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Winpalace.com was the highest reported domain name sale on July 3rd,2016. The domain name changed hands for $5,600 . According to namebio.com, there were 134 domain name sales on July 3rd,2016, totaling $76,781 . Here are the highest reported domain name sales on July 3rd,2016 : winpalace.com $5,600 …
.VIP Registry has just released a new infographic for the first 30 days of the new gTLD .VIP . According to the new infographic, there were 418,000 .vip domain name registrations and total billings exceeded $6 million dollars. Moreover, 48 .VIP domains sold during an auction with an average selling…
After Gary Klausner admitted his mistake with the preliminary order, that obstructed .africa to be delegated to DCA competitor ZA Central Registry, he now suggests that ICANN could be wrong. In his opinion ICANN made DCA bear the Geographic Names Review as each other new gTLD user. To…
What it should have been a pleasant and productively growth, it is actually a less trust in the new gTLDs. According to an ICANN- supported survey, conducted by Nielsen, things are different than a year ago. Compared to last year (14%), the recently published Global Consumer Survey shows that…
Domain investor Rick Schwartz has put in order this month a UDRP case against a domain registrar for the domain DomainKing.biz, which eventually lost it. The domain registrar area of operations is mostly in Philippines and South Africa, selling domain names as .za, .co and .ph. After establishing…
Faqs.com was the highest reported domain name sale on June 26th,2016. The domain name changed hands for $7,905 . According to namebio.com, there were 138 domain name sales on June 26th,2016, totaling $72,764. Here are the highest reported domain name sales on June 26th,2016 : faqs.com $7,905 GoDaddy…
.VIP Registry has just released a new infographic for the first 30 days of the new gTLD .VIP . According to the new infographic, there were 418,000 .vip domain name registrations and total billings exceeded $6 million dollars. Moreover, 48 .VIP domains sold during an auction with an average selling…
Donuts has recently made public the $70 million offer to purchase Rightside’ s new TLD name business. According to Donuts, this offer was made known to the public due to Rightside’ s lack of attention over the past approaches. And probably this is a strategy to put pressure on…
Agrichem.com was the highest reported domain name sale on June 25th,2016. The domain name changed hands for $4,650 . According to namebio.com, there were 164 domain name sales on June 25th,2016, totaling $75,854. Here are the highest reported domain name sales on June 25th,2016 : agrichem.com $4,650 DropCatch…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its Phase 2 Global Consumer Research Survey. Conducted by Nielsen, the study measured current consumer attitudes toward the gTLD landscape and domain name system (DNS), as well as changes in consumer attitudes from the first wave study…
DigitalTown Inc. has recently announced that it has acquired more than 11,000 .city domain names . The company announced that the acquisition is part of the new ” generation of intuitive “Smart Web” navigation extensions approved by ICANN, the global domain name industry regulator. ” ” The .CITY domain extension…
Yuo.com was the highest reported domain name sale on June 24th,2016. The domain name changed hands for $19,999 . According to namebio.com, there were 218 domain name sales on June 24th,2016, totaling $159,367. Here are the highest reported domain name sales on June 24th,2016 : yuo.com $19,999 Sedo…
Donuts has recently expressed its intention to acquire all of Rightside’s new gTLDs and related assets for $70 million. You can read the press release after the jump : “Donuts Inc., the world’s largest operator of new domain name extensions, today publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s…
Atomizer.com was the highest reported domain name sale on June 23rd,2016. The domain name changed hands for $10,000 . According to namebio.com, there were 169 domain name sales on June 23rd,2016, totaling $121,850. Here are the highest reported domain name sales on June 23rd,2016 : atomizer.com $10,000 NameJet…
Mallorca.net, sold for $33,900 , topped Domain Name Journal’s sales list of reported domain names for the week ending June 19,2016. Sedo had a great week in the sales chart,taking 17 of the top 20 positions .Correspondingly,SnapNames took only one of the top 20 positions . .COM dominated once again…
The relationship between TLD Registry and previous back-end provider Afilias appears not to be a good one. This may be caused by the “Notice of Material Breach” of the contract, that Afilias received earlier this year from TDLR. The notice was menacing to move its 2 gTLDs to a competitor…
LiveSupport.com was the highest reported domain name sale on June 21th,2016. The domain name changed hands for $18,100 . According to namebio.com, there were 194 domain name sales on June 21th,2016, totaling $131,128. Here are the highest reported domain name sales on June 21th,2016 : livesupport.com $18,100 Flippa yido.com $12,000…
CentralNic took possession of Verisign’s role in the back-end contract for the prospective .art gTLD. According to CentralNic, UK Creative Ideas nominated the company as its ““exclusive registry service provider”. UK Creative Ideas is the one who purchased .art at a private auction a year ago. Apparently UK…
xhu.com was the highest reported domain name sale on June 20th,2016. The domain name changed hands for $16,125 . According to namebio.com, there were 171 domain name sales on June 20th,2016, totaling $130,554. Here are the highest reported domain name sales on June 20th,2016 : xhu.com $16,125 4.CN investmentbroker.com $15,000…
Afnic, the company behind .FR domain name extension, has recently published figures about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). You can read the announcement after the jump : “In line with the work on ICANN accountability and responsibility, Afnic is pursuing its efforts to strengthen the organization’s…
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