Archive for October, 2007

Dollar Drops, Domain Names Rise - Domain Name Wire

Dollar Drops, Domain Names RiseDomain Name Wire, TX -2 hours agoI first wrote about how the “cheap” US dollar was affecting domain name prices back in April 2005. I wrote about it again in February of this year. …

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“The Next Great American Band’s” Domainer Connection

If you are a DomainSponsor.com publisher partner, you might know Joe Higgins (far right of pic). He’s an account rep for the domain monetization company. Joe also is the drummer for a band, The Likes of You. The Los Angeles-based band made it through the Fox reality show “The Next Great American Band”. […]

DOC renews .US contract with Neustar

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the renewal of Neustar’s contract to manage the .US registry. The .US domain is the country code top-level domain for the United States (usTLD), but has always played second-fiddle to the more popular .com extension.The contract involves a three-year agreement with two one-year […]

Group of Internet Mavericks Lasso Domain Cowboys.com

A group of internet domain name investors led by Eric Rice apparently has banded together to make the winning bid to acquire the domain name Cowboys.com . The domain name was placed back up for auction in the Moniker.com silent auction after the representatives from the Dallas Cowboys football team reportedly backed out of […]

Unofficial Moniker Silent Auction Results

The Moniker.com TRAFFIC silent domain auction ended earlier today with 437 domains priced at over $2m sold. A list of all domains and prices published on the next page. The silent auction follows the live domain auction event held last week where $7.8 million dollars of domains were sold. The top […]

GoDaddy Schedules 3 Day Auction - HostingTech.com

GoDaddy Schedules 3 Day AuctionHostingTech.com, KS -5 hours agoBidding starts at the seller's reserve price, so a single bid can take the domain name. The auction is open to the public. Qualifying to bid in the online …

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Snapnames to provide themed live auction at DomainFest Global

Snapnames, recently acquired by Oversee.net, will become a live domain auction player. As per today’s press release, they will debut SnapNames Live, a live auction system for premium domains, at DOMAINfest Global’s Hollywood, California event in January 2008. The Domainfest event is organized by Domainsponsor, which also is owned by Oversee.net.In partnership with DomainSponsor, the […]

NameMedia buys photo.net, launches gardens.com

NameMedia  (parent company of buydomains.com) announced that they have purchased photo.net, which is to work in tandem with their photography.com website. This continuous their development efforts and certainly shows that they are willing to buy existing sites and combine them with their premium domain names.[photo.net is] a community site for photography enthusiasts with more than […]

Will overstock.com own o.com?

After much lobbying by overstock.com (amongst others) ICANN has now started a comment period in order to find the best way to make the remaining single letter/digit domains available in gTLDs.To be considered by ICANN, ideas on potential allocation methods should be submitted no later than 23:59 UTC, 15 November 2007 to allocationmethods@icann.org. Comments may […]

Dallas Cowboys Fumble Cowboys.com Deal

Rumors are circulating that the sale for the domain name Cowboys.com will not be moving forward. The domain name brought in a $275,000 bid from a phone-in bidder at the recent TRAFFIC domain live auction in Hollywood, Florida. The bidder had earlier been confirmed to be a representative from the Dallas Cowboys NFL team. […]