Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact    Latest News 7 reasons why I’m going to NamesCon Here’s why I’m going to NamesCon next month. The first ever NamesCon domain name conference takes place January 13-15 in Las Vegas. Here’s why I’m going to the conference: 1. I was already planning on going to a conference in January. DomainSponsor usually holds its Webfest conference at the end of January or ... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 15:43 A dozen end user domain name sales Dun & Bradstreet among end user buyers last week at Sedo/Afternic. I’m posting a lot of end user sales reports this week thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday last week. You’ll note that this report for Afternic/GoDaddy from last week has only a dozen sales. I’d like to reiterate that these are just the sales that... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 10:40 Are 10,000 registrations a realistic goal for niche new top level domains? So far, most new TLD registries are pricing their domains at a big premium to .com. Will that limit registration numbers? We’re starting to get a better idea of how new top level domain name registries are going to price domain names. It appears many are taking the .TV approach, essentially pricing out any value […] Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 9:44 NameJet reveals top sales from November NameJet’s top sales include many a handful of letter .com domain names. Expired domain name site NameJet released a list today of top sales from November. Here are all of the sales of $5,000 or more: ojr.org $19,100 hase.com $17,851 clio.com $17,200 contributor.com $11,199 sellout.com $10,199 fcloud.com $10,000 iqo.com $8,099 d... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 21:12 Rutgers University and 15 other end user domain name buyers Rutgers University buys a .net and other end user domain name sales. I’m now caught up on end user sales reports due to the Thanksgiving holiday. This report is for sales made by GoDaddy/Afternic two weeks ago. You can see previous end user sales reports here. It’s interesting to see three sales of $9,999, suggesting [... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 10:24 Square Grouper Tiki Bar guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Florida bar filed UDRP despite knowing domain name wasn’t registered in bad faith. Castaways Bar, LLC , owner of Square Grouper Tiki Bar in Jupiter, Florida, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by filing a UDRP against SquareGrouper.com. When the company opened its bar in 2003, SquareGrouper.com was already r... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 9:53 18 end user domain name sales An expensive .co purchase is among Sedo’s big end user domain name sales. Sedo sent out its weekly domain name sales report last week, but due to the U.S. holiday I’m a week behind. Here’s the list, with format domain price – buyer. Yumda.com $1,000 – Yumbda.de, a site about the food and beverage industr... Domain Name Wire - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 12:37 Amazon.com registers domain names for its delivery-by-drone Prime Air service Company registers over 40 domains, but can’t get its hands on some key ones. Will your Amazon.com packages be delivered by drone in the future? That’s the vision of Jeff Bezos. And millions have already watched a video (embedded below) of how Amazon envisions it working. Amazon is pretty thorough with defensive domain nam... Domain Name Wire - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 11:9 Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories for November GoDaddy, Sedo, Frank Schilling’s new TLDs, and a .xxx domain name make the news. Tired of turkey leftovers yet? Here are some domain name leftovers from last month…the top five stories on Domain Name Wire, ranked by order of views. 1. GoDaddy begins accepting pre-registrations for new TLDs for up to $1,200 each – th... Domain Name Wire - Monday, December 2, 2013 - 10:38 Will companies use .BlackFriday domain names? .BlackFriday domain names will soon be available. Will they be useful? It’s Black Friday in the United States, the day that kicks off the holiday shopping season. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry applied to run the .blackfriday top level domain name. It’s possible this domain will be available by Black Friday 2014 desp... Domain Name Wire - Friday, November 29, 2013 - 11:54 Grand Theft Domain Name: Take-Two Interactive loses domain name dispute Grand Theft Auto publisher fails in case to get GTA.tv domain name. Take-Two Interactive, the creator of the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto video game series, has lost a dispute it filed against the domain name GTA.tv. Take-Two has a trademark for GTA, but it was unable to persuade a World Intellectual Property Organization panel... Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 13:19 21 community objections have been decided. So far it’s unpredictable. It’s difficult to predict the outcome of community objections. As of yesterday the International Chamber of Commerce had published 21 community objection decisions. Objectors have won just four of the cases. Time for new top level domain applicants to rejoice? Hardly. Much like string confusion objections, community objection d... Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 10:23 Gold Coast Tourism Corporation guilty of reverse domain name hijacking Tourism group guilty of trying to hijack domain name from Digimedia. Gold Coast Tourism Corporation Ltd. has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP over the domain name GoldCoast.com (pdf). The case was filed against Digimedia, which was represented by John Berryhill. The complainant, a non-profit that promotes ... Domain Name Wire - Monday, November 25, 2013 - 13:41 Andee Hill leaves Escrow.com to start new domain name escrow company Familiar face at domain name conferences is starting her own domain name escrow company. Andee Hill has left Escrow.com to start her own domain name escrow service called EscrowHill.com. Hill has been at Escrow.com, the leading escrow service when it comes to domain names, since 1999. Gregg McNair is backing the new venture, and will... Domain Name Wire - Monday, November 25, 2013 - 11:0 What domain names Panasonic and 20 other end users recently bought Panasonic spends $37,000 on domain name for its ToughPad tablets. GoDaddy and Afternic sold $1.65 million worth of domain names the week before last, including the $37,000 sale of ToughPad.com to Panasonic. Before jumping into the end user sales list, I’ll make a couple observations: 1. It seems lately I’ve been seeing ha... Domain Name Wire - Monday, November 25, 2013 - 9:8 Companies aren’t communities for new TLDs, panelist rules Is Merck a community? It’s a murky argument. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has issued his rulings in three cases involving the Merck brand. In doing so, he has ruled that companies don’t qualify as communities, at least for new TLD community objections. The three cases were filed by Merck KGaA against Merc... Domain Name Wire - Friday, November 22, 2013 - 12:32 Domains that were subject to string confusion objections could be on hold for a while… Board considers if there’s any sort of appeal mechanism to new TLD objections. The results of new TLD string confusion objections handled by International Dispute Resolution Centre were a mess. They were completely unpredictable and results were mostly dependent on who the panelist was, not the merits of the case. As a result, ... Domain Name Wire - Friday, November 22, 2013 - 9:39 Donuts disses Independent Objector. Panelist disses Donuts. .Medical is dead. The independent objector has killed Donuts’ application for .medical. Prof. Alain Pellet, the independent objector for the new top level domain name program, has won (pdf) a community objection against Donuts’ application for .medical. The case got off to a bizarre start, with Donuts calling into question Pellet’s i... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 16:47 CM.com was deleted and is unregistered…but you can’t have it CM.com was deleted this year, but is unavailable for registration. If you pop on over to DomainTools and type in the domain name CM.com, you might be surprised to see that it is not registered: But when you visit your domain name registrar, you’ll find out the domain isn’t available for registration. Despite being registe... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 14:28 Yahoo! sells Sandwich.com for $137,500, and here’s the history behind 9 other domain names it sol... Today Yahoo! sold domain names that it picked up by acquiring Broadcast.com, HotJobs.com, Overture, and many others. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for dot.com nostalgia. Watching the Yahoo! domain name auction on Sedo today brought back memories of flipping through The Industry Standard while updating bids on GoTo.com. (Yeah, I... Domain Name Wire - Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 13:44 Previous 20 | Next 20 Domaining.com - Newsletter - RSS - Affiliate Program - Advertising - Follow us on Twitter or Facebook or Blog - Contact Us  Suggestions - Trends - Registration - Marketplaces - Portfolios Brokers - Drop - Appraisal - Financing - Escrow - Parking Web Hosting - Development - SEO - Forum - Tools - WHOIS Education - Resources - New Extensions - Legal - Events