Category Archives: EN

Thu 8th January 2015
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DQZ.com and other Expired Domain Name Sales - DQZ.com among the leaders at NameJet over the past week. When it comes to 3-letter .COM domains, value is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Enough domain investors agree to pay within a certain range based on scarcity, observed sales, and the opportunity to resell to one another that a given LLL.com is often purchased without reference to any conceivable use or meaning. That could easily be the case with NameJet’s $12.4k sale of DQZ.com last week; ... read more ...
 
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ROTD auction during NamesCon will sell a lot of domain names - Sell-through rate at next week’s auction is guaranteed to be high. Right of the Dot (ROTD) is hosting a live domain name auction next Tuesday during NamesCon. From the looks of it, they’re going to sell a lot of domain names. The only question is how much they’ll sell for. Already 31 domain names have pre-bids that have met their reserves (mostly on no reserve domain names). That means the auction is already at about a 30% sell-through rate on a planned inventory ... read more ...
 
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Women in Domaining earnings during NamesCon - 15 sponsors support Women in Domaining event. One of the most important social gatherings at next week’s NamesCon conference will be Women in Domaining. More women work in the domain name industry than before, but it’s still a relatively small number. It’s nice to see an event for women who work in the industry to get together. The social takes place Monday, January 12th from 7pm-9pm in the Whoisology Room. 15 companies are sponsoring the event, which is being ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions implements bidder verification - I think this is fairly ironic news, considering how much trouble they have with the simplest things such as auto charging a paypal account. My partners and I have a Paypal agreement with GoDaddy and have for some years. We keep a balance of a min of $30k in it at all dues as a float. Due to sales, etc., sometimes it even has over $100k in it. Yet GoDaddy auctions consistently fails to auto charge it several times a month. I’m on many platform, and depend on these pieces of software ... read more ...
Wed 7th January 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
877.com Gets A $200K Bid At The RightoftheDot/ Names Con Auction - On the heels of the $800,000 sale of 345.com, a pre-bid has just been placed for the domain name 877.com for $200,000 at the RightoftheDot.com auction that will be held at Namescon on January 13th, at 4:30Pm Pre-Bidding is currently ongoing online through SnapNames.com You of course will have to have an account at SnapNames.com to make a pre-bid online or online during the live system, so if you don’t have a snapnames.com account go sign up for one now. There will be a special link that you will ... read more ...
 
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EscrowHill.com Adds US Based Escrow Services Through Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC -       According to a press release we just received, EscrowHill.com announced they added the U.S. based attorney firm, Greenberg Lieberman, LLC, in addition to the New Zealand registered Financial Service Provider, Escrow Hill Limited. “Andee Hill, CEO of EscrowHill.com stated, “I am very pleased to be offering the domain escrow services of Greenberg Lieberman at EscrowHill.com. Stevan Lieberman is a trusted domain attorney with a vast knowledge of domains, the domain industry and domain ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Releases 3 Weeks Of Transactions Totaling $2.6 Million Led By TV.AE For $95K - Sedo just issues its transaction report covering the past 3 weeks including the Christmas and New Years holiday weeks In those 3 weeks 1,067 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.6 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All .com sales were led by one of our domain names FindYourCalling.com which sold for $30,000 but all domain sales were led by Tv.Ae which sold for $95,000 .AE is the ccTLD for the United Arab Emirates. The highest other ... read more ...
 
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We Paid Six Figures For SexEducation.com & Its In The ROTD NamesCon Auction At No Reserve - We have placed the domain name SexEducation.com which we paid six figures for,  into the RightoftheDot.com live/online domain name auction at the NamesCon conference at No Reserve. The domain name has an Estibot value of $123,000. It’s a domain we bought as we saw it as one of the only “adult’ type of domain names that you could advertise in mainstream media and would be great for one of the tapes, videos, books and DVD’s you see advertised all the time for “better sex” The domain name ... read more ...
 
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DegreeDirectory.org UpGrades To Learn.Org -

Michael Berkens, Esq. is a owner and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also a co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. that owns over 75,000 domain names and whose sell site is during MostWantedDomains.com. Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com that is a consultant in a new gTLD space and a attorney of super reward domains.

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Troubling Decision: 19 Year Old DesertGolf.com Lost In UDRP To DesertGolfer.com On Common Law Mark - We are only into the first few days of the year we have what I consider to be first horrible UDRP decision of 2015. A one member UDRP panel decision handed by by the National Arbitration Forum by Richard DiSalle as Panelist gave the domain name DesertGolf.com to the owner of the domain DesertGolfer.com The Complainant Pade Publishing, LLC, who has since 2001, published “Desert Golf Tennis, a luxury magazine illustrating golf and tennis lifestyles and activities. Complainant uses the domain name ... read more ...
 
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How Correctica done me demeanour smarter - Service finds errors that spell and grammar checkers don’t. When I write a post for Domain Name Wire, I act as researcher, writer and editor. That’s why you occasionally see a typo or two in articles. I review articles before posting, and always pay attention to that red squiggly underline indicating a misspelled word, but some types of errors are harder to catch. That’s why I was intrigued to learn about Knowingly, a new company launched by futurist and former ... read more ...
 
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25 End User Domain Name Sales - End user domain names sales continued during the holidays. Sedo didn’t report domain name sales over the holidays, so this week’s end user sales report includes sales from the past three weeks. Over this period, Sedo handled 1,067 transactions for a total of $2.6 million worth of domain names. Let’s just right into the list of recent end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your ... read more ...
 
