Perhaps letting domain registrars do as they please is OK. For the 2009 Domain Name Wire Survey I added a new option for the most important factors when selecting a domain registrar: what they do with expired domains. With all the commotion over ... Continue Reading12 Comments
Tucows Signs Up To $1.8M Expired Domain Name Deal
· Expired DomainsDomain name registrar signs deal to sell expired domain names to third party. This is a follow-up to Domain Name Wire's report this morning about Tucows (AMEX: TCX) selling a $1 million portfolio of domain names and entering into an agreement to sell ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Tucows Inks Expired Domains Deal with NameJet
· Expired DomainsNameJet now has three of top four domain registrars on its platform. Starting today, NameJet is the exclusive sales channel for domain names expiring from domain name registrar Tucows (AMEX: TCX). NameJet is now the exclusive provider of inventory ... Continue Reading10 Comments
SnapNames Awarded Domain Backordering Patent
· Expired DomainsCompany awarded divisional patent covering business of expired domains and domain monitoring. Expired domain name service SnapNames, a subsidiary of Oversee.net, has been awarded U.S. Patent number 7,472,160, covering a broad array of expired domain ... Continue Reading15 Comments
FreshDrop Analyzes the Numbers on Expired Domains
· Expired DomainsService helps you find good expiring domains. Expired domain catchers sift through reams of data to find the best expiring domains. Over the past couple months I've been test driving what may be the best data source for finding high quality expiring ... Continue Reading12 Comments
GoDaddy Changes Expired Domain Pricing
· Expired DomainsIn response to Standard Tactics coverage, GoDaddy has changed starting bids on TDNAM auctions. Last week I mentioned that GoDaddy was making a change to its TDNAM auctions based on some of my commentary on Standard Tactics. In my commentary I had ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Domaining.com Launching Expiring Domain Liquidation Service
· Expired DomainsPopular site offers way to liquidate domain names you no longer want. Last month I wrote about how I was trimming some unwanted domain names from my portfolio. A couple people emailed to ask which domains so they could buy them from me cheap. That's ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Afilias Accidentally Deletes .Info Domains from RGP
· Expired DomainsRegistry for .info takes back domains mistakenly dropped. .Info registry Afilias accidentally deleted some of the domain names that were in the redemption grace period this past weekend. Some of the domains were snapped up by new registrants and from ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Deadbeat Bidder at NameJet? Just Pay Ten Bucks.
· Expired DomainsAre expired domain auction services doing enough to deal with deadbeat bidders? Expired domain auctions can get very competitive. But often times the winning bidder never makes the payment, sending the domain back to auction and wasting everyone's ... Continue Reading11 Comments
SnapNames Down Again
· Expired DomainsExpired domain and domain auction platform hit by outage. Domain name auction site SnapNames is unavailable again, marking at least the 4th major outage this summer. A notice on the company's web site for at least the past hour reads "The SnapNames ... Continue Reading9 Comments