the world - including an expanded 2010 schedule that will visit Las Vegas, Amsterdam, Toronto, Reykjavik (Iceland), South Florida, and Hong Kong.
“We want to break down the walls of the domain in...
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 12:47 |
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 | Domain Roundtable 2009 Live Auction Results We will be were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at Domain Roundtable in Washington, DC for Thought Convergence’s Aftermarket.com Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction, which goes until June 24.
The live auction sold 39...
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 16:7 |
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 | Jonathan Fram Resigns from Marchex’s Board of Directors In a regulatory filing on June 15, Marchex announced that Jonathan Fram resigned from its board of directors and pointed out that his decision “was not as a result of any disagreement with the Company or its management.”
Fram, who is currently a Managing Partner at Maveron, had served on the Marchex board since 2003. He
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 15:51 |
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 | Targeted TRAFFIC ccTLDs extended auction results The extended Targeted TRAFFIC ccTLD auction by RickLatona.com ended yesterday and yielded another 75,501 Euros (appx. 105,000 USD) from the sales of 28 domains. The pair of Blackjack.co.za and Casinos.co.za yielded the highest price with a total 35,000 Euros (appx. 48,600 USD). All in all for Rick’s first pure ccTLD live and ex...
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 9:42 |
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 | SexToys.com.au Sells for $25,500, New Aussie Aftermarket Record SexToys.com.au sold for $25,500 on Netfleet.com.au last week, setting a new Australian domain name aftermarket record and signaling a new sense of optimism in the marketplace.
“If you’d asked me a couple of months ago I probably would have been a little disappointed [in the market],” said David Lye, the chief execut...
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 5:42 |
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 | Domain Roundtable Auction adds Yahoo!’s Contests.com The Aftermarket.com auction at DomainRoundtable in the coming week has just added the name “Contests.com” from the premium domain portfolio of Yahoo! to their lineup. The domain is listed with a reserve price of $150,000 USD. Yahoo! had recently sold the wp.com domain name for an undisclosed amount to Wordpress.
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| Domain Name News - Friday, June 12, 2009 - 13:52 |
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 | Sedo Sells 141 Domains for Over $500,000 This week Sedo sold 141 domains for over $500,000 including Vender.com for $33,000, Attorneys.org for $28,900, and SpinAndWin.com for $28,000 (€20,000).
Check out the full list of sales results after the jump…
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vender.com
Sedo
33,000
USD
Facing in Danish
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| Domain Name News - Friday, June 12, 2009 - 4:51 |
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 | Rick Latona Extended ccTLD Auction Ends Monday The Rick Latona extended auction for over 1100 premium ccTLD domain names ends on Monday, June 15, at 5pm Eastern Time.
Some of the valuable domain names still open for bidding include Porno.co.uk, Business.de, IT.co.uk, MortgageBrokers.co.uk, Shop.us, Home.tv, and Men.ca. Plus, DNN’s own Frank Michlick has sofa.es and vende.es...
| Domain Name News - Friday, June 12, 2009 - 3:10 |
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 | Former NYC Mayor Offers His Support For .NYC gTLD Former New York City mayor Ed Koch has offered his support to .NYC LLC in their application for a new .NYC gTLD, saying “.NYC is the best real estate opportunity since the Dutch bought Manhattan… [It] will be great - creating jobs and providing much needed money for important city programs. I’ve done my homework
| Domain Name News - Friday, June 12, 2009 - 2:44 |
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 | Domain Roundtable Live Auction List Announced Thought Convergence in association with DomainConsultant has announced the domain selections for the Aftermarket.com Domain Roundtable 2009 Live Auction which will take place both online and on-site in Washington, DC, on June 16 at 4pm Eastern Time.
Check out the full list after the jump or skip ahead to early bidding by clicking he...
| Domain Name News - Friday, June 12, 2009 - 2:36 |
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 | Updates for 2009-06-10
RT @domainnamewire Domaining.com Launches ClosingAuctions.com: - No longer miss great auction deals. #
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RT @CircleID Rumor: Rod Beckstrom Next IC...
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 23:59 |
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 | SitePoint Launches New Website Marketplace SitePoint’s website marketplace has outgrown its tab on SitePoint.com, so the company introduced Flippa.com as its new home.
Aside from a catchy new name, the Flippa.com marketplace also comes with extra features including:
Private Sales as an alternative to Auctions.
Customizable categorization and powerful advanced search.
A...
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 4:58 |
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 | Facebook Vanity UserName Release Details As mentioned previously Facebook is introducing Vanity URLs on Saturday . . .or what they are simply referring to as usernames. Further details of the new usernames was posted on the Facebook blog today and there is a countdown to the Saturday, 12:01 AM EST release date as well.
With over 200 million active users, the
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 1:28 |
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