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VeriSign, a company which provides .com and .net registration services to all registrars, has announced that it will increase .com prices by 7% and .net by 10%. Because the prices paid by registrars will go up, the added cost will be passed on to you and me. The new prices …
Read More »Go Daddy hit with class auction lawsuits over PPC ads
Thought you were having a bad day? Disgruntled domain owners filed class action lawsuits against Go Daddy in Arizona and Arkansas today over the PPC ads it displays on customers’ domains. These advertisements appear only when the domain is parked at Go Daddy or no name servers have been set …
Read More »Crayon.com sells for $50,000
Ending the week on a good note, Crayon.com sold at auction for $50,000 USD. Given the huge market for crayons and art supplies, this name was a steal. Another sale of note is ipad.de for €16,555. Whoever bought this name is sure to run into trouble with Apple. Two-letter name …
Read More »Firm will buy Pirate Bay domain for $10 million
Business Marketing Services has announced plans to buy ThePirateBay.org for $10 million. The sale will only include the bittorrent website’s domain, not the website or user database. Whether or not the company actually has the money to buy the name is questionable. At the time of its 2009 end-of-year report …
Read More »ICANN COO Doug Brent resigns
ICANN COO Doug Brent published a post on the organisation’s blog yesterday announcing his resignation. Those hoping to hear juicy details about a fierce internal battle at ICANN will be sourly disappointed, however, as Brent is leaving his post for purely personal reasons: While my engagement in the work of …
Read More »Milan 2010 T.R.A.F.F.I.C: the .it domain
At the 2010 Milan T.R.A.F.F.I.C event the first conferences focus on the domain market of Italy, the host country for this first event. Andrea Marchi from Register.it started discussions on the history of the .it domain, discussing old style of registrations and a new model of synchronous registration. Statistics confirm …
Read More »Milan 2010 T.R.A.F.F.I.C event: .eu auctions day 1
The opening day of the Milan 2010 T.R.A.F.F.I.C event saw an introduction from Rick Latona about the European domain market, including an interesting point on the .cn domain which dominates the internet world in Europe. The event is full of international representatives from the domain industry, including many professionals from …
Read More »Kurds to apply for gTLD
Although the Kurdish people do not have their own nation, they number 35-million worldwide. It makes sense then that a group of Kurds has plans to apply for a Kurdish gTLD— either .kur or .kurd. The majority of Kurds live in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. The push for the gTLD …
Read More »Software.de sells for €235025
Surpassing all other sales so far this week is software.de, which sold at auction for €235,025 (312,278 USD). Software is the same word in both English and German, so I think this domain has a lot of multinational potential. More than half of Europeans speak either German or English. Other …
Read More »Chanel sweeps up five domains in dispute
French fashion house Chanel has won a dispute filed with the WIPO covering five domains: chanelbagsale.com, chanelbageshop.com, chanelhandbags.org, chanel-sale.com, and chanelsale.net. Naturally, the company contended that the names violated its trademark and were being used in bad faith. The registrant failed to respond to these allegations. Personally, I don’t even …
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