Monthly Archives: August 2013

Wed 14th August 2013
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Finalist For Britain’s Million Pound Startup Competition Buys FaceBuy.com For $10K On Sedo - The domain name FaceBuy.com just sold on Sedo for $10,000 and I think the seller may not be thrilled when they realize the buyer is a App developer from Australia who has already gotten some mainstream coverage in the press and whose Facebook page has almost 9,000 likes. The start up is so successful that they are a finalist for Britain’s Million Pound Startup Competition. The company was covered by the theaustralian.com.au, just a month ago: “Stephen Chapman, has developed a social selling app ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Revamps Q2 2013 Domain Market Study With Infographic As Market … - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Leading Internet Domain Name Marketplace Powers Second Quarter Transactions Worth $17.5 Million, Representing 160 Countries and 118 Different ExtensionsSedo, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace and monetization provider, today issued its domain market study for the second quarter of 2013, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. During the quarter, Sedo powered 9,589 transactions with a mean ... read more ...
 
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14. August 2013 – Bitcoins werden heiß diskutiert - 14. August 2013 – Bitcoins werden heiß diskutiert Details Heute im News-Preview: Aktuelle Zahlen zu Domains und den neuen generischen Top Level Domains. Außerdem feiert ein Online-Shop sein zehnjähriges Bestehen und Bitcoins werden heute wieder kontrovers in Köln diskutiert. Heute ... read more ...
 
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Chicago.com investment, finish user sales reports, and more - What’s going on with a major geo website and AWOL end user reports. [Update: the sale has been confirmed.] I spent last week vacationing in Seattle and central Washington. There was a lot of news last week and I did my best to stay on top of it (despite complaints from my wife). One potentially big piece of news last week that I didn’t cover was a development at Chicago.com. Dan Pulcrano of Boulevards New Media, Inc. had a well researched story about the Sun-Times ... read more ...
 
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IPC wants Uniform Rapid Suspension supplies in .org, .biz, and .info contracts - Intellectual Property groups already asking for way to add URS to existing top level domain names. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. The ICANN Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) has asked ICANN to insert a provision into registry agreements for existing TLDs that could lead to Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) expanding beyond new top level domain names. URS is a faster and cheaper form of Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). It was designed ... read more ...
 
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Sedo income down 17% though miscarry in series of domains for sale and parked - Sedo’s revenue continues downward trend but company reports a rebound in domains for sale and parked since the end of 2012. Sedo Holding’s domain marketing segment, which most in the domain name industry know as simply Sedo, posted a sharp revenue drop in the first six months of 2013 compared to 2012. The company reported today that revenue was down 17% in the first half of the year at €13.7. Domain sales were fairly steady compared to last year, but the company ... read more ...
Tue 13th August 2013
 
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TRA Releases UAE Registrar Market Share Data - Home News Article Aug 13 2013 more articles from TRA release data on UAE registrars to encourage businesses to register with the country's domain name .ae Abu Dhabi, August 13th, 2013: The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has released data outlining the market share of registrars in the UAE to encourage local businesses to register for the national top level domain name (ccTLD) of the United Arab Emirates .ae. Accelerating the efforts of ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1MM Led By PremierOutlets.com For $26K - Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 08/05/13 – 08/11/13 totaling $1MM. The highest priced transaction was PremierOutlets.com at $26,000 followed by RealGaming.com at $20,000. Over the past week, 673 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1MM. This amounts to $42.2MM in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Congratulations to the company VPON from China, a professional manufacturer of ... read more ...
 
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First New gTLD Private Auction Participation - The directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) are pleased to announce that the Company will be participating in four private auctions starting Tuesday, 13 August for the contested strings .guide, .casa, .网址("web address" in Chinese) and .fishing. In each instance the Company will be bidding against single competitors, there being just two companies participating in each of the four auctions. Under the private auction format, if TLDH makes the winning bid it will secure the ... read more ...
 
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ALchemy 1.44.00 en téléchargement exclusif sur TLD - Une nouvelle version 1.44.00 de l'utilitaire ALchemy est disponible. Nous vous la proposons en téléchargement exclusif sur TLD. Ne s'agissant pas d'un fichier provenant directement du site web de Creative, aucune information n'accompagne cette mise à jour et on ne sait donc pas ce qu'elle apporte exactement. On constate seulement le passage de l'application alchemy.exe en version 1.3.0.0 et de la librairie dsound.dll en version 2.4.1.0. Le support de jeux supplémentaires a sans doute été ajouté. Le ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ One Of The 1st New gTLD’s To Launch Opens Up Pre-Registration - The registry for the new gTLD .XYZ has just opened up preregistrations. While preregistrations for new gTLD’s is nothing new the fact that this is being done at the registry level is different. Many registrars and auction houses opened up preregistrations over the last couple of years but in this case it is the registry itself taking the preregistrations. As always there is no cost to preregister a .XYZ domain name however the preregistration does not give you any rights to the domain. .XYZ ... read more ...
 
