ICANN advertises new TLDs in The Economist (Stephan van Gelder)
Bido.com to restart auctions on February 2nd, 2009 (Conceptualist)
ICANN releases 2008 report
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Pool.com has just added the .DE ccTLD to their backorder services. Their site currently lists about 1,600 .de domains that will be expiring as of January 23rd.
It appears that the list only contains names that are in “TRANSIT” state at this point, which means that the registrar has handed the domains back to the registry […]
Slate: Is cybersquatting against the law?
MotorAuthority: Ford goes against sites using it’s name
As mentioned in an ongoing radio conversation with Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire on Radio GoDaddy, Bob Parsons, CEO of GoDaddy announced that he has taken the entire portfolio of 33,000 names owned under the Standard Tactics company (see the original story on DNW) and has listed these for sale on TDNAM with a starting price […]
According to Golem (German) Lycos has sold the domain registrar United Domains to United Internet for about 34 million Euros (appx. 45 million USD) in cash. 7 million Euro will be held in escrow for any potential liabilities. The final purchase price will be determined once the purchaser posts their final results for 2008. […]
As reported by the Dallas News, the web development company Yuma Solutions let GeorgeWBushLibrary.com expire and then re-purchased it for $35,000 USD. Another company, “Illuminati Karate” bought the name when it expired. It seems that the seller was very lucky in this case that the buyer did not file a UDRP or even sued them. […]
Alexa now provides a free CSV download of their top 1,000,000 sites world wide, updated daily. The company used to charge $2,500 for access to this list via Amazon Web Services.
[via Randolf Jorberg (German)]
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As unconvered by Domain Name Wire, Godaddy has joined the ranks of registrars that participate in the participate in Domain Warehousing practices. Domain Warehousing means the practise where a registrar keeps domains for themselves after the original registrant fails to renew the domain. Tucows, one of the registrars that is more open about following this […]
As previously announced, Sedo’s premium numeric domain auction has just opened for bidding. The auction ends on December 4th and features the following domain names:
024.org
10029.com
13.net
1500000.com
20032.com
25.com
40.com
44.ca
500.net
6801.com
70.com
79.net
88.com
94.com
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Saws.com , Medicinas.com , Coed.com - All For Sale at Aftermarket.com Online Domain Auction November 20th . Click here to register for the auction.
Oversee.net has just launched a new fixed priced domain market place: DNEX.com. The site looks like a relauched version of their previous DomainCargo site where the company listed domains from their own portfolio. DNEX (Domain Name EXchange) currently lists over 3,000 COM, NET & ORG domains at prices ranging from $59 to $8,000 USD, payment […]