Big .co sale finally completed; landrush auctions begin. e.Co, which was auctioned for $81,000 in a charity auction in June, has finally changed hands. Although the whois for the domain name still shows CO Internet, the buyer has informed me that the ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Archives for August 2010
FTC Settles with Con Artists in Domain Name Renewal Scam
· Policy & LawFTC settles lawsuit over domain name renewal scam. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has settled with a group in Canada that it says posed as domain name registrars and duped thousands of people and companies into paying bogus bills by leading them to ... Continue Reading13 Comments
Demand Media S-1 Discloses Details of NameJet Deals with Tucows, Others
· Expired DomainsIPO filing discloses financial deals for expired domain names. Demand Media's S-1 filing last Friday revealed a bit about the company's expired domain deals, although it doesn't refer to its partners directly by name. NameJet has deals with Network ... Continue Reading12 Comments
Are you going to DOMAINfest NYC Next Week?
· ServicesDOMAINfest gears up for Manhattan. Are you heading to DOMAINfest in New York City next week? If so, leave a comment on this post to help with networking. The "Power Networking Day" will take place August 18 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown ... Continue Reading9 Comments
NameDrive’s NDX Market Gears Up for Auction of 3 Character ccTLDs
· Domain SalesDomain marketplace gets ready for another three character auction. Fresh on the heels of a three character .eu domain name auction in which all 771 domain names sold, NameDrive's NDX Market is getting ready for a follow on auction. Starting ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Peace and Love, But No Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
· Policy & LawCompany fails to get generic PeaceandLove.com domain name. GS Enterprises LLC has failed in an attempt to get the generic domain name PeaceAndLove.com through UDRP. But the panelist's line of thinking, and failure to consider reverse domain name ... Continue Reading4 Comments
eNom Uses Domain Lookups to Decide What to Register for Itself
· Domain RegistrarsLooking up potential domains at eNom? The company uses that data in many ways. [UPDATED] Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt has referred to the data from eNom and its value to the company before, but its newly filed S-1 explains the value succinctly. ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Demand Media Files to Go Public – Demand By the Numbers
· ServicesDemand Media files for IPO, with Goldman the lead banker. Demand Media, the parent company of eNom, has filed to go public and raise up to $125 million. I'm reading through the S-1 as we speak, so this article will expand. Here are some of the ... Continue Reading10 Comments
.Co Domain Tops 400,000 Registrations
· UncategorizedAnother milestone. What's next? It has taken .co just two and a half weeks to hit a big milestone: today the .co domain name surpassed 400,000 domain name registrations according to the ticker on its web site. Although the rate of registrations ... Continue Reading15 Comments
Vertro Reports Earnings Including $285k from Sale of ScreenSavers.com
· Domain SalesSuccessor to FindWhat unloads domain name. Vertro (VTRO) reported second quarter results yesterday, and that included a gain of about $285,000 from the sale of a domain name. Domainers probably know Vertro as the successor of FindWhat. After doing ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment