Go Daddy set to hit another milestone. [Update: Go Daddy hit the milestone earlier today.] About six months after crossing the 30 million domain name mark, The Go Daddy Group is set to surpass 40 million domains under management, most likely on ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Archives for March 9, 2010
.Org Eyes Leadership Role in IDN Top Level Domain Names
· Policy & Law.Org registry PIR wants to bring best practices to IDN top level domain names. One of the big questions facing registries of existing top level domain names is how they should pursue Internationalized Domain Name "equivalents" of their domain names ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Guagua.com Sells for $100k, Pepe.com Sells Again
· Domain SalesGuagua.com hits six figures, Domaining.com owner scores nice sale. Sedo has sold the domain name Guagua.com for $100,000. Guagua has a number of different meanings, including being the name of a language and a municipality in the Phillipines. The ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Happy 5th Birthday, Domain Name Wire
· UncategorizedDomain Name Wire started publishing five years ago today. On March 9, 2005, I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire, reporting on the sale of Local.com for $700,000. 3,141 posts later, Domain Name Wire is running as strong as ever. If you're ... Continue Reading35 Comments
Scenes from ICANN Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya
· Policy & LawICANN meeting in Nairobi running well, report attendees. With all of the hype around security and possible disruptions, those in attendance at ICANN's meeting in Nairobi say all is going well. Attorney John Berryhill writes "The summit and the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Sex.com Domain Name In Default for Over a Year
· Domain SalesDebtors behind on bills for the past year. With Sex.com heading to the auction block, there's a been a lot of talk about what went wrong with the current owner, Escom LLC. According to a Reuters article, Escom has been in default on its loan for over ... Continue Reading9 Comments