Print PDF Before the 2011 Super Bowl Godaddy had been making a big push in the aftermarket with their premium listings. Unfortunately, for various reasons Godaddy did not include their Premium Listings in search results during the 2011 Super Bowl ad drive. This meant that a user that was driven to the Godaddy site from [...]
Print PDF As first reported by DNN, Keydrive bough Monikter and Snapnames from Oversee.net. The official Press Release was published today and can be found after the jump. KeyDrive S.A. Acquires Moniker and SnapNames from Oversee.net Luxembourg and Los Angeles, Calif. (February 1, 2012). KeyDrive S.A., an internet solutions holding company with subsidiaries providing domain [...]
Print PDF We were are remotely live blogging the auction results of the DomainFest 2012 SnapNames Moniker Auction. One domain name has sold before the auction began, Marriages.com for $36,000. Out of 60 domain names, 10 names had already met their reserve at the start of the auction. Please note that while we do our best [...]
Print PDF According to industry sources, Keydrive S.A. will announce this morning that they have purchased Moniker & Snapnames from Oversee.net. Information about the sale has already been posted on the companies website and was also added to ICANNWiki yesterday. KeyDrive S.A./Luxembourg includes the Key-Systems Group in St. Ingbert/Saarland (Germany), the NameDrive Group (Luxembourg/USA) as [...]
Print PDF Sedo, today announced a new partnership with Go Daddy. Domains that are listed at Sedo with Buy Now prices are now available to Go Daddy customers through the SedoMLS Network. This partnership between two industry-leading companies gives domain investors the ability to distribute their domains at Go Daddy, and end users the chance [...]
Print PDF According to DomainTools.com, a provider of domain name research and whois information, the number of .com domains under management by the registry has eclipsed 100 million domains. In a statement issued earlier today DomainTools claims that through their research they “calculated the current total of domains managed by Verisign to be over 100.2 [...]
Print PDF Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends today. At the time of this post, 53 out of the listed 71 domains have received bids. The auction ends today (Jan 26) at noon Eastern Time. Domain Current Bid Price Range # of Bids received Bid now zimbabwe.com 45,000 USD 25,000 – 49,999 USD 16 Continue channel.com [...]
Print PDF Sedo today announced an exclusive auction of premium .ME domain names. The company has successfully brokered the sale of more than 1,000 .ME domain names, totaling nearly two million U.S. dollars, including such premier names as Business.Me for €40,000, and online meeting platform Join.Me for $45,000. Global brands such as WordPress (wp.me), Facebook [...]
Print PDF As Francois from Domaining.com reports, his blogger newsletter special to celebrate the beginning of 2012 sold 9 domain names to 5 buyers. A 6th buyer did not follow through on his payment for the 10th name. The sales were: GoldBangles.com … $7,000 Winy.com … $3,900 PartyAccessories.com … $3,000 MarketingService.com … $3,000 DesignerPens.com … [...]
Print PDF SOPA and PIPA are the hot topic today but according to Digital Trends writer Andrew Couts PIPA may be closer to passing as time for a vote draws near. PIPA, on the other hand, is still very much alive. It has already passed through committee hearings — a step further than SOPA ever took. And Senate [...]