Australian .AU Domains Now Transferable Great news for our Aussie friends. The AU Registry (auDA) have relaxed the registrant policy to allow a registrant to transfer their domain name licence to another eligible entity, for any reason. This move effectively creates the marketplace for AU domaining .
e3 Auction - 4/14/2008 3:53:23 AM
Free Access to DotSauce Premium Domaining Content For a limited time only, the team over at DotSauce are offering free access to their premium content. This has previously been charged at $10 per month.
e3 Auction - 4/12/2008 9:45:22 AM
Microsoft Patent Points Towards Value of Domain Age Bill Slawski has unearthed a new patent from Microsoft which points to their interest in domain age, when it comes to ranking. For some time now, it has been accepted that older domains are treated with greater trust by the search engines. This makes them easier to rank in the search engine results.
New domains in
e3 Auction - 4/12/2008 2:38:37 AM
Top Tucows Domain Auctions 11.04.08 It was quite a busy week on the Tucows domain auction platform. There aren’t many buyers on there and bidding is often last minute. Our new e3auction platform is due to be released at the end of next week, which should give you more access to dictionary lists and inbound links for these domains, so
e3 Auction - 4/11/2008 3:45:01 PM
ICANN Advisory Released on Domain Transfer Requests I should probably have a boring but important section on this blog for this kind of material. Listen up though, this is relevant information for any of us in the domain business.
ICANN has released an advisory on domain transfers between Registrars to clarify their rules on this matter. Some Registrars have been refusing transfers fo...
e3 Auction - 4/4/2008 3:32:14 AM
Top Tucows Domain Auctions 30-03-08 There’s still very little action on the Tucows domain auction platform, partly because so few people have heard of it but I also suspect quality has been an issue. However, for those that took the time to search out the gems, there were some good deals to be had. My favorite was MortgageArrangement.com at $253
e3 Auction - 3/30/2008 7:07:40 AM
Is it Time to Pull the Plug on Underage Domainers? This week has seen one of the internet’s largest domain thefts take place, involving a loss of $120,000 for the buyer of the stolen property. One of the interesting aspects of the case has been the suggestion that several of the fraudsters are under 16. This has increased calls for underage domainers to be stopped
e3 Auction - 3/11/2008 9:50:57 AM
60% Increase in Secondary Domain Sales Sedo, owners of the leading domain marketplace, has published a study into the secondary market in 2007. Some of the reports conclusions are as follows:
.COM remains the most frequently sold TLD (76% of all sales)
.DE is strongest selling ccTLD (4′954 sales)
In 2007 domains amounting to $72.2m were sold, a 60% increase on 2006...
e3 Auction - 1/25/2008 10:37:41 AM
Is Registrant Search Threatening Your Privacy? Domainers have been shocked by the information which is now available on their portfolio and activities. However this issue has wider implications which should be considered by all domain owners, businesses and privacy advocates.
e3 Auction - 11/13/2007 9:52:31 AM
ICANN Agrees to Investigate Domain Snatching Cases The accusation being made is that domain availability searches are not being kept private and this data is either being sold or somehow obtained by bulk registration companies.
e3 Auction - 11/6/2007 8:50:05 AM
Goodbye to the Last Free 4 Letter Domain The very last free 4-letter .com domain was purchased last night. Yes, that’s right folks - all possibly combination of letters have now been taken (456,976).
e3 Auction - 11/2/2007 11:43:44 AM
Moniker Domain Auction at PubCon Vegas 07 Moniker will be hosting a domain auction at the PubCon conference in Las Vegas. The conference runs from 4-7th December with the domain auction being held on Wednesday 5th at 3-5.30pm.
e3 Auction - 10/30/2007 10:31:22 AM
5 Reasons Why the Cowboys Made a Dumb Play There’s a lot of coverage of this incident across the domain world but here are my 5 reasons why the Dallas Cowboys made a big mistake.
New Digg-Style Domain News Portal Launches DNHour is a dedicated domainer news portal based on the popular Pligg software. Users are free to submit their own articles or ones they have found interesting, and comment/vote on them.
e3 Auction - 10/3/2007 3:51:28 AM
2 Tips on Finding Old or Emerging Premium Domains Two domaining tips to come from the SEO quarter this week. So does this mean the SEOmainers are more creative than the traditional domainer set, or do they just not know when to keep their mouths shut
e3 Auction - 10/1/2007 12:38:43 PM
Russian SU Domain Snubs ICANN ICANN are faced with a tough fight to remove .SU (Soviet Union). Deletion of the extension has been widely discussed this year, with ICANN holding a
