 | 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...
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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 - 16:57 |
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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 - 16:18 |
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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 - 11:2 |
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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 - 9:11 |
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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 - 14:44 |
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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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| .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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| Gandi Gives Away 55,000 Domains to Celebrate their 10th Anniversary
The French registrar Gandi.net is giving away 55,000 Domain Names in celebration of the ICANN accredited company’s 10th birthday. The amount of promo codes given away will increase from day to day up to a total of 55,000. The longer a registrant has been with the company the more promotional codes they will receive. The
| Domain Name News - Friday, February 26, 2010 - 18:28 |
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| DomainConsultant Relaunches Site, Launches Two New Sites
DomainConsultant’s Miguel Fiol has contacted us to with the news that the company’s site has recently been relaunched in the form of a blog. The company is most known for their work assisting with the auctions held by DomainTools on the Aftermarket.com platform.
The company has also launched a new domain marketplace, mea...
| Domain Name News - Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 10:18 |
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| Network Solutions Takes Over RollingStone.com ?
As of this writing, the RollingStone.com website has become a Network Solutions domain parking page. Gawker Media first pointed out that the music industry website was no longer active.
I know what you are thinking, the domain expired and NSI took it over. WRONGO! The domain doesn’t expire until September 2011.
The company r...
| Domain Name News - Monday, February 22, 2010 - 16:38 |
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| Verisign Releases Domain Industry Brief
Verisign, the registry provider for .com and .net, has released their domain industry brief today. The report can be found in PDF format here.
Some of the highlights of the report include:
- At the end of 2009 there were 192 million domain name registrations across all TLDs, an increase of nearly 15 million since the end
| Domain Name News - Monday, February 22, 2010 - 14:4 |
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| Someone Smells Like a Freshly Registered Domain
I found an interesting product today while searching for some domain news articles. It’s Domain, the men’s fragrance by Mary Kay.
Mary Kay describes the fragrance : “Wrap him in the scent of hearth and home with Domain® Cologne Spray. He’s a breath of fresh air and so is this blend of lavender and oak moss....
| Domain Name News - Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 16:23 |
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| Sex.com Goes In To Foreclosure
In the ongoing drama that is Sex.com another major twist in the story has occurred. Sex.com has now been listed at Maltz Autctions as an asset to be sold at a foreclosure auction. Elliot Silver scooped the legal documents listing the domain name, the loan agents, as well as the investors involved.
The domain name was
| Domain Name News - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 14:57 |
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| National A1 Sells Poker.org for $1 million
As reported earlier on TechCrunch , National A1 Advertising has sold the domain Poker.org for $1 million to poker company PokerCompany.com . The transaction is cited as the highest recorded .org sale price. PokerCompany.com runs a portfolio of other non-.com domains including Craps.net, BlackJack.org and RakeBack.org .
This is a gre...
| Domain Name News - Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 21:10 |
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| PCWorld Recommends to Block Information.com
IDG’s PCWorld just published an article by Jared Newman about 15 Internet Annoyances and how to fix them. Of course the author thinks that parked domains are one of them, even if they may actually get the user to where they want to go. So Newman recommends all domains that involve framed parking on the
| Domain Name News - Monday, February 15, 2010 - 13:56 |
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| FaceBook Humor Site FailBooking.com Sues Owner of Better Domain Name For Framing Their Content
TechDirt covered a unique twist in domain name disputes last week. Pet Holdings, Inc, the company behind wildly popular websites such as Icanhascheezburger.com, FailBlog.org and Failbooking.com, sued the owner of the domain name FailBook.com because the owner framed PHI’s FailBooking.com site on his FailBook.com domain and put...
| Domain Name News - Friday, February 12, 2010 - 13:56 |
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| ICANN Meeting Venue in Nairobi Faces Direct Threat [updated]
According to a report issued by ICANN yesterday, the upcoming ICANN meeting in Nairobi in March has received a message regarding a direct threat against the conference venue, the Kenyan International Conference Center (KICC). ICANN had canceled a planned meeting in Nairobi last year due to security concerns, but had recently confirme...
| Domain Name News - Friday, February 12, 2010 - 11:2 |
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