Panama City, Panama – November 13, 2012 – Tess Diaz, one of Go Daddy’s most tenured and trusted Executive Account Managers for the past 6 1/2 years, has accepted a new Coordinator of Business Development position with the Domain Name Brokerage Firm Media Options. In addition to offering premium domain brokerage services, Media Options [...] Continue reading →

The French domain registrar Rapidomaine.fr. announced today that they obtained the Trusted Shops Trustmark certification. Trusted Shops, leading service provider for secure online shopping in Europe, announces the certification of the site rapidomaine.fr:  legal compliance and refund guarantee secured. In order to join the circle of e-commerce sites that have been certified by Trusted Shops, [...] Continue reading →

Remaining Sedo Founders To Leave After 12 Years After Sedo (FRA:SDO)’s CEO and co-founder, Tim Schumacher, left earlier this year, the company today announced changes to its executive team including the planned departure of three co-founders and the company’s chief sales officer. The transitions will take place during the first quarter of 2013, when Founders Ulrich [...] Continue reading →

Sedo Weekly Sales Report up to October 29th, 2012 This week, 892 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling nearly $2.3 million. Over 38% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: calcio.com at 50,000 EUR Top ccTLD: webhosting.co.uk at 500,000 USD [...] Continue reading →

New charity to provide hearing aids to those who cannot afford them Ken Hansen, Senior Direct Business Development and General Manager for .NYC,  is a not a newcomer to the domain industry, he’s been working in Telecommunications and with domain names for a long time. Inspired by his own need to wear a hearing aid [...] Continue reading →

After releasing single and two letter .co.uk domain names, Nominet, the operator of the .UK ccTLD is currently running a consultation on a release of domains under the second level, i.e. example.uk.On his site MyDomainNames.co.uk domain industry veteran Edwin Hayward from Memorable Domains details why he opposes the proposed procedure for release of those domains with [...] Continue reading →

Sedo’s monthly Greatdomains auction ends in about four hours at noon EDT today on October 25th, 2012. See the current bids below. Click here to bid on any of the names. DomainPriceBidsTrafficBid now pug.com25,000 USD40Bid Now pathology.com12,000 USD40Bid Now valuable.com12,000 USD30Bid Now [...] Continue reading →