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The Week of Domaining In Review: June 1, 2014.The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.Las Vegas Review Journal Covers..., Kevin Ham Successfully Defends UDRP..., First ICANN "Auction of Last..., ICANN Radar Registrar Database to..., Scroogle.org Closes at $17,100 On..., The Internet Commerce Association Website..., How Much are New gTLDs..., ICANN Registrar Database Hacked, Sex.xxx [...] Continue reading
Switching from a .com to a .link Jean Guillon runs newsgtlds.com and he wrote about wanting to change to a .link on gtld.club. From the article: This is one question that I have at the moment Prior to the first new domain name launchings, I had created a website entitled NEWSgTLDs.com to inform about new [...] Continue reading
First of all: Congratulations to Mike Mann for selling the domain name, WatermelonWoman.com sometime in March. We covered the domain in the past, noting that Mike’s asking price was $350 dollars. It’s thus safe to assume that WatermelonWoman.com was sold for that much, and its new registrant, artist Tyler Goldfarb, is currently not checking his [...] Continue reading
Listed below are updates to the top 10 domain sales from a year ago this week, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. BoatsForSale.com for $162,500 Forwards to SingletonMarineGroup.com. The company has over 10 locations in four states, and does everything from buy and sell boats and other watercraft, to run marinas. “In 1988, my [...] Continue reading
The domain name Kaleidoscope.com, about a generic as a term as you can get, was just hit with a UDRP. The domain is owned by Xedoc Holding SA., who has owned the domain since at least 2001 and maybe as far back as 1999 Of course the term has its [...] Continue reading
Considered the “crown jewel” keyword in any TLD, the domain name Sex.co changed hands in early January of this year, according to historic WHOIS data from DomainTools. While it probably did not reach the reported sale of Sex.xxx for $3 million USD, Sex.co probably fetched a pretty penny in a yet undocumented sale. Its current [...] Continue reading