HuntingMoon.com Brokers The Sale Of Pornstar.com For $1.5 Million HuntingMoon.com announced that they have successfully brokered the sale of the website Pornstar.com for $1.5 Million dollars.
This sale follows HuntingMoon sale of Eric Borgos’ adult domain portfolio for $1.3 Million.
Lets point out right away that PornStar.com is an operating site not just a domain and the sale included all co...
The Domains - 4 hr 15 min ago
BuyDomains.com Beats Back UDRP on Solanum.com Buydomains.com, just beat back a UDRP on the domain name solanum.com
Here are the relevant facts and finding from the three member panel:
“The Complainant is a Mexican individual who founded a business named Solanum Laboratories in Mexico in 2003.”
“The Complainant is the owner of a variety of Mexican registered tra...
The Domains - 7 hr 50 min ago
Today We Call Out Sedo For Including Escrow Only Transactions In It’s Sales Figures Sedo.com has been including domain names it acts only as escrow agent for in its weekly and annual reports of domain sales.
This information came to light this week when Sedo inadvertently reported a sale that was supposed to be confidential and Francois from Domaining left a comment on TheDomains.com telling us that not only should ...
The Domains - 12 hr 1 min ago
Domainfest Global Domain Name Auction Nets $717,000 The live domain name auction from Domainfest Global just ended resulting in $717,450 in sales.
QR.com led the way selling for $325,000.
Empire.com sold for $135,000 and another two letter .com QE.com sold for $85,00
Marriages.com sold before the auction started for $36,000
Catfood.com sold for $62,000 after selling just a little more...
The Domains - 23 hr 13 min ago
Hawaii Proposes Bill To Force State To Apply For New gTLD’s; 1 Of Which Isn’t Even Allowed A bill just proposed in the Hawaii state legislature seeks to require the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to make application for the new gTLD’s of .hawaii, .hi, and .aloha.
One of the TLD the legislature is requiring the state to apply for .Hi isn’t even available to be applied for under...
The Domains - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 15:53
Beckstrom Tells USA TODAY On New gTLD’s: “We’re improving Internet Domain Space” In an OpEd piece published by USA Today, the CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom says of the new gTLD program that “It will create space on the Internet that is more secure than what exists today.”
“Applicants will undergo criminal background checks, financial evaluations and challenging technical assessments. More than 300 ...
The Domains - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 13:1
JustDropped.com Releases App For iPhone According to an email we just received the popular daily newsletter, JustDropped.com just released an App for the iPhone
The newsletter has over 65,000 subscribers and I have been using it for years as well.
Here is the screenshot of the App available in iTunes now buy clicking here
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The Domains - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 11:34
Sedo.com Sells GEB.com For 40,000 Euro’s The domain name GEB.com just sold on Sedo for 40,000 Euro’s or around $50K.
The seller appears to be a Gerard Brady.
The domain is currently at Escrow.com awaiting transfer…
The Domains - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 11:24
Reports Say ICANN New gTLD TAS System Is Missing Applications According to tweets from a couple of people at NeuStar, the ICANN TAS system:
Jeff Neuman of NeuStart Tweeted today
“Check your applications in TAS. Reports of missing applications- Our application 4 .Neustar is 1 of them”
Ken Hansson of Neustar also Twitted today:
“Check your applications in TAS this morning. Repor...
The Domains - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 11:14
Godaddy & .Co Stars In The CBS TV Show “Super Bowls Greatest Commercials” Last night CBS aired a one hour TV show “Super Bowls Greatest Commercials” and Godaddy and .Co starred, taking up the 1st five minute the show.
The show was co-hosted by Godaddy’s Spokesman Jillian Michaels who appeared in Godaddy gear.
Also appearing on the show were Bob Parson’s, and three Godaddy commercial...
The Domains - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 10:43
Buyer of NBB.com For $95K Is Giant German Computer Reseller Notebooksbilliger.de Last August we told you that the Domain name NBB.com sold for $95,000 on Sedo.
