Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact Latest News KeyDrive S.A. Acquires Moniker and SnapNames from Oversee.net (PR) As first reported by DNN, Keydrive bough Monikter and Snapnames from Oversee.net. The official Press Release was published today and can be found after the jump. KeyDrive S.A. Acquires Moniker and SnapNames from Oversee.net Luxembourg and Los Angeles, Calif. (February 1, 2012). KeyDrive S.A., an internet solutions holding company wit... Domain Name News - 11 hr 44 min ago DomainFest Global 2012 Auction Results We are remotely live blogging the auction results of the DomainFest 2012 SnapNames Moniker Auction Explanation of the Auction Stati: SOLD: Domain was sold to highest bidder SOLD * pending seller approval: Domain was pronounced sold by the auctioneer since bidding was close to the reserve price. However since the reserve price was not... Domain Name News - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 19:2 Breaking: Keydrive buys Moniker & Snapnames from Oversee.net According to industry sources, Keydrive S.A. will announce this morning that they have purchased Moniker &, Snapnames from Oversee.net. Information about the sale has already been posted on the companies website and was also added to ICANNWiki yesterday. KeyDrive S.A./Luxembourg includes the Key-Systems Group in St. Ingbert/Saarla... Domain Name News - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 9:54 GoDaddy Lists Sedo’s Fixed Price Domains through SedoMLS Sedo, today announced a new partnership with Go Daddy. Domains that are listed at Sedo with Buy Now prices are now available to Go Daddy customers through the SedoMLS Network. This partnership between two industry-leading companies gives domain investors the ability to distribute their domains at Go Daddy, and end users the chance to... Domain Name News - Monday, January 30, 2012 - 8:0 100 Million .Com Domains Registered According to DomainTools.com, a provider of domain name research and whois information, the number of .com domains under management by the registry has eclipsed 100 million domains. In a statement issued earlier today DomainTools claims that through their research they “calculated the current total of domains managed by Verisig... Domain Name News - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 14:43 Sedo and .ME Registry Partner to Auction .me Domain Names Sedo today announced an exclusive auction of premium .ME domain names. The company has successfully brokered the sale of more than 1,000 .ME domain names, totaling nearly two million U.S. dollars, including such premier names as Business.Me for €40,000, and online meeting platform Join.Me for $45,000. Global brands such as WordPress ... Domain Name News - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 14:58 Domaining.com Newsletter Sells 9 Domains for a Total of $20,789 USD As Francois from Domaining.com reports, his blogger newsletter special to celebrate the beginning of 2012 sold 9 domain names to 5 buyers. A 6th buyer did not follow through on his payment for the 10th name. The sales were: GoldBangles.com … $7,000 Winy.com … $3,900 PartyAccessories.com … $3,000 MarketingService.com... Domain Name News - Monday, January 23, 2012 - 13:51 PIPA co-sponsor Richard “Dick” Durbin Wrote Me. . . Little Old Me ! SOPA and PIPA are the hot topic today but according to Digital Trends writer Andrew Couts PIPA may be closer to passing as time for a vote draws near. PIPA, on the other hand, is still very much alive. It has already passed through committee hearings — a step further than SOPA ever took. And Senate Majority Leader Domain Name News - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 18:15 Domain Registrars “Blackout” in Opposition of SOPA and PIPA legislation I’m sure you’ve heard by now about the online protest with sites like Wikipedia, Reddit.com and thousands of other sites going “dark” to protest the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Even Google blacked out their logo today in protest. If you haven’t noticed this maybe you noticed that your favorite re... Domain Name News - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 17:27 Domain Sales Report For the Week to January 9th, 2012 The new year started off with a number of reportable sales – here are the top 10: dudu.com ($1,000,000 @Sedo) mcommerce.com ($50,000 @Afternic) juif.com ($35,000 @Sedo) uvideos.com ($22,000 @DomainMarket.com) action.fr ($20,000 @Sedo) bequiet.com ($15,000 @Sedo)     