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According to a recent post, Dave Evanson, one of Sedo’s best domain name brokers, has just sold the domain name Circa.com for a whopping $150,000.
Dave Evanson made the following announcement :
“Just sold circa(.)com for $150,000!! Congrats to buyer and seller!!”
At the time of writing this article, Whois information has not been updated yet. Moreover, the domain name does not resolve to a websit.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in August 1995.
Congratulations to both the seller and the buyer.
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Heritage Auctions announced recently the domain name list for th Domain Names Signature Auction, to be held in San Francisco starting April 19,2016.
The auction will end April 18th,2016 and on the 19th, the live domain name auction will start.
In order to participate you have to have a Heritag Auctions account.
Here is the list :
Lot 1 » NJOQ.com Lot 2 » Beho.com Lot 3 » VVF.com Lot 4 » TitanSilver.com Lot 5 » Balloon.com Lot 6 » LQMS.com Lot 7 » Blaze.com Lot 8 » Sex.co Lot 9 » 720.com Lot 10 » Helicopter.com Lot 11 » GHFZ.com Lot 12 » 4 Letter dot com Portfolio. (LLLL portfolio) Lot 13 » Snowboard.com Lot 14 » Quick.com Lot 15 » KBTN.com Lot 16 » X.biz Lot 17 » WCM.com Lot 18 » Tablets.com Lot 19 » NP.net Lot 20 » OJL.com Lot 21 » VE.com Lot 22 » Z6.org Lot 23 » Release.com Lot 24 » FSMQ.com Lot 25 » Leash.com Lot 26 » GMK.com Lot 27 » DoctorateDegree.com Lot 28 » Jolt.com Lot 29 » Daiquiri.com Lot 30 » Timeless.com Lot 31 » XFactor.com Lot 32 » Sock.com Lot 33 » Dot.net Lot 34 » Townhomes.com – Plus Website and Traffic Lot 35 » WS.net Lot 36 » KLDN.com Lot 37 » Sit.com Lot 38 » BG.net Lot 39 » TartanJacket.com Lot 40 » IXUJ.com Lot 41 » Kitty.ca
Lot 42 » SAXQ.com

New TLD company Donuts has grown a lot in the last years, at this moment having 1.7 million domain names under management and around 40 employees.
You can now see updates in terms of premium domains, renewal rates, marketing, Donuts Labs and future development.
Premium Domains
The premium pricing model, where registrants have to pay more than normal, is not new, but it’s an important aspect of their strategy.
Considering the 72,000 premium names currently registered, it makes you admit the premium model is working for Donuts. The 72,000 premiums produce $9 million in annual recurring income.
From the total amount of 325,000 premium names that are being sold for more than $100, about 20 percent are registered. Still, many other premium domains are being sold under $100.
Premium domain names constitute under 5 percent of volume, but 15 percent of sales.
Renewal Rates
Donuts renewal rates are coming in at roughly 70%, which is very close to the initial predictions, while its competitor and partner reports to be close to 60%.
This success is owed to the advantage of second-time renewals, Donuts’ domains being likely to renew at higher rates and the fact the company hasn’t committed oneself to much in promotions on the first year of registrations.
Marketing
At the beginnings, Donuts had a wrong perspective of how to market its products. For Donuts was only one product to promote and that was the new TLDs as an unit. Now they view each TLD as a distinct product to advertise and have in their strategy to promote the domains independently.
“Certainly, we are now doing marketing around categories.” were the word of Tindal.
A good example could be the photography exhibition from a few years ago, where .camera, . gallery, .equipment, .photos, . photography and .lighting were promoted.
Donuts Labs Program
Donuts’ new acquisition, Tim Favia (VP of Corporate Development), is in charged with Donuts Labs Program. The program intends to have its first investment in companies that have multiple ways to use DNS or are able to market new uses for domains.
Tim Favia is doing his best to get new TLDs, but the prices are still a hassle, according to Stahura.
Therefore more consolidation in the TLD space continues to be in debates.
Favia said, “Right before consolidation you have a disparity between owner perceived value and market value.”
The company has recently obtained .reise in an auction, but it’s already craving for another acquisition, perhaps when the resale market prices won’t be so high.
Stahura said Donuts will sell a domain from its portfolio only if the appropriate strategic buyer will appear.
Future Growth
As Rightside did it, Donuts forecasted as well a fast growth for the coming years.
“Awareness will improve, channel presentment will improve and our marketing efforts will get more efficient over time,” are Stahura’ s predictions.
Last month Rightside expressed its expectations by 2019-2021 ($50-$75 million on annual registry income), which is a lot more than the $8.4 million the company produced last year.

eHardware.com was the highest reported domain name sale on June 17th,2016. The domain name was sold for $7,500.
According to NameBio.com, there were 190 domain name sales on June 17th,2016, totaling $106,526.
Here are the highest reported domain name sales on June 17th,2016 :
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niangshu.com $1,026 GoDaddy

