Since the general availability phase of the new .TEL domain started on March 24th, the registry has now already passed 100,000 registrations according to insider sources. A 6-12 hour delay in new domain propagation, seems to confirm the high registry load. It seems that many investors, speculators and other registrants flock to the launch of [...]
In light of the news that Toys.com lost it’s Google placement, DNN reached out to SEO consultant John Andrews to get his take on the Toys.com deal and his view on an effective strategy to take using this multi-million dollar domain name asset. When Toys ‘R’ Us sought toys.com in a biding war with National [...]
Startup with hyphenated domain gets $1m USD in seed & angel funding, Frank Schilling owns non-hyphenated version [Conceptualist] Bido is launching another new feature today, giving bidders whose pre-auction bids wins the auction 2% in cashback in order to encourage proxy bids placed prior to the beginning of the auction. [Conceptualist] Tia Wood launches BulkDevelopment.com, [...]
DN Media Corporation and Telepathy, Inc. have launched a joint-venture services for domainers called MiniSites.com. The new website offers affordable mini site development packages to help domainers monetize their online assets. “We are thrilled to be partnered with Nat Cohen of Telepathy on this project,” said Bogdan Nastea, the co-founder of DN Media. “Nat has [...]
The Domain Consultant Domain Madness auction is just around the corner – and you only have about 12 more hours to participate in the contest to win $1000. The contest closes at 11:59pm CDT on March 25 and auction bidding begins immediately after. The contest is very simple and only takes a couple minutes of [...]
This Friday, March 27, is the deadline for submitting your domains for the live and extended auctions at TRAFFIC Silicon Valley. Although the auctions won’t be taking place until April 29, Moniker has set this deadline to ensure they can release a catalog as soon as possible. The auction team is still interested in receiving [...]
Garden furniture is a big deal in Germany, at least according to this week’s domain sales report by Sedo which had the IDN gartenmöbel.de and its non-IDN counterpart gartenmoebel.de selling together for €100,000. A few other big sales included 92.com for €54,000, Geneve.com (”Geneva” in French) for €15,500, Tech.de for €15,000, Loisirs.fr (”recreation” in French) [...]
This week’s AfternicDLS report includes 383 domains selling for over $680,000 USD. While the highlights include LAInsurance.com at $100,000, BrandH.com for $20,000, and Competicion.com for $10,000 (Spanish for “competition”) – there are plenty of others worth studying. Check out the full list after the jump… .COM Domains Price lainsurance.com $ 100,000 bandh.com $ 20,000 competicion.com [...]
According to recent reports, the Conficker C worm – a malicious program that allows a master computer to take control of “zombie” PCs – will be active again on April 1, 2009. The news has domain name registries – such as Nominet for .uk and CIRA for .ca – increasing security measures for their domain [...]
Sedo will be exhibiting at the Internet World Show April 28-30th at Earls Court in London. This conference is one of the biggest digital media… Sedo will be exhibiting at the Internet World Show April 28-30th at Earls Court in London. This conference is one of the biggest digital media and technology shows around! Stop [...]