Media company investing in .com – investing.com As reported by TechCrunch Investing.com was bought for $2.45 Million USD by Virgin Island based Forexpros/Fusion Media Ltd. As TechCrunch writes, with the purchase, Forexpros will today launch a global financial portal under the Investing.com URL, where it plans to offer a free resource for novice and [...] Continue reading →

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Dec. 11, 2012) — Go Daddy, the world’s largest provider of Web hosting, domain name registrations and new SSL Certificates, today announced Blake Irving, formerly a long time Microsoft executive and Chief Product Officer of Yahoo! Incorporated (“Yahoo”), will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), effective January 7, 2013.  Irving [...] Continue reading →

As announced last week, Melissa Dafni joined Above.com. Melissa is a veteran in the domain industry. She has extensive experience around all three of the major components offered by the Above Investor Platform – domain monetization management, domain name registration and the domain auction marketplace. Prior to joining Above.com, Melissa served as Domain Manager at [...] Continue reading →

Here’s is Sedo’s weekly sales report – highlights of public sales include: Top .com: hotelsguide.com at 60,000 USD Top ccTLD: verzuimmanagement.nl at 12,100 EUR Top “other” TLD: roulette.biz at 6,750 EUR As The Domains points out the sales report includes Internet-Traffic.com sold for $1,000, which is similar to Frank Schilling’s domain monetization business [...] Continue reading →

According to a Reuters release United States and European authorities seized 132 domain names. According to DNN’s knowledge this is the first time that an international cooperation in order to seize domain names happened like this: ICE agents seized 101 domain names in the United States and 31 were taken over by [...] Continue reading →

The applicant who recently launched their preregistration and information site about .AUTO, also launched a site for their application for .FOOD. There are two other applicants for the same TLD. And in order to avoid having to report the trickle of the other releases, here are some of the other sites for this applicant’s [...] Continue reading →

Earlier today Domain Guardians released a list of big brands that are using Premium Domain names on their website. The Domain Guardians team writes about the list on Facebook: Together with a number of industry peers, we have compiled a list of major companies that have acquired and own premium domain names. [...] Thanks to [...] Continue reading →