These .com domain names had been sold at Sedo.com, Fabulous.com, Godaddy.com, Namejet.com from last week Jan 15-21 2012. I just selected only .com domain names sold over $1,000.00 – yolo.com Sold $29,000 – sexonthebeach.com Sold $15,000 – fertilisers.com Sold $9,999 – fertiliser.com Sold $8,100 – clicknloan.com Sold $8,000 – kstyle.com Sold $7,000 – moneytrading.com Sold [...]
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(BBC) – Virgin is attempting to gain control of the domain richardbranson.xxx. The company took the action after an individual unconnected with the company registered the name. “We have a complaint against the owner of richardbranson.xxx,” a Virgin spokesman said. The top-level domain launched last year after considerable debate. Virgin said it was spending an [...]
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NETT – Australian domain names (using ‘.au’) contributed $474.7 million to the economy last financial year, according to a new report from Deloitte Access Economics. Deloitte’s probe found that 60,000 new domain names are being registered each month, compared to just 6,552 back in December 2002. The sector employs 4,330 people in full-time work, and [...]
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NewYork Times – SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Yang has left Yahoo, the stumbling Internet company he co-founded 17 years ago, the company announced Tuesday. In a statement, Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s chairman, said Mr. Yang would immediately give up his board seat at Yahoo and step down from the boards of the Alibaba Group and Yahoo [...]
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These .com domain names had been sold at Sedo.com, Fabulous.com, Godaddy.com, Namejet.com from last week Jan 8-14 2012. I just selected only .com domain names sold over $1,000.00 – newyorkapartmentsforsale.com sold $42,000.00 – 646.com sold $20,000.00 – shoutit.com sold $12,999.00 – restplatzboerse.com sold $12,739.00 – dailysale.com sold $9,000.00 – starred.com sold $7,615.00 – octa.com sold [...]
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(San Francisco Chronicle) – Finding a domain name could be about to get dot-complicated. Starting today, the global body charged with coordinating the Internet’s naming system is accepting applications for what are called generic top-level domains. Familiar extensions like .com, .org and .net could be joined this year by hundreds more – .sport, .clothes, .whatever. [...]
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VietNamNet Bridge – Experts believe that Bkav’s deal would start a new tendency of Vietnamese enterprises spending big money to get back “.com” domain names. A lot of multi-billion dong affairs are expected to be inked in 2012. Why did Vietnamese keep indifferent to international domain names? Nguyen Tu Quang, General Director BKAV, admitted on [...]
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Salesforce.com lost an attempt to gain control of the domain name Forces.com, which it wanted because it has a product called Force.com. The panel that handles disputes about domain names, the National Arbitration Forum, said in its ruling that Salesforce.com doesn’t have rights to the name because the owner, Internet Venture Holdings, registered Forces.com before [...]
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Wow. That’s all I can really say. Who would have ever believed that .XXX would finally be approved AND launched, total domains registrations would continue to grow at 10% year over year, ICANN would be in the process of preparing for the launch of new gTLDs in the face of harsh criticism, and that both [...]
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Moniker(R) and SnapNames(R), both Oversee.net(R) companies, announced the opening of pre-bidding for their Premium and Low & No Reserve Live Domain Name Auction to be held at the DOMAINfest(R) Global Conference on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel, Santa [...]
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