The buyer of the domain appears to be the German Computer store, notebooksbilliger.de
The domain name NBB.com is just being forwarding to the .de site.
The site notebooksbilliger.de gets plenty of traffic already, has a PR of 5, an Alexa rank of 4,318 worl...
The Domains - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 14:55
Inside The Numbers: Sedo 2011 Sales Report Covering $85 Million Dollars In Domain Sales Sedo.com published its 2011 domain name Sales Report (pdf)
Here are some of the more interesting numbers out of the report:
“In total, there were 39,951 domains sold across Sedo’s Domain Marketplace in 2011″
The total sales volume was $84,431,965.
“80% of sales revenue consisted of confidential sales”
“4...
The Domains - Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 12:7
Afternic.com Sells $1.13 Million In Domains Afternic.com reported $1,131,352 in domain sales for the week ending January 29th.
The publicly reportable sales included in the total above came to $$692,343 led by moneyandme.com at $20,000 followed by performancegraphics.com at $12,500.
Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales:
.com Sales
moneyandme.com
$20,...
The Domains - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 18:41
Sedo.com Sells $1.68 Million In Domains Led By Sofi.com at $45K Sedo.com just released its weekly sales list.
In all Sedo.com sold 939 domain names totaling over $1.68 million with 34% of them being “buy it now” sales.
Sofi.com led all sales at $45K followed by naturkraft.de selling for around $30K
Here are the reportable sales:
Domain name
Price
Currency
.COMs
sofi...
The Domains - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 16:5
Lana Del Rey Album Born To Die Hits Number 1 On iTunes In US & 10 Other Countries Big shout out and congrats to Lana Del Rey, Rob Grant, and the entire Grant family as “Born To Die”, Lana Del Rey album was released today and is currently number 1 and 2 on the iTunes US album chart.
The Deluxe version with bonus material is number 1 on iTunes and the regular album is #2.
According to Lana’s Faceb...
The Domains - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 12:34
GAYS.DE buys GAY.DE & Gay.At For $218,000
Leading gay community website GAYS.DE has bought two domain names gay.de and gay.at for a staggering €165,000 (approx. $218,000)
According to a press release, “”GAYS.DE’s special characteristic is that it checks its members’ authenticity through sophisticated technical mechanisms without risking their anonymity. This way...
The Domains - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 11:19
ICANN’s Beckstrom Update On New gTLD Program I just listened in to a with the CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom, on an update on the new gTLD program.
“For us, No news is good news, things are running smoothly we have not encountered any major technical or service issues.”
Beyond that Mr. Beckstrom was unwilling to give any updated numbers in terms of the number of applica...
The Domains - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 10:36
3 Founders Of Demand Media Are Out
According to paidcontent.org, three founders of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), Larry Fitzgibbon, Joe Perez, and Steven Kydd are to leaving the company.
All three had been with the company for seven years.
Kristen Moore, VP of corporate communications for Demand confirmed the report of paidContent, who said most of their duties will be ...
The Domains - Monday, January 30, 2012 - 18:22
WealthInvestors.com Seeking To Bring Domaining To The Masses Makes Its Pitch At Pitchfest Wealth Investors, LLC, headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., is trying to bring domain monetization to the general public.
Its a concept I have had discsussion with other domainers through the years.
What if you can teach John Q. Public about how they can make income from domain names.
Those inside the domain world will quickly point out ...
The Domains - Monday, January 30, 2012 - 17:56
ICANN Publishes Final Report On Whois Policy & Opens It Up For Public Comment ICANN has just published the final report of the “Whois Policy Review Team’s”, whose mission was to “review the extent to which ICANN’s Whois policy and its implementation are effective, meet the legitimate needs of law enforcement, and promote consumer trust.”
The Final Report [PDF, 1.04 MB] is ...