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Looker.com Sold On Godaddy For $50K in 2012 Gets $16 Milion In Series A Funding - The Term Sheet is reporting that Looker.coma Santa Cruz, Calif.-based business intelligence startup, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. Redpoint Ventures led the round, and was joined by seed backer First Round Capital.” The domain name Looker.com was purchased at the Godaddy marketplace back in May 2012 for $50,000. The domain name was owned in early 2012 by a company Looker DNS out of Arizona. The purchaser looks like it was Rich Skrenta of Blekko.com of Redwood City, California. The ... read more ...
 
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Secretaries of All 50 States Tells ICANN To Follow GAC Advice On INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP - National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) is an organization whose members include Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors of the 50 U.S. states and territories send a letter to ICANN in late July that was just published today, that the new gTLD’s .INC, .LLC, .CORP and .LLP.should only be allowed to be registered by  ‘entities that are appropriately registered and in good- standing with the Secretary of State or other appropriate state agency.” “The members of the National ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $1.1 Million In Domains Led By Xylem.com For $47K and BXE.com For $40K - Afternic.com just published its domain sales for the week of 8/5/13 – 8/11/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,106,700. All sales were led by Xylem.com which sold for $47,100 and BXE.com which sold for $40,000 Xylem.com has a wikipedia.org entry, which says Xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants (phloem is the other). The word xylem is derived from the Greek word ξύλον (xylon), meaning “wood”; ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ One Of The 1st New gTLD’s To Launch Opens Up Pre-Registration - The registry for the new gTLD .XYZ has just opened up preregistrations. While preregistrations for new gTLD’s is nothing new the fact that this is being done at the registry level is different. Many registrars and auction houses opened up preregistrations over the last couple of years but in this case it is the registry itself taking the preregistrations. As always there is no cost to preregister a .XYZ domain name however the preregistration does not give you any rights to the domain. .XYZ was ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Formely Announces September IPO - CentralNic and SLD’s … You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig; and a pig subject to US Law 15 USC § 1125 – False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution forbidden (a) Civil action (1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic Formally Announces Sep IPO - CentralNic and SLD’s … You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig; and a pig subject to US Law 15 USC § 1125 – False designations of origin, false descriptions, and dilution forbidden (a) Civil action (1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading ... read more ...
 
 
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Sedo’s 2Q Domain Report: 9589 Transactions; 53% of Sales $500 Or Under - Sedo, issued its domain market study for the second quarter of 2013 today. Sedo reported that domain name sales  below $500, accounted for 53% of sales. Domains priced between $501 and $2,500 accounted for 35% of sales and only 7% were in the $2,501-$5,000 price range. So basically 95% of all sales where $5,000 or under. During the quarter, Sedo powered 9,589 transactions with a mean average price of $1,830 across all sales and a median price of $551 and a total sales volume of $17.5 Million ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s 2Q Domain Report: 9,589 Transactions; 53% of Sales $500 Or Under; 95% $5k Or Under - Sedo, issued its domain market study for the second quarter of 2013 today. Sedo reported that domain name sales  below $500, accounted for 53% of sales. Domains priced between $501 and $2,500 accounted for 35% of sales and only 7% were in the $2,501-$5,000 price range. So basically 95% of all sales where $5,000 or under. During the quarter, Sedo powered 9,589 transactions with a mean average price of $1,830 across all sales and a median price of $551 and a total sales volume of $17.5 Million dollars. 5% ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Revamps Q2 2013 Domain Market Study with Infographic as Market … – Virtual - Sedo, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace and monetization provider, today issued its domain market study for the second quarter of 2013, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. During the quarter, Sedo powered 9,589 transactions with a mean average price of $1,830 across all sales and a median price of $551. Trends emerging from the second quarter data reveal that ... read more ...
 
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EMCORE Introduces Multiplexed North Finder/Tracker Fiber Optic Gyro for … - Do you have a review, update or anything you would like to add to this news story? Cancel reply to comment ... read more ...
 
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TRA releases UAE registrar market share data - Accelerating the efforts of the Authority to promote more registrations in the UAE since surpassing 100,000 in September 2012, the data illustrates the stake each provider of domain names has in the UAE.According to the sixteen registration providers assessed, the data indicates that Etisalat has the largest market share (72.21%) followed by Instra Corporation Pty Ltd (8.94%) and 101Domain Inc (3.31%)."It is important that local businesses understand the benefits of registering with the .ae ... read more ...
 
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TRA releases data on UAE registrars to encourage businesses to register with … - Accelerating the efforts of the Authority to promote more registrations in the UAE since surpassing 100,000 in September 2012, the data illustrates the stake each provider of domain names has in the UAE. According to the sixteen registration providers assessed, the data indicates that Etisalat has the largest market share (72.21%) followed by Instra Corporation Pty Ltd (8.94%) and 101Domain Inc (3.31%)."It is important that local businesses understand the benefits of registering with the .ae ... read more ...