With the announcement of ICANN56 relocation to Helsinki, Finland the application round to participate in the NextGen@ICANN Program at Meeting B* in June 2016 is now open. This round remains open until 18 April 2016 and successful candidates will be announced on the ICANN website, 2 May 2016.
*Please note Meeting B is specifically focused on policy making and on-going work within ICANN Communities.
The NextGen@ICANN Program
The NextGen@ICANN program remains the same for Meeting A, B and C: it is an education and awareness based experience, designed for a smaller, younger and more region-specific group of participants. Applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 30, live in the region of the meeting and be engaged in some level of higher education, with focus on Internet related subject matter. Each selected member will deliver a 5-10 minute presentation on a topic relevant to the community. Recent presentation topics include Internet governance, DNS and the future of the Internet.
This announcement was sourced from :
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The Coordination Center for TLD RU, announced recently that 128 domain names have been deleted or blocked in January,2016.
You can read the announcement after the jump:
” In January 2016, Group-IB sent 161 requests to authorized registrars to delete the delegation of domain names that are guilty of various violations. Following these requests, 128 domain names have been deleted or blocked.
Of the remaining 33 delegated domain names, 26 were not blocked because their administrators quickly rectified the deficiencies. Seven domain names were later unblocked at the request of CERT-GIB after their owners resolved the problems following a routine procedure.
The largest group of violators was guilty of phishing (74 percent) and the smallest group (6 percent) comprised botnet controllers.
Group-IB exposes violators under an agreement with the Coordination Center for TLD RU on preventing the unauthorized use of .RU and .?? domains. In particular, Group-IB is certified to prevent the misuse of domain names in .RU and .?? domains such as phishing, illegal access to information systems, the spread of malware and the management of bot-infected computer networks.
For details on online reporting of cyber threats and other criminal activities, go to the website of the Coordination Center for TLD RU.”
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PepsiCO has recently files a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum, seeking control over two Pepsi-related domain names.
The two disputed domain names are : pepsicofinance.com and pepsicofinanceeurope.org
The company filed the complaint on March 18,2016.
The National Arbitration Forum will examine over the next days if the domain names are confusingly similar to Pepsi’s trademark, if the current owner has rights over it and if the domain names are being used in bad faith.If it falls under all these three stipulations, the domain name will be passed over to PepsiCO.
At the time of writing this article, the case is still pending compliance checks with the National Arbitration Forum.
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Remember those emails that ICANN requires for verification emails that registrars must send to domain owners? For your safety and your domain name the first thing is suggested to do is to verify the authenticity of the email, by checking the validity and the sender.
The purpose of this is to verify the whois information and avoid to be tricked by the fraudsters. In case you did not respond in 15 days after the register requires you the data you can have over or suspended your domain name, or to be locked it until the registrar is able to provide all the necessary information of the registrant.
Don’t expect to receive the email from the domain registrant the domain is recorded with, you should be tracking to see an email coming from DomainVerification.net with the email address of support@domainverification.net. This domain was first registered in December 31, 2015.
For a clearer vision of how the email should look like, find out that the notice is about the ICANN verification rule, thing mentioned both on the top and below it.
“Please update within 24-48 hours to avoid domain name suspension. ICANN, the internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, requires that all domain registrars maintain correct and current WHOIS contact data for domain owners.”- a few words from ICANN to the issue.
If you were ignoring it thinking how much money will take you this check you should be in peace because your domain registrar will not charge you a coin for offering the data ICANN needs. But if you did pay anything with DomainVerification.net and did not bother to reply the email from your registrar, your domain name will still be suspended.
No matter your answer, accurate or not accurate, the email will direct you to a page where you are charged between $93.95 and $49.95 a year ($9.95 for a 501 c-3). You will not found any address or phone number regarding the company, the DomainVerification.net site has just a section with “about us”.
How to confirm verification emails is official and legitimate?
Before clicking any link in any mail you receive by a different source, please confirm the email is send from your registrar. If you are having second thoughts check again or ask for help.
You should not be paying for verification emails, it’s FREE, despite it’s mandatory to send your Whois information as ICANN required.
If the site doesn’t contain any valid information about the company, like contact details, address or phone number, you should not trust in that company. Pay attention before any move you make.
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Toyota,has recently filed a complaint against the owner of three Toyota-related domain names,seeking control of it.
Toyota filed the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum on March 9th,2016.
The three disputed domain names are : toyotaofmarysville.com, toyotamarysville.com and marysvilletoyota.com.
According to whois records,all three domain names were first registered in March,2009.
The National Arbitration Forum will examine over the next days if the domain names are confusingly similar to Toyota’s trademark,if the current owner has rights over it and if the domains are being used in bad faith . The disputed domain names will be passed over to Toyota if it falls under all three of these stipulations.
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9191.net was the highest reported domain name sale on February 6th,2016. The domain name was sold for $6,750.
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