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Existing TLD .Reise headed to a auction block - Top level domain name will be auctioned at the end of February. Innovative Auctions Ltd., the same company handling many private new top level domain name contention set auctions, is holding an auction for .REISE on February 27. What’s unique here is that .reise is an existing top level domain name that’s now available for purchase. I believe this is the second time Innovative Auctions has held auctions for already-released TLDs. Reise roughly translates to “journey” ... read more ...
Tue 6th January 2015
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Donuts Beats The Owner Of Gold.Org To The New gTLD .Gold - Donuts, which we can only assume won a private auction for the new gTLD string .Gold against the World Gold Counsel (WGC) which operates Gold.Org The new gTLD .Gold was scheduled to got to an ICANN Last Resort auction later this month. Here is some information from WGC application” “The Applicant is a wholly owned subsidiary of the World Gold Council, a non-profit organisation tasked with the market development for the gold industry (collectively referred to as the World Gold Council Group). ... read more ...
 
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Hackers Get over $5million in Bitcoin from Europe’s Largest Exchange - Europe’s largest Bitcoin Exchange Got Hacked CNN Money reported that Bitstamp, the largest Bitcoin exchange in Europe was hacked. The take was over $5million. The exchange says that most of their reserves are held offline in secure storage systems. From the article: Cyber thieves have run off with about 19,000 bitcoin ($5.2 million) from Bitstamp accounts. The company said it has suspended services after some digital wallets were compromised on Jan 4. Bitstamp told customers not to make any deposits ... read more ...
 
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Porn companies sue ICANN over .XXX domain - Two of the world's biggest porn companies have teamed up to sue the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and ICM Registry over their introduction of the .XXX top-level domain. Digital Playground and Luxembourg-based Manwin, which owns a network of websites including YouPorn.com and manages Playboy's brand on the web, claim that ICANN and ICM are guilty of antitrust violations. The .XXX domain was given the green light by ICANN earlier this year – in spite of warnings that ... read more ...
 
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DigiCert is considering SSL certificates for more Tor hidden services - Certificate authority DigiCert is considering issuing SSL certificates to more Tor .onion address owners after recently providing Facebook with one.However, SSL certificates for pseudo-top-level domains like .onion that don't actually exist on the Internet are in the process of being phased out and the Tor Project has not yet decided if Tor websites getting SSL certificates is a good thing.Last week, Facebook made its website accessible inside the Tor anonymity network by setting up a so-called Tor ... read more ...
 
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ICYMI: 2014 in Review - A look back at the past year in the domain name business. Over the past week I released a podcast and five posts covering five big themes in the domain name business in 2014. I know a lot of people travel or unplug over the holidays, so here’s a summary: Consolidation continued in the domain name industry in 2014, from blockbusters like .Co selling for more than $100M to smaller deals such as Agreed Escrow. Conditions for further consolidation exist, so stay tuned ... read more ...
 
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How to Use Sched.org to get a many out of NamesCon - Sched.org makes it easier to take advantage of NamesCon’s great keynotes and panel discussions. NamesCon starts on Sunday in Las Vegas. It’s going to be big (800+ people) and packed with content (125 speakers and panelists). With a number of concurrent sessions, planning is required to make sure you don’t miss out on the sessions that most interest you. This year, NamesCon used Sched.org to create the schedule. Attendees have received an emailed invitation to ... read more ...
 
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Garry Chernoff sells Montrose.com for $75,000 - Domain name investor starts the year with a good sale. Longtime domain name investor Garry Chernoff has started 2015 with a nice sale: Montrose.com at $75,000. The domain name now shows CSC Corporate Domains, a brand domain name registrar, as registrant. Chernoff says the company approached him about the domain name. Montrose is a city in Colorado, a neighborhood in Houston and the name of a band. I went through the first 10 results on Google, and none of the sites ... read more ...
 
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September’s .Com winners and losers - Moniker lost, PublicDomainRegistry gained. ICANN has published official registry reports from September (always three months in arrears), showing that Moniker dropped below one million .com domain names registered. The chart below shows the ten domain name registrars with the most successful .com transfers out, and then compares this against the number of successful .com transfers in. Registrars that “won” for the month will have a blue column taller than the ... read more ...
 
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Domain name registry Afilias dumps designed IPO - Registry had planned to float in November. Domain name registry Afilias has pulled plans for a $100 million initial public offering, as reported by Domain Incite this morning. A company spokesperson told Domain Incite, “The final decision to cancel the IPO was based on market conditions at the time.” Given that stock markets are at record highs, that’s a euphemism for “investors weren’t interested in our IPO”. While stock markets are doing well, the same ... read more ...
Mon 5th January 2015
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2014: Here is Our Thoughts On The New gTLD Program & Some Predictions for 2015 - The new gTLD’s were certain the talk of the domain industry in 2014. I thought it would be a good time to take a look at where the program is in our opinion and make a few predictions for 2015. The new gTLD ‘s ended with lets call it 3,650,000 domain name registrations just to round the numbers off. We did an analysis when the new gTLD’s hit 3.5 million and backing out the free domains and domains registered by the registry or parties related closely to the registry we figured there were about ... read more ...
 
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New .LGBT Domain Sunrise Period Begins - Global registry services provider Afilias today announced the beginning of the one-month "sunrise" period for the top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community: dot LGBT or .LGBT. The sunrise period allows trademark holders to register names immediately; after which registration will be open to all LGBT community members and those serving it beginning February 10, 2015. With "LGBT" being most preferred term by the community, the .LGBT web ... read more ...
 
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Go Only for Big Bang gTLD Rebranding - If you're considering rebranding under a new gTLD, go with a comprehensive big bang. A recent study by professors Dale Miller, Bill Merrilees, and Raisa Yakimova ("Corporate Rebranding: An Integrative Review of Major Enablers and Barriers to the Rebranding Process”) finds that success comes when senior management makes an unweaving commitment based on proactive analyses of the entire value-chain, with buy-in and input from employees and suppliers. Rebranding companies should not ignore the ... read more ...