eNom´s Club Drop increase it´s minimum bid - again
Yesterday eNom announced that the mininum bid for all expired domain auctions will increase to $30.
Add comment February 23rd, 2006
Archive for February, 2006
All time high at Snapnames
A new record for expired domain name auction has been reported by Snapnames. Yesterday Jasmin.com recieved a new owner after a betting fight that ended at the sum of $310,250, and broke the existing all-time expired domain name auction record (A1.com at $260,250).
Domains that were caught during drops in 2005:
A1.com - $260,250
Bogota.com - $159,500
MyPremiumCard.com - $136,250
Voyuer.com - $112,100
Innovations.com - $108,000
Add comment February 22nd, 2006
NetNames launch a combine trademark and domain check
NetNames International Ltd. has launched a search service which check both trademark and domain availability. The service is free of change, but if there is a potential conflict, details of the trademark holder will be available from £19 per keyword.
Add comment February 19th, 2006
Reported Domain Name Sales - Jan/Feb 2006
Domain name |
Price |
Broker |
| EnergyWatch.co.uk | $23,830 | Private Sale |
| BB.org | $20,000 | Private Sale |
| Manufacture.com | $20,000 | Private Sale |
| BS.net |
$15,100 | eBay.com |
| Arbeitsmarkt.de | $14,293 | Sedo.com |
| Reloj.com | $14,250 | SnapNames.com |
| WebBlog.com | $14,055 | Sedo.com |
| Apple.org | $13,850 | SnapNames.com |
| Babyfaces.com | $12,500 | Sedo.com |
| eCoupons.co.uk | $11,334 | Sedo.com |
| KartRacing.com | $9,333 | SnapNames.com |
| TravelRes.co.uk | $8,725 | Sedo.com |
| PokerGenie.co.uk | $8,725 | Sedo.com |
| TPW.org | $8,650 | Afternic.com |
| Methane.com | $8,500 | Sedo.com |
| FMBank.net | $8,100 | SnapNames.com |
| ChessTips.com | $8,088 | SnapNames.com |
| KFZ.at | $7,742 | Sedo.com |
| OG.org | $7,600 | SnapNames.com |
| CharlesSchwabb.com | $7,600 | SnapNames.com |
| NFLJersey.com | $6,721 | SnapNames.com |
| abiz.com | $5,105 | TDNAM.com |
| e-jobs.com | $4,000 | Afternic.com |
| homevids.com | $3,688 | Afternic.com |
| searchhealth.com | $3,388 | Afternic.com |
| t-m.com | $2,105 | TDNAM.com |
Source: Afternic.com, DNJournal.com, DomainNameWire.com and TDNAM.com
Add comment February 18th, 2006
The battle of Sex.com becomes a book
Kieren McCarthy, a freelance journalist, has signed a publishing contract for a book on the continuing saga of sex.com.
Add comment February 10th, 2006
Domain Roundtable Conference
The Domain Roundtable conference is organized by Name Intelligence, Inc. the creator of Whois Source. The conference is about domains, and how domain names and the surrounding industries are working together to grow opportunity and increase trust and integrity in the process. The conference will take place April 19 - 21, 2006 at The Westin Hotel in Bellevue, Washington.
Domain Roundtable will be featuring ICANN Chairman/Google Chief Internet Evangelist and co-designer of the original TCP/IP protocols of the Internet, Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, as a keynote speaker. His speech will elaborate on the framework of the domain name market while identifying the challenges of expanding the top-level domain space. In addition, he will offer some survival tips for registrants, registrars and registries on understanding the state of their domain portfolios.
Add comment February 8th, 2006
Skype affiliate can keep Skyp.com
Benjamin Decraene from Belgium is the owner of the domain name skyp.com, and uses the domain name to redirect visitors to skype.com. WIPO denied skype.com complaint. The WIPO expert took into account the fact that the respondent is an affiliate of the complainant:
“After reviewing all of the proof provided by the Complainant and the Respondent, the Panel finds it established that the Respondent has been allowed – on several occasions – to insert a hyperlink on his website to the Complainant’s website within the scope of different affiliation programs. The fact that an announcer expressly accepts – as in this case – that an affiliate becomes part of an affiliation program hyperlinking to the announcer’s website may, according to this Panel, be considered as an authorization/permission to use the Domain Name. The Complainant, by accepting the Respondent as an affiliate, could perhaps be regarded as having recognized the rights and/or legitimate interests of the Respondent in the Domain Name.”
2 comments February 7th, 2006
Tucows launches domain name auction
“The secondary market for domains represents a new source of revenue for Tucows and our channel of service providers,” said Elliot Noss, President and CEO Tucows Inc. “Our strategy is to create a suite of services specifically designed to harness the reach of our channel and give service providers the information and tools they need to take advantage of this growing business.”
Domain Name Auction is a white-labeled service. Service providers can offer potential new registrants the ability to bid on expiring domains via links from the service provider’s website. The first auctions are expected to begin February 13, 2006. Buyers of domain names will be able to find out information on how to participate in the auctions at www.tucowsauctions.com. Registrants maintain their right to renew and keep their domain throughout the auction process. Tucows’ Parked Pages service will generate revenue from pay-per-click advertising for both expired and unexpired domain names. This revenue will be shared with service providers.
Tucows’ Domain Name Auction and Parked Pages services are being offered in beta to existing members of the company’s service provider channel. During the beta period, service providers are being asked to provide feedback on the business policies and tools associated with the services.”
Add comment February 6th, 2006
Irish government plans to regulate .IE
“The Irish Department of Communications is planning to put in place a regulatory framework for the IE domain. This is a good and bad - bad because regulation may well impose an administrative and cost burden, but good because it will spur reform of the Registry (a private company, with self-selected directors) which is unwilling to reform itself from within.”
Add comment February 5th, 2006
No WHOIS privacy protection on .us domain names
The NTIA (United States Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration) requires all .us domain names to no longer have any form of WHOIS privacy protection.
Add comment February 5th, 2006