Go Daddy and Afternic reports $1,625,205 USD in sales for the week from 10/14/13 – 10/20/1. The top six reported Sales at Go Daddy / Afternic this week were: livid.com for $19,000 USD pbex.com for $12,000 USD cinehost.com for $9,950 USD ccsports.com for $7,500 USD purelights.com for $7,500 USD nowrinkles.com for $7,500 USD [...] Continue reading →

A once in a generation opportunity to purchase the premium domain name: Mario.com. Pop singers, world class chefs, fashion houses, race car drivers and even plumbers share the name Mario, but there is only one Mario.com. In a once in a generation event, this coveted generic domain name has come on the market. DomainAgents is [...] Continue reading →

And here are the winners of this year’s Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. awards, as the were announced by VinsDomains.com on Twitter live from the event. BANDIT BERKENS” GOODWILL AMBASSADOR AWARD Winner: Gregg McNair Nominees: Adam Dicker Alan Hack Barbara Neu Elliot Silver Merlin Kauffman Michael Cyger Nat Cohen Richard Lau Rick Schwartz (declined) Ron [...] Continue reading →

I’m reporting live from TRAFFIC’s auction.  Results will be updated live . Please excuse any typos. All domains that did not sell will be put in to the Above.com silent auction which ends October 31st at 3:00 pm Eastern   firesidechat.com $100 foodtogo.com pass item 104 – $125 bidder 356 artdecofurniture.com – pass peppermintvodka.com – [...] Continue reading →

A new domain name conference, NamesCon, will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 13th to 15th, 2014.  Well-known industry veteran, Richard Lau is the founder of the event and he has tapped Jodi Chamberlain from 32Events, to help coordinate.  Both Lau and Chamberlain are no strangers to domain events.  Lau has been involved in organizing [...] Continue reading →

As reported by TechCrunch, Go Daddy has acquired hosting company Media Temple, also know as (mt). Financial details of the acquisition, which did not include website builder Virb, which is being spun out, were not published. The two companies are going be operated separately. [TechCrunch, Press Release, Media Temple FAQ] Related posts: Strata PPX [...] Continue reading →

According to a blog post by the Office 365 team, customers can now purchase their domains from Go Daddy directly through the product’s interface. The domain will then directly be enabled for use with Office 365 by setting up the correct nameservers and DNS records at the time of registration Anybody got an Office 365 [...] Continue reading →