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Spill Group announces acquisition of Games.co.uk
"Hilversum, 14 December 2007. Today, Spill Group announced that it has purchased the domain name Games.co.uk. This portal is a welcome addition to the portfolio, which includes amongst others, Juegos.com, Jeux.fr, GamesGames.com, Spelletjes.nl and Gioco.it.
Earlier this year, Spill Group also announced the intention to acquire other game companies, portals and […]
Police have confirmed that a man at the centre of an investigation into the website TV-Links.co.uk was arrested under section 92 of the Trade Mark Act, "on suspicion of supplying property with a registered trademark, without permission".
TV-Links.co.uk was a website that contained a list of television programs , and links to video streaming sites such […]
In an interesting NamePros thread the CEO of NameCheap states they do not sell any customer search data, and thus any leaks would have to be coming from ‘upstream’ ie. Verisign.
Richard Kirkendall states "There are rumors that this information is being obtained at and sold directly at the verisign registry which bypasses all and any […]
Ebay is often a sales venue for domain names, usually the lesser quality names with high prices. We have recently scoured completed listings for some .CO.UK sales and came up with the following data:
LondonEscorts.co.uk £3500
Clix.co.uk £450
IPHONE-OUTLET.CO.UK £100
www.Gone-In-60-Seconds.Co.Uk £29.99
BuyThisOnEbay.co.uk £26
spellcasters.co.uk £15
kinkywomen.co.uk £15
commercialise.co.uk £10 (Reserve not met so not sold)
tixs.co.uk £9.99
yardwork.co.uk £9.99
HandMadeWeddingStationary.co.uk £1.20
DiscountProject.Co.Uk £0.99
shanessareilly.co.uk £0.30
It will be […]
Back in December 2006 Jordan Holt, a well known .UK dropcatcher, posted on Acorndomains explaining a large flaw in the way Sedo handles login information. A day later a Sedo representative replied saying that they were aware of it and that:
"We will be switching to Cookie sessions in the near future to do away with […]
The registration of mcallen.com has become quite popular on various domain forums due to its amazing WHOIS information:
Domain Name: mcallen.com
Created on…………..: Sun, Jan 01, 1950
Expires on…………..: Tue, Apr 13, 2010
Record last updated on..: Fri, Mar 23, 2007
Obviously this is an error, however it needs seeing to be believed!
Over on the esteemed A4U forums a representative of Laura Ashley has discovered that an affiliate has registered a typo of their domain name (missing an ‘a’) and is profiting by routing the traffic generated through their affiliate program. The annoyed affiliate manager wants the domain ‘back’ and wants to keep the traffic.
User ‘drivetowin’ makes […]
In the .UK namespace there is only one king, and that is .CO.UK . Everyone in the United Kingdom knows it, most use it and it is all but too late to get a good one. Enter .ORG.UK .
Going by Nominet’s own statistics the historic rate of .ORG.UK registrations was verging on 5% of its […]
After looking at two weeks days worth of dropcatching data we decided to see who were the currently active catchers, and if there is anything worth catching in .uk . A representative data sample was used and straightforwardly placed into a graph displaying the percentages:
The 29 other tags each registered under 1% of domains.
The BOWLER […]
From Lesley Cowley, Chief Executive of Nominet
Welcome to our third edition of Nominet News for 2007.
The months since our previous edition have been extremely busy, exciting and challenging in equal measure.
At the beginning of June we released our Online Services for registrars and registrants. This major project enables customers to manage their accounts online […]