Shaparak.com ($15,000 @DomainMarket.com) s... Domain Name News - Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 17:29 Domaining.com Newsletter Domains Revealed Domaining.com asked domainers to submit their best deal for this special event and ~500 domainers participated. Shane Cultra of DomainShane.com to helped to pick pick the 100 best deals. To give a sale chance domains that were not picked will be promoted in the next Domaining.com newsletter. The names are sold on a first come first s... Domain Name News - Monday, January 9, 2012 - 11:2 Domaining.com Special Newsletter Submission Deadline Coming Up Domain Industry news aggregator Domaining.com is running a special newsletter collecting the 100 best submitted domains. The newsletter will be mailed out on Jan 9th, 2011. You can now submit your domains for consideration and the names will then be mailed to Domaining.com subscribers as well as posted on the following forums: DNForu... Domain Name News - Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 16:46 Domain Spammers Fill-Up Christmas Inboxes The onslaught of domain spammers emailing solicitations to acquire domain names that are dropping or pitching domains for sale seems to have increased dramatically over the last month.  Seeing that there is no rest for the wicked, I woke to find these devious elves had filled my Christmas morning in-box full of left-over fruit-cake d... Domain Name News - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 1:0 Frank Schilling Relaunches DomainNameSales.com After Frank Schilling shook up the domain parking industry with his release of his own parking company, Internet Traffic, it now appears he’s setting course to enter the race against incumbent domain name marketplaces. Schilling re-launched his DomainNameSales site today with a new look and new features. The relaunch seems to b... Domain Name News - Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 15:39 DOMAINfest Global 2012 to Introduce Fantasy Domaining Contest Over the years Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest in LA has consistently expanded beyond domaining and has become an inclusive event for anyone who relies on domains – domainers, registries, registrars, resellers, hosting company etc. This year I even spotted Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame. For the 2012 conference the crew behind... Domain Name News - Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 12:22 Tim Schumacher To Resign as Sedo’s CEO Sedo co-founder Tim Schumacher to resign as CEO and transition to board of directors, Tobias Flaitz to become new CEO Cologne, Germany: The board of Sedo Holding AG has named Tobias Flaitz as the new CEO of Sedo. On February 1, 2012, he will succeed Sedo’s current CEO and co-founder, Tim Schumacher, who’s transitioning to Domain Name News - Monday, December 5, 2011 - 11:51 DomainTools Giving Away a Free Reverse Whois Report DNN’s advertiser DomainTools is giving away a free Reverse Whois Report for up to $99 to a winner in a giveaway they launched recently. In order to enter, visit their site to send an email to Santa before January 2nd, 2011. Maybe here’s a chance to run the query you’ve been waiting to run for free… Domain Name News - Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 13:33 Merck Sues Facebook Over Username Do Facebook and Twitter need a UDRP? As reported by Tech:Blorge today, German pharmaceutical giant Merck is suing Facebook in a New York Court (reported by WSJ) to demand details as to why Facebook will not allow them to use the “facebook.com/merck” username for their Facebook page. According to Tech:Blorge, “The Ge... Domain Name News - Monday, November 28, 2011 - 12:6 The Week In Domains And here’s the week in Domains – here at DNN and elsewhere. I’m hoping to bring this back as a weekly post, wish me luck ;-) Here at DNN: Elsewhere in the Domain Industry: Stop Parking Domains and Build a Real Business – With Adam Dicker (Nov 13, DomainSherpa.com) There are still Gentlemen in the Domain Name News - Friday, November 18, 2011 - 9:0 SnapNames Year End Auction Ends Today SnapNames/Moniker’s year end auction ends today. At the time of this post (about 10 hours before the end of the auction), 15 domains of the 53 domains in the auction have currently received bids and apparently “answer.com” (which was listed for $150,000) has been removed from the auction. (c) 2011 DomainNameNews.com... 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