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Webhosting.co.uk Sells For $500,000
October 30, 2012 @ 11:30 AMDave Evanson, domain name broker for Sedo, the global domain name auction website has announced via his Facebook page that he has successfully negotiated the sale of WebHosting.co.uk for $500,000.
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Backlash Rising Against Second Level .uk Domains
October 29, 2012 @ 1:10 PMExisting .uk domain owners upset about plans for second level domains.
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Social Annotation Site Diigo.com Recovering After Domain Hijacking Nightmare
October 29, 2012 @ 12:57 PMDiigo, a social bookmarking and annotation site, is finally back online 50 hours after the domain was first hijacked. It’s an incredible story that involves crisis management, blackmail, investigative research, payoffs, a clever thief, and points to potential problems with the domain name registry system that could affect anyone with a website. Diigo’s co-founder called it a nightmare and crisis that he’d like to help other companies avoid.
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DreamOval Launches Domains Purchasing Service, Qikli.mobi
October 29, 2012 @ 12:56 PMAcross Ghana, many businesses are recognizing the value of having a website to promote their brands due to the wide patronage of internet use in the country and it also affords consumers to abreast themselves with products and services being churned out by companies.
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Pinterest Pierces Top 50 Most-Visited Sites List
October 26, 2012 @ 12:59 PMThough Google still reigns as No. 1, a ComScore study shows that Pinterest joined other social networks for the most frequently visited sites in the U.S. for September.
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Verisign Blames Google for Drop in Domain Registration & Renewal Rates
October 26, 2012 @ 4:17 AMThe number of new domains being registered, and existing domains being renewed, is slowing down and Verisign — the company that operates the .com and .net — says Google is a main reason why.
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40 End-User Domain Sales
October 25, 2012 @ 9:39 AMIt was a busy week for end user domain sales: A university bought the name for its new mascot, a rehab center spent $30k on a category defining domain name, and a company bought a three letter .com as an acronym that likely cost less than it would have paid to get its longer name.
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Cognac.com Sells for $140,000
October 25, 2012 @ 9:16 AMDallas company Weblabcenter has sold Cognac.com for $140,000. Weblabcenter bought the domain name in a Sedo GreatDomains auction in 2008 for $88,000. That’s nearly a 60% return in about four years.
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Locksmiths “Pick” Fight with Frank Schilling
October 25, 2012 @ 9:15 AMIDN, Inc., the company that runs Locksmith Dealers of America (LSDA), picked a fight with the wrong guy. The company filed a UDRP against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration over the domain name LSDA.com.
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.XXX Operator Releases Main Wave of Premium Generic Keyword Domains
October 24, 2012 @ 10:12 AMFollowing the highly-successful launch of the Internet’s first Top Level Domain (TLD) porn search engine, Search.xxx, ICM Registry today announced the release of over 1,000 premium generic keyword domain names. These domain names are now available for registration on a first come, first served basis and many reflect the most popular key words searched by millions of adult content connoisseurs.
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