Yahoo Increases Annual Domain Renewal Price by 30%
Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 16 May 2008
When the rest of the domain industry increases prices by 10% because Verisign announced an overall price increase for .com domains, most of us understood the reasoning and accepted the price hike reluctantly. But when Yahoo! recently announced in March that the annual renewal price for a domain is increasing from $9.95 to $12.95 a year, a whopping 30% increase, we weren’t quite sure why such an increase was warranted?!
DomainGraduate Reviews TDNAM Auctions
Posted by Chief Editor , Friday, 16 May 2008
This evening, Jude Augusta, contributing author of DomainGraduate, writes:
"Having been served well by my account reps at GoDaddy in previous episodes, I decided to hit mine up once again. Tess Diaz answers the phone call: “Hi Jude. Yes, of course we can help you with that. Here’s what you do. Sure, I can email you the steps to make it clear. No problem.”
Although I always feel I’m a bother, Tess certainly never makes any suggestion to lend to that notion. Indeed I received very comprehensive instructions to a vault of expiring names that is the online equivalent of the U.S. Treasury…
CBS Acquiring CNET for $1.8 Billion, Deal Includes Web Properties
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Via Search Engine Journal:
"CBS is making a major Internet and news powerplay, acquiring CNET for $11.50 per share (44% more than CNET is trading at) for a total of $1.8 Billion.
CNet’s “Lucrative Domain Names” Help Justify Acquisition
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Tech reporter Sarah Lacy points out what most in the domain business take for granted. Dutch Ministry Wants Guarantees from .NL Domain Registry SIDN
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs wants guarantees that the .nl domain will remain sovereign and accessible under all circumstances. State Secretary, Frank Heemskerk, believes that since the .nl domain has such large public interest, the security and sovereignty for the Netherlands must be guaranteed by domain registry SIDN. To that end, the Ministry wants to sign an agreement with Dutch Domain Registry SIDN in mid-June, which will help secure those concerns. This move is reflected in a written reply by the State Secretary that was also addressing concerns about the collapsed landrush of numeric domains, which we reported on earlier.
Sedo BeNeLux Auction Results
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Here are the results of the Sedo’s BeNeLux Auction featuring .nl, .be & .lu domains, held on May 9th. Over 7000 people viewed the auction and in our estimate about 330 bids were posted. The auction was extended by nearly 2.5 hours before kinderwagens.nl and relatiegeschenk.nl were sold.
The results are listed in Euros:
relatiegeschenk.nl 72,000
huren.nl 66,500
kinderwagens.nl 10,100
planten.nl 7,500
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Since domain names have a direct correlation with trademark law for many of us, we want to mention that The International Trademark Association’s (INTA) 130th Annual Meeting is the one must-attend event in the intellectual property industry, and the 2008 meeting in Berlin between May 17th and 21st is set to be the best yet. There will be five days of networking, educational and professional development opportunities, as well as committee meetings and exhibits…
Sedo.com Sales May 5th – May13th
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Here is our weekly report listing the Sedo.com sales between May 5th and May 13th:
.com Sales
taz.com 40,000 USD GreatDomains chianti.com 28,500 USD GreatDomains posse.com 24,500 USD diw.com 12,500 USD ylc.com 10,100 USD textr.com 8,750 USD
yachtshop.com 7,600 USD
wzb.com 7,100 USD GreatDomains gonk.com 7,000 USD motionsports.com 6,700 USD vko.com 6,100 EUR
zoyo.com 6,000 EUR
CEO of Pool.com Responds to Allegations of Foul Play
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 15 May 2008
Today, we received a reply from Richard Schreier, CEO of Pool.com in response to our recent article referring to accusation that the dotAsia Registry and Pool.com of foul play during the .asia auction process last year. Mr. Schreier wrote…
"Dear Chief Editor,
I would like to provide a response to the false and defamatory statements posted at www.dotasia-complot.org by Thomas Reucker and Madunia Modellbau GmbH. It should be noted that we believe the actions taken by Thomas Reucker and Madunia Modellbau GmbH are a retaliation by Reucker/Madunia as a result of their exclusion from certain DotAsia auctions (which Reucker/Madunia itself discloses on the “notes” section of the website). This exclusion was the result of the investigation by Pool.com and the DotAsia Organisation into possible bid rigging (ref. here), which in Canada is a criminal act punishable by fines and imprisonment…
