Today: The Appraisal Of BuyCamera.uk / Register & RENEW .ICU for $1.39 / A private equity firm is buying all of the .org domains – to be concerned or not? / and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the [...] Continue reading →

Attorney tried to intimidate domain name owner to settle dispute. Decoweb Brands, S.A. of Spain has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name MaisonDecor.com. It certainly seems like Decoweb’s counsel tried to bully the domain owner into handing the domain over. According to the World Intellectual Property [...] Continue reading →

Internet Society reveals the price it is selling out for. On a webinar today, Internet Society has purportedly disclosed that Ethos Capital will pay $1.35 billion to acquire the .org registry from it: #Internetsociety offered 1b and 135mil$USD for #.ORG from Ethos Capital, disclosed only now at a special webinar — Desiree (@Des) [...] Continue reading →

It looks like GoDaddy's NameFind portfolio has sold the two-letter domain name VT.com. According to DomainIQ, the deal took place in the past few weeks. The buyer of the name is Hostgator founder Brent Oxley, who has now added his second two-letter .COM name to his portfolio after reportedly acquiring RX.com for $1 million in [...] Continue reading →

Hello and happy Friday! For those of you here in the US that celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, I hope you had a great time with family and friends. As I’ve said before, I don’t do much Black Friday shopping in stores, but I do often lock in some great domain deals [...] Continue reading →

A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on November 28, 2019. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve.  I’m only showing where [...] Continue reading →

Caroline Greer, Head of European Public Policy at Cloudflare, posted a tweet with the reported sale price of PIR, the operator of the .org registry. I do not have a way to independently verify the report or confirm it’s accuracy: .@internetsociety webinar delivers news of the sale price of PIR > $1.135 billion, a perpetual [...] Continue reading →