Moniker.com and Name.com Respond to Hack Claims Wednesday DNN ran an article about a purported hack of several domain name registrars by HTP (Hack the Planet). While HTP claimed that the hosting company Linode.com was the intended target, the group also claimed they were able to hack in to Melbourne IT, Name.com, Moniker and Xinnet and provided “evidence” of this on t...
Domain Name News - Friday, May 10, 2013 - 1:59
Hackers Break in to Prominent Domain Registrars, Moniker, Melbourne IT, Name.com and Xinnet A story on Hacker News from earlier Tuesday mentions that a group of hackers , Hack The Planet (HTP), was able to hack in to several domain name registrars late last year . The registrars were not specifically targeted, rather they were hacked in order to take down the hosting of another hacker’s IRC channel.
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Domain Name News - Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 8:49
RV company buys RV.com for Undisclosed Sum As announced in a press release today, Good Sam, a provider of products for the RV and outdoor recreation consumer purchased RV.com for an undisclosed sum. The domain name was owned by Dometic Group, another supplier for the RV and Marine Industries.
Domain Name News - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 17:8
Sedo’s Greatdomains and Snapnames Dotster Auctions Ending today Today two domain name auctions are ending – first the GreatDomains auction at Sedo then the Dotster Auction at SnapNames. Here are the domains and their current (at the time of this post) bids at Sedo ends in less than 3 hours: Here are the domains and their current (at the time of this post)
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Domain Name News - Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 8:58
Bill Sweetman to Leave Tucows, Starting Domain Name Consulting Firm As announced on his personal Blog, Bill Sweetman is leaving his job Vice President, Domain Portfolio at Tucows as well as General Manager of YummyNames, on April 26, 2013. He joined Tucows in 2007 and is now planning to launch a “boutique domain name consulting firm later this quarter”. Bill writes about his change: Over ...
Domain Name News - Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 16:6
DotWeekly.com is Back After a brief hiatus, Jamie Zoch at Dotweekly.com has returned to blogging. Jamie lost all of DotWeekly.com in a hosting move and decided to take some time off . Jamie always had good content and interesting insights, so I’m glad to see him back at it. Frankly, domain blogging seems to be a sea of copycatting
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Domain Name News - Saturday, April 13, 2013 - 11:48
Mali to give .ML domains away for free While a large part of the domain industry gathers at the 46th ICANN meeting in Beijing this week, big news are being made in the country of Mali in Africa. As reported by The Guardian, .ML domains will be available for free in July 2013. The registry will be operated by Freedom Registry, the same
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Domain Name News - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 9:52
CSC buys Melbourne IT’s DBS for $152MM AUD As reported by a number of sources, Melbourne IT (ASX:MLB) is selling it’s Digital Brand Management (DBS) to Corporation Services Company (CSC) for $152.5 million AUD. Melbourne IT had originally purchased the Digital Brand Management unit from VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for $50MM USD in 2008 and merged it with their existing corp...
Domain Name News - Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 14:36
Uniregistry prepares for new gTLDs, sets up new retail registrar: Uniregistrar Frank Schilling’s new gTLD play Uniregistry becomes ICANN accredited and launches their retail registrar, Uniregistrar. Uniregistrar completed their accreditation earlier this month. The name and site clearly identifies it as being associated with Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry that is applying for 54 new gTLDs. The new si...
Domain Name News - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 20:54
RIP Igal Lichtman aka Mrs. Jello According to Larry Fischer at DirectNavigation.com, a well known domain space veteran has passed away. Igal Lichtman was a very successful business man and domain name investor. Many will remember him from forums and from his whois where he left his mark as Mrs. Jello. He had an inspiring portfolio with many gems such
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Domain Name News - Monday, February 18, 2013 - 22:9
Luxemburg based IRIS buys 25 .XXX Domains from ICM Registry for $180,000 ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) exclusively used for online adult entertainment, announces today that IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg, has secured an additional 25 Premium Domains in a deal worth $185,000. This is the second significant order from IRIS who previously acquired $650,000 of premiu...
Domain Name News - Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 12:36
Sedo sells Apuestas.com (Bets in Spanish) for 165,000 Euro, $1.57m for the week Over the past week, 800 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.57m. Over 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: apuestas.com (bets in Spanish) at 165,000 EUR, almost 222,000 USD Top ccTLD: veterinar.se (Veterinary in Spanish) at 8...
Domain Name News - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 16:44
Court dismisses IOD’s .WEB lawsuit against ICANN As tweeted by George Kirikos, the court granted ICANN’s motion to dismiss Image Online Design’s (IOD) .WEB lawsuit. ICANN posted the “Order Granting ICANN’s Motion to Dismiss Complaint” (PDF) today on their site. IOD had applied to operate the .WEB gTLD in 2000, but ICANN did not select the TLD for the p...
Domain Name News - Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 21:2
WebFest Global 2013 Domain Auction Results We are were blogging the auction live today at Webfest Global 2013 in Santa Monica, CA. Please note that DNN does not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Out of 61 domains listed in the live auction,22 domains sold for a total of $574,360 USD. The names not sold in the live auction will be
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Domain Name News - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 20:15
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Domain Name News - Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 19:15
Sedo to broker Internet Real Estate Group’s Chocolate.com Domain & Site Sedo is brokering Internet Real Estate Group’s Chocolate.com and the web business. The site is a marketplace for fine chocolates that lists 250 vendors and their over 5,000 products. “The Chocolate.com domain name and address is one of the most sought after plots of virtual real estate on the Internet,” said Andrew Miller, Mana...
Domain Name News - Monday, January 28, 2013 - 9:31
And here is the court order that stopped the deletion of publication.com In the case of the non-deletion of publication.com last Friday, DNN has now obtained a copy of the court order that prevented the deletion and you can see it here (PDF). Please note that this is the unsigned version of the restraining order as it was currently published by the court, but DNN does have
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Domain Name News - Monday, January 14, 2013 - 12:12
Publication.com deletion stopped by court order Many domain investors were wondering yesterday why Publication.com was renewed during the deletion process. VeriSign (VRSN) apparently received a court order forbidding them to delete the domain. Here is an official statement from VeriSign that we received a few minutes ago: The status of publication.com was changed as the result of ...
Domain Name News - Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 16:56
Why did publication.com not drop today? The name publication.com was scheduled to be deleted today and had a large number of interest with the various backorder platforms –, for example over 170 bidders at Namejet and pre-bids over $3,000. The drop just completed, yet the name was not deleted. Here is the whois as it was displayed earlier today:
Domain Name News - Friday, January 11, 2013 - 14:54
Demand Media to buy Name.com Demand Media just announced this morning that the are acquiring the retail registrar name.com. name.com was founded by Bill Mushkin in 2003. Demand Media also owns eNom and BulkRegistrar.com and is an active player in the new gTLD space. The acquisition will increase their reach into direct domain sales. name.com has over 1.5 million...
