In April, we launched the Registrant Alert service. This is an extremely valuable service. It can save tons in time and money. Jay points to an example of the service in action: alerting him when he was about to lose a domain due to expiration. Another scenario that can be far […]
Ten Emerging Beliefs and the Opportunity They Present
Domain conferences share a commonality during which, over time (turbulent times no less), certain conventional wisdoms begin to emerge as the industry matures and infrastructure solidifies. In other words, the more the industry coalesces and becomes viable and full, the more common beliefs come into play and […]
Imagine the following scenario: A registrant owns a .NET version of your .COM domain and decides to list it with SnapNames. However he mistypes the domain by entering the .COM version in the spreadsheet he sends to his account manager. The account manager then proceeds to move the .COM version of the domain, which is […]
We periodically introduce new software releases as part of our rolling program of continuous service improvement. These releases almost always involve the modification of objects within our database. During yesterdays release an object in the registry database that DAC and WHOIS rely on underwent a change that rendered those services unavailable for approximately 12 minutes.We do test our software releases rigorously prior to deploying them, but there are many dependencies within the database. Unfortunately, this time we missed the fact that the changes made during the release would affect DAC and WHOIS. As a result of this outage we are introducing changes that will alert us to these dependencies during the development phase.We apologise for the inconvenience caused by the interruption to service yesterday.
After working with Sedo for over six years in various senior roles, Matt Bentley, Sedo’s Chief Strategy Officer, will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.
“It has been an incredibly rewarding experience to participate in Sedo’s worldwide growth and witness the company’s emergence as a dominant player in the market,” said Bentley. “I’m definitely […]
Selected Sedo sales for the week up to July 27th, 2008 after the jump.
Domain name
Type
Price
Currency
Translation
.COMs
insuranceleads.com
50000
USD
mutuelle.com
23600
EUR
Mutual in French
rewardsdirect.com
17500
USD
converttube.com
website
16350
EUR
purecasino.com
13000
USD
umx.com
10100
USD
plume.com
10000
EUR
gujam.com
website
10000
EUR
regtool.com
10000
USD
onlinesavingsaccount.com
9988
USD
ljl.com
9300
USD
usb-sticks.com
7777
EUR
nevermore.com
7500
USD
pinz.com
7000
USD
rlu.com
6600
EUR
iquotes.com
6500
EUR
zqx.com
6100
USD
sonicunion.com
6000
USD
urbanhomesteading.com
5700
USD
gameplayer.com
5600
USD
vueloscharter.com
4900
EUR
russianyellowpages.com
4745
USD
eyeinfo.com
4540
USD
compraryvender.com
4500
EUR
forexpf.com
4500
USD
bingodaily.com
4500
USD
thebrowser.com
4250
USD
kredieten.com
4000
USD
Credits in Dutch
smartarm.com
3500
USD
peluche.com
3050
EUR
Fluffy in French
bellmail.com
3000
USD
farbetter.com
3000
USD
purepath.com
3000
EUR
doorstomanual.com
3000
EUR
bipper.com
3000
EUR
ipodrip.com
3000
USD
quickcreditscore.com
2900
USD
k-dow.com
2750
EUR
pckids.com
2540
USD
gasandmore.com
2500
USD
proforex.com
2500
USD
chocolatecoffee.com
2500
USD
cloudsaas.com
2250
USD
stophiding.com
2200
USD
readyrecipes.com
website
2050
USD
hospedajeweb.com
2000
USD
Web providers in Spanish
fatdeals.com
2000
USD
cmovie.com
2000
USD
taleofdespereauxmovie.com
2000
USD
ccTLDs
gmx.ca
20000
EUR
flirtexpress.de
website
13000
EUR
petrolprices.co.uk
8600
GBP
snows.co.uk
5500
GBP
farbtoner.de
5100
EUR
Color toner in German
domain.es
4000
USD
grundstücksbörse.de
3500
EUR
Property market in German
adcommerce.de
3300
EUR
netklix.de
3000
EUR
firstchoiceski.co.uk
3000
GBP
fahrzeugaufbereitung.de
2750
EUR
Vehicle preparation/restoration in German
podcast.it
2500
EUR
fotoservice.be
2250
EUR
sexe-gratuit.fr
2000
EUR
Free sex in French
findex.co.uk
1500
USD
fodbold.nu
1500
USD
pricecuts.co.uk
1400
GBP
casinoportalen.es
1400
EUR
Casino portal in Spanish
lenkrad.de
1350
EUR
Steering wheel in German
medicalneglect.co.uk
1173
USD
sennheiser.lu
1100
EUR
kunstschnee.de
1050
EUR
Artificial Snow in German
croupier.fr
1000
EUR
emploi-paris.fr
1000
EUR
Paris employment in French
domesticcleaning.co.uk
1000
GBP
aufwind.ch
website
999
EUR
Upswing in German
ostfriesland-ferienwohnungen.de
950
EUR
East Frisia vacation homes in German
kunsteis.de
800
EUR
Artificial […]
We apologise for an unplanned outage on the WHOIS between 0857 and 0909 today, Tuesday 29 July 2008. This occurred during a previously announced upgrade to our systems which provides new functionality, particularly for the DRS.We did test this new software release thoroughly before the upgrade, but did not expect any downtime on the WHOIS or DAC. We will investigate the cause of this outage and report our results when we find them.
According to an email sent to Resellers, Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) has now re-branded their wholesale services to use the old OpenSRS (SRS = Shared Registrar System). The new site resides under the OpenSRS.com domain, whereas the original site used to be hosted under OpenSRS.org.
The change will also be announced at HostingCon, which is currently being […]
I have been playing with Google Ad Planner for about a week now and it is by far the best third party metrics tool out there. I can now directly query Google for how popular a website is and how many users they have. I have found that if a website doesn’t have more then […]