Domain Sales

According to the Mynic, the administrator of Malaysia’s .my domain, most of the country’s businesses operate websites online. Less than half use a .my domain, however, preferring other extensions like .com instead. Faced with this reality, Mynic is now pushing companies to get on the .my bandwagon. To help lure …

With ICANN slated to begin allowing the creation of new gTLDs next year, everyone wants to get in on the action. Many proposals for new extensions like New York’s .nyc are mainly functional in purpose, but others, such as .eco, are designed to promote a cause. Such is the case …

Do you know what brax is? Neither do I, but apparently it’s important because brax.com sold recently for $80,000 USD, or £48,789. Those in the know will quickly tell you that brax is in fact a 19th century board game. It is also the name of several communes in France. …

A recent domain dispute between Urban Logic Inc. and Urban Logic, Peter Holland has ended in a ruling of reverse domain name hijacking. Peter Holland registered urbanlogic.com in 1999 and used it for his consulting business before turning it into a blog for Vietnam veterans. Urban Logic Inc. owns the …

DropShippers.com just sold in a private sale for $1.5 million, or £909,312. It was bought by Pennsylvania resident Tom Hashem from domainer Richard Gabriel. The sale is the fifth-largest to take place so far this year. Drop shipping is a technique used by retailers to save money in which orders …

Frisky for a bit of domain auction action? Then you’ll want to know that frisky.com just sold for £12,124 ($20,000 USD)– a solid price for a solid adult domain. The buyer has yet to be revealed. SatinSeduction.com also sold for $3,250. The sale of most interest to me, however, is …

American talk show host Oprah Winfrey made news last week when she became one of many celebrities lately to go after cybersquatters. In this case, Winfrey and her broadcasting company, Harpo Entertainment Group, are suing a group of nutritional supplement websites. The sites sell weight and anti-aging products, and feature …

In 2002, the owner of thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com, emailed the Guinness Book of World Records to see if it qualified as a world record for the longest domain. Scott Christie at Guinness sent back a polite but firm rejection: After having examined the information you sent, and given full consideration to your …

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Germany is not only the most populous country in Europe, but is now the operator of the Internet’s most popular ccTLD with more than 13 million registrations on its .de domain. For years Germany held the number one spot, but recently lost its position to China’s .cn extension, which experienced …