Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expire domain name sales. Last time, I looked at whether a sharp downturn in the Chinese stock market has inhibited Chinese domain sales. So far, all evidence I’ve evaluated suggests that it’s business as usual for the wholesale Chinese domain market: high peak prices and churning liquidity. Expired auctions at NameJet from the past week bolster [...] Continue reading →

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Just one out of every 10 governments in the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee is happy for people to register its country name in new gTLDs. That’s according to a new GAC database detailing which countries want to keep tabs on how their names are being used. Out of 80 GAC members contributing to the database, [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday was one of those days.  Come back to work and find things a little worse than you left them.  Everyone works hard and I try to make sure everyone can keep the company running smoothly but there are always a few things you take granted as little things but they aren’t shared.  The other [...] Continue reading →

  Another two letter dot com was sold yesterday for $615,000.   Jason McArdie, President of sales for QLQ.com  let me know yesterday that they had officially brokered the sale of the LL.com.  Jason said July and August were record month for the brokerage firm and of course I’ll have details on those sales in the near [...] Continue reading →

A one member UDRP panel awarded the domain name kraftheinz.com was registered on March 25, 2015, the same day the merger between Kraft Foods Group, and H.J. Heinz Company was announced. The decision was published in Korean and we used Google translate. The panel said: “Registering a domain name that combines the names of the [...] Continue reading →

In 2012 we interviewed Fred Mercaldo on RobbiesBlog.com, It was a great interview so we decided to go back and revisit the questions we asked in 2012 and get Fred’s thoughts now in 2015. Who is Fred Mercaldo and City Brand Media? Here is an update by Fred, Last November, 2014, we were fortunate enough to [...] Continue reading →