CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release "the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering." According to the press release Instra in the year to June 30 posted … [Read more...]
Uniregistry Put Premium New gTLD’s Domains In Auction @ No Reserve
Frank Schilling's Uniregistry has put many premium new gTLD's, at no reserve, in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon. Unlike many new gTLD's, all of these domain names have normal renewal fees. None of these domain names have been offered to the pubic before and include single letter and numbered domains like 8.Link, e.gift, and b.sexy, as well as two letter words like … [Read more...]
My Sale to Godaddy
By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic. While I can't get into the details of the transaction, I did want to share some thoughts about the sale and what it means and does not mean about the state of the domain … [Read more...]
Report: Domain 688.com Sold For $1.5 Million
According to a report appearing in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was 9,580,000 RMB which according to today's exchange rate is $1,496,290.52. The domain name 688.com did change ownership yesterday. The domain was owned by a XiaoFeng Lin of China at the domain name registrar MAFF Inc. until December 5th … [Read more...]
Census.com, In Last Namescon Auction Sells To Mark Monitor Client
The domain name Census.com which was in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon in January 2015, just sold to a Mark Monitor client as the whois information changed yesterday. The domain name Census.com was one of my favorite picks from that auction. The domain name had a auction reserve of between $100,001 - $250,000 It will be interesting to see who wound up buying this … [Read more...]
SK Lubricants Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking on ZiC.com
SK Lubricants Americas of Houston, Texas was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the three letter .com domain name ZIC.com The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com The Domain Name was originally created on September 6, 2003 but the current owner obtained the Domain Name on February 28, 2015 and is offering it for sale, and is in the business of selling domain … [Read more...]
Namejet.com Reports $1.56 Million In Domain Sales In November
Namejet.com just issued its sales report for November reporting $1,561,991.00 in domain names sold. Namejet.com only report sales of $2,000 or more and for which payment was made by the end of the month. The top 16 sales had 4 characters or less: Domain Name Payment … [Read more...]