 | Domain Madness 2 Auction Runs Until March 23rd
The second Domain Madness Domain Auction has begun and runs until March 23rd with a live stream broadcast from The Palms in Las Vegas. The auction, which is organized by Domain Consultant, appears to be using a customized auction system this year, whereas last year’s auction was held using Though Convergence’s Aftermarket...
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| Sex.com May Not Go to Auction Tomorrow, Involuntary Chapter 11 Filed
According to Sedo and Mike Mann (as reported by Elliot Silver) the auction for Sex.com that is scheduled for tomorrow, may not take place after all. Both sources say that an Involuntary Chapter 11 was filed against Escom, LLC the company that owns the domain. The auction page now states that the auction has been
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| Francois Carrillo Scores Another Nice Domain Flip
Francois Carrillo of PremiumDomains.com and Domaining.com scored another nice flip today selling the one-word domain Optimize.com for $115,000. According to the domain sales history data from NameBio.com Carrillo purchased the domain for $24,650 in February of 2008.
Carrillo recently sold another domain for a quicker flip. He bought...
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 16:16 |
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| SnapNames Showcase Auction – Entertainment & Sports Domains – Ends Today
With just a little over 12 hours left before the auction closes today, the SnapNames auction currently has 24 bids on 523 domains, 21 of the bids coming in under the $1,000 mark. All online auctions are know for last minute bidding, so you can expect more bidding later on today as the auction wraps
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 3:32 |
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| New York Geo Domainers Grab Some Press
This Sunday the NY Daily News wrote a feature called Get Rich With A Click , focusing on several New York geo domainers including Leland Hardy, Larry Fischer and Kevin Cahill. The three featured own NewYork.com, Queens.com and StatenIsland.com respectively. The article is a nice positive piece on the geo domainers. Nice work guys....
| Domain Name News - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 9:37 |
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| ICANN Further Delays .XXX Decision
In today’s ICANN board meeting at the 37th ICANN meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, the board postponed a decision regarding the .XXX sTLD application and directed to solicit public comment for this application within 14 days with a comment period of no less than 45 days, allowing the board to reconsider this issue at the
| Domain Name News - Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:47 |
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| ICANN nixes Expression of Interest for new gTLDs
The ICANN board has voted down the community proposal for Expressions of Interest for new gTLD applicants, requiring a $55,000 application fee. The proposal was mainly driven by proponents and applicants for new gTLDs with the hopes of speeding up the process.
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| Domain Name News - Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:31 |
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| Colbert Report Mocks SurvivalSeedBank.With DomainTools.com Help
DNN’s crack team of roving reporters sent us a tip that Comedy Central’s Colbert Report just gave DomainTools.com some prime placement. In a report on SurvivalSeedBank.com, host Stephen Colbert mocks the website copy which states “If you don’t have the ability to grow your own food next year your life may be ...
| Domain Name News - Friday, March 12, 2010 - 8:47 |
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| Domainer Goes Road Tripping For GM & Charity- #sxswsf
A good friend of DNN’s and domainer (and winner of DomainFest pitchfest) is participating in the GM Road Trip Challenge. They’re competing against other teams to win money for charity. If you want to help their team, you can do so by checking out their site at their cool domain RoadChallenge.com and contributing a comm...
| Domain Name News - Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 18:50 |
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| Huffington Post Gets In On Top Domain Name Story
With the buzz circulating around the upcoming Sex.com sale, mainstream press is picking up the story of “the world’s most expensive domains”. Several people contacted us to tell us about CNN running the Sex.com domain sale on the ticker this morning.
Now HuffPo is getting in on the story with their take on the top...
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 23:45 |
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| Sedo Weekly Sales Chart topped by Guagua.com for $100,000 USD
Sedo sold Guagua.com (several meanings possible) for $100,000. Other notable sales include risultati.it (Results in Italian) for 32,000 Euro (appx. $43,000) Gastronomie.com (gastronomy in German) for 35,000 Euro (appx. 47,500 USD) and Pepe.com for 45,000 Euro (Appx. $61,400 USD). According to Domain Name Wire, the domain name had bee...
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 17:57 |
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| Retweet.com Sells for $250,000
As reported by Mashable Retweet.com Sold for $250,000 on the Flippa.com market place. After receiving bids by 34 bidders up to $202,000, a new bidder joined the auction and bought the site domain for its listed BIN (buy it now) price of $250,000. The identity of the buyer has yet to be revealed.
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| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 17:18 |
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| Social Domainers Launches, Wants to Help Local Domainers to Meet
SocialDomainers.com, a new social network for Social Domainers has just been launched by Tony Kanakaris, a Long Island, New York based domainer. The network was set up in order to help local domainers meet and connect. For today’s launch, the site is giving away an Apple iPad for the 1,000th member to sign up for
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 12:2 |
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| Nominet Considers Release of One and Two Letter Domains
Following the course of other TLDs, such as .DE, Nominet has posted a document for their members and registrars proposing the release of single and double character domain names in the third level of the .UK domain (under co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and .net.uk). The release would exclude some domains that have been registered before the
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 10:11 |
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| National Public Radio’s New URL Shortener Is One Of Shortest Yet
National Public Radio now count themselves as having the tiniest shortened URL for use on Twitter and other social media sites. The organization announced their new domain N.PR yesterday on their blog. The company had been using Stumble Upon’s Su.pr url shortener on most of their Twitter accounts. NPR will continue using npr.o...
| Domain Name News - Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 15:44 |
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| DOMAINfest Europe to be held in Prague on October 6/7
After organizing the largest event for the Domain Industry with their recent DomainFEST Global in Santa Monica, Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor unit has now announced the dates and location for their European event. DOMAINfest Europe will be held from October 6-7th in Prague in the Czech Republic at the InterContinental Hotel. The ...
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 23:14 |
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| DOMAINfest Europe to be held in Prague on October 6/7
After organizing the largest event for the Domain Industry with their recent DomainFEST Global in Santa Monica, Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor unit has now announced the dates and location for their European event. DOMAINfest Europe will be held from October 6-7th in Prague in the Czech Republic at the InterContinental Hotel. The ...
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 23:14 |
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| .Me Makes it Personal
The .ME registry has partnered with NameJet yet again to offer up another batch of .ME domains at auction. This time it’s personal . . . as in personal names. The list of 300 domains includes some of the most popular first and last names such as Adam.Me, Michelle.Me, OConnor.Me, and Smith.Me
The full list of
| Domain Name News - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 11:22 |
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| John Zuccarini vs Office Depot, Collecting On An Old Judgment
John Zuccarini is back in the news fighting against the collection of a judgment by DS Holdings . DSH has been assigned a judgment by Office Depot from 2000 and is seeking to collect by seizing domain names. Zuccarini was found guilty of cybersquatting on Office Depot’s trademark with the domain officdepot.com. In the discove...
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| Congrats to Our Oversee.net Friends Joe and Jessica !
Congratulations go out to DNN’s good friends Joe Higgins and Jessica Besseling who are now proud parents. Joe and Jessica have been long-time employees with Oversee.net (Jessica also worked with DDC.com).
According to Joe “Baby Gia was born in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg on Thursday, February 25th weighing in at a healthy...
| Domain Name News - Friday, February 26, 2010 - 20:51 |
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