The government of Switzerland is trying to get its hands on three domain names owned by a Swiss citizen. The government claims to have a right to three specific URLs - www.schweiz.ch, www.suisse.ch and www.svizzera.ch (all translate to the country's ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Swiss government claims domains
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VoIPService.com going, going…
· Domain SalesJust a day after after SatellitePhone.com grabbed a $50k bid on Afternic, VoIPService.com has met its reserve of $25,000. The domain will sell to the highest bidder within the next 7 days. This domain had been in Afternic's Showcase Domains section ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Afternic sale for $50,000 pending
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsSatellitePhone.com has met its $50,000 reserve on Afternic. With just under 6 days remaining, SatellitePhone.com is about to sell at domain exchange Afternic. The domain has a "buy now" price of $90,000. The market for satellite phones is booming. ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Domain Name Wire cracks top 100,000
· UncategorizedDomain Name Wire is now one of the top 100,000 sites on the web, according to Alexa. To some sites it's no big deal, and I hope the site keeps climbing, but Domain Name Wire has finally broken into the "5 digit" range in Alexa's web rankings. At the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
eNom ups Club Drop prices again
· Expired DomainseNom's Club Drop service increased its minimum bid again. It seems like if eNom didn't increase its expired domain prices a couple times a year we'd start to worry if they were OK. Today they announced that the mininum bid for all domains will ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Wall Street Journal article on Drop Catching
· Expired DomainsThe Wall Street Journal published a new article about domain names today. In section B page 1 of today's Wall Street Journal is an article titled "Drop Catchers Buy and Sell Web Names Others Let Slip". I have yet to find a free online version of this ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Survey: Do not hand control of internet to international body
· Policy & LawOnly 38% of respondents to our survey approve of transferring control of the internet and domain name system to an international body. [Editors note: this is the ninth in a series of posts with results from the 2006 Domain Name Wire survey. The ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Domain mid-market continues to thrive
· Domain SalesSales of domains in the $2k-$10k range continue to explode. It's an area of the domain name aftermarket that I refer to as the mid-market: domains that sell for a couple grand but don't quite hit 5-figures. Although you read about all of the big 5 and ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Lettuce.com escapes my bid
· Domain SalesLettuce.com sold for $4,002 on TDNAM, much to my disappointment. An auction for Lettuce.com ended Thursday at $4,002 on GoDaddy's TDNAM. Why does this disappoint me? Because I wanted to win the auction! Thursday evening I was perusing TDNAM and ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Domain Roundtable discount code and information
· ServicesOne of the domain industry's most important conferences, Domain Roundtable, is just a couple months away. The Domain Roundtable conference is organized by Name Intelligence, known for running the Whois.sc service. Details Dates: April 19-21, ... Continue Reading2 Comments
