The deadline to submit comments on the Final Report [PDF, 4.89 MB] of the Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice (CCT) Review Team has been extended until Tuesday, 11 December 23:59 UTC. This Public Comment proceeding is aimed at gathering community input on the CCT Review Team’s Final Report and Recommendations. The CCT Review Team [...] Continue reading →

DotCoop has announced ICANN extended the contract for the .coop top level domain on 16 November to allow them to continue managing the TLD for the cooperative movement for the next 10 years. .COOP launched in 2001 and is managed by DotCooperation LLC (DotCoop), which is jointly owned by the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA [...] Continue reading →

You know I like buy and sell posts that have real names with real sales. Or at least names and prices. I have no idea if they are real.  But its a heck of a lot more fun to read than “a name for some price”.  Joshua Schoen had a sales and pickup list [...] Continue reading →

Last week it was a short 2 character .de domain name topping the weekly charts, this week it was a 2 character .com domain name in a big $700,000 sale. In a sale through NameExperts, mk.com topped the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 11 November followed by avoid.com, [...] Continue reading →

I just got back to San Francisco after spending the evening in Silicon Valley at an event for angel investors. When I’m at events like this first I realize what a newbie I am when it comes to investing, and second, I can’t help but pay attention to the domain names that early stage [...] Continue reading →

Today:  Monetizing A Domain Name / Buying LLL.CO Domains – Total Budget: $1,000.00 / EduFair.com sold for $3,550 / And more! Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: .TV domainer-to-domainer market – Are you reselling your .tv ccTLD domain assets wholesale to other domain investors? Are you buying wholesale [...] Continue reading →

DataRecovery.com president Benjamin Carmitchel says his big domain purchase was worth it. In 2008, ESS Data Recovery bought the domain name DataRecovery.com from Associated Computers, Inc. of Minnesota for $1.659 million. I recently caught up with company president Benjamin Carmitchel to find out how the deal played out now that he has ten years of experience with [...] Continue reading →