As reported earlier, the Australian registrar Melbourne IT has acquired the Verisign Digital Brand Management Services unit for $50 Million USD. Verisign’s Digital Brand Management Services manages the domains for about 2,000 corporate client such as Microsoft.
According to Versign, “the Digital Brand Manager enables companies to manage their entire domain name portfolios – including […]
A huge victory for MySpace.com has been overturned as the social networking giant is being forced to hand back control of MySpace.co.uk to the previous owner, Total Web Solutions (TWS).
In January, MySpace.com won an arbitration proceeding against TWS for the MySpace.co.uk domain name after arguing TWS was using the site to serve MySpace related ads. […]
I'm really interested in hearing different people's reaction to domain name conferences. Each person has their own reasons for going, from partying to the small hours of the morning or just to hang, for me, I go to conduct business.
A classic example was the recent Domain Round Table (components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Domain_Roundtable)…
Report: RuTube to be Sold for $15M « NewTeeVee
“RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service. It is currently visited by 300,000 people daily and plays over 35 million videos every month. Over 4 million unique users visit it every month (TNS Gallup Media).
It currently transmits several dozen TV and radio channels online, and also gives its users the chance to create video-blogs and personal virtual channels.”- wikipedia.com/
Linked Article Source: NewTeeVee
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According to several sources the Australian Registrar Melbourne IT has purchased the Verisign Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) unit for $50 Million USD. Verisign DBMS is a a domain registration and brand monitoring service mostly used by large corporations, such as Microsoft.
[via TechCrunch]
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We are exclusively listing Harmony.com for sale. It is being offered at a $5 Million dollar reserve price. We will consider all creditable offers for the next two weeks. If you would like to place a bid, please contact me at “harmony [at] domaintools.com”. This is a fantastic generic domain with a lot of uses. […]
And again Sedo was so kind to share selected domain sales of the week up to April 28th, 2008 with us.
.com Sales
sexkontakt.com 40,000 EUR (Sex Contact in German)
mno.com 18,250 USD
bestform.com 10,000 USD
foreclosurealert.com 10,000 USD
sociétés.com 8,404 EUR (companies in French)
ecologique.com 6,100 EUR
fastpizzapizza.com 5,100 USD
hearthrug.com 5,000 USD
unitedinvestors.com 4,760 USD
armee.com 4,500 EUR (Army in Germany)
onlinefraud.com 4,100 USD
economicgrowth.com 4,100 USD
sopal.com 4,000 USD
oekostrom.com 3,800 EUR (eco engery/power in German)
publicprofile.com 3,750 USD
jobspedia.com 3,600 EUR
opensourcesoft.com 3,500 USD
sportnow.com 3,000 USD
annonceverte.com 2,722 EUR
weareheroes.com 2,500 USD
servicemix.com […]
Melbrourne IT just announced to me they purchased the Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) division from Verisign. This makes it clear that VeriSign is going back to focusing on the more profitable registry business. I talked with William Roper (CEO of Verisign) less then a year ago and he indicated that a leaner more […]
Alternative domain parking provider WhyPark announced that it has received funding from Angel Investor Alan Macomber. According to Domain Name Wire, the investment is for amount of $230,000. The funds are to be used for an enhancement project that is already under way. The investor is one of the first clients of the company, which […]
A Spanish man is holding several government domain names for ransom until the Prime Minister agrees to correct the country’s “inequalities” in water supply and transfer water to all of the country’s drought stricken regions.
Following his recent re-election as Spain’s Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero announced the creation of four new ministries websites. Unfortunately, […]