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SnapNames has issued rebate offers and has re-published all auction bidding history to the user’s accounts, we would like to know what you are considering:Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Note: There is a poll embedded...

It didn’t take long for the sharks to begin circling. It’s come to our attention that class action attorneys already smelling blood in the water have begun investigating the possibility of a class-action case against SnapNames.  Blim & Edelson, Chicago based class-action attorneys...

An update for the developing Snapnames story:According to a post on NamePros from Rob, an employee of Oversee.net’s support, Snapnames will restate all bidding history in their interface. The information had been truncated before and thus was only showing auctions up to November 2007.[Ed. E...

In the recently admitted “halvarez” scandal where an employee placed bids in Snapnames domain auctions against company policy, the company has started to email details on the offered rebates – you can find a de-personalized copy of the email after the jump. By accepting the reba...

On the heels of the recent 1 character .biz domain and 2 character .de domain auctions at Sedo, domain auction house Pool.com announced yesterday that they have teamed up with Neustar to auction off more than 1000 two character .biz domains.  The domains will be made available in a phased release...

The Targeted TRAFFIC NYC 2009 Silent Domain Auction by Moniker and Snapnames ended yesterday, selling another 139 domains for a total of $278,338.00 bringing the combined auction total for live and silent to $690,488. The top three sales were:OneOfAKind.com at $26,000LoanOfficer.com at $16,000FDA...

When I read the news today from Oversee and SnapNames stating that an employee had been bidding on domains, I knew. . . I knew who it was. I didn’t want to hear it but I knew. Like many of my colleagues who frequented SnapNames auctions over the years, the first name that came to mind was &...

[Updated] According to a statement from Oversee.net’s SnapNames, an employee was found to have bid in 5% of their auctions since 2005 and in some cases arranged for a partial refund of the sales price after winning an auction. DNN was able to identify the bidder as Nelson Brady, the VP of E...

A ruling by the US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit in the case of U.S. v Kilbride has determined that using whois privacy on domains can be considered “material falsification”.  The case involved an appeal on criminal charges of spamming. The ruling in this case provides an the courts op...

Rick Latona Auctions has just announced that some of the reserves in the extended TRAFFIC NYC auction have been lowered:StateFlag.com and StateFlags.com 25,000 USDPacking.com 100,000 USDLisbon.com 175,000 USDGolfClubs.com 35,642.16 per month for 60 months, or 1,765,000 USD cashThe Extended Rick L...

Join Adam Strong and Jothan Frakes (Live from South Korea) for a video chat about the #ICANN meeting. If you are prompted for a password, enter “domains123″.

Domain name broker and “lead negotiator” for Sedo’s brokerage services, Christian Kalled announced on his facebook page today that he is no longer working for the company.  Kalled was instrumental in some of the biggest deals that have been recorded at Sedo including the famous ...

While we were already live blogging the auction Moniker Live auction at Targeted TRAFFIC New York yesterday, here are the official results. The auction total was $412,150 for 46 sold names. The silent auction will start at noon EDT today. The top sale was MultiVitamins.com at $45,000 and the aver...

We will be were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in New York City for Moniker/SnapNames Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction, which goes from October...

Next year’s DomainFest Global in Santa Monica, which again feature a charity fundraiser party at the legendary Playboy mansion. The event will benefit Jenny McCarthy’s autism organization Generation Rescue, a foundation dedicated to funding biomedical treatment for families who can not affo...

DNN.com and DNW.com are combining forces to host  a live chat and video broadcast at 3:50 EST today.  Andrew Alleman and Adam Strong will be chatting live during the “pre-game” video chat and will be in the chat room throughout the auction.   Barring any technical issues, we’re ...

We will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in New York City for Rick Latona’s Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction from October 28th until Nov...

AfternicDLS reported selling 400+ domains for over $600,000 USD over the course of the previous week. The sales chart is lead by AssociatesDegree.com, which sold for $32,000. The full list of reported sales, follows after the jump..COM SalesDomain Price associatesdegree.com $32,000 healthtree.com...

According to our contacts at the current ICANN meeting in South Korea ICANN staff has announced that the schedule for new gTLDs will be pushed out even beyond Q2/2010 due to the controversy and amount of different opinions and comments from the community.In the meantime other working groups are p...

The Sedo sales chart for this week is lead by Sudan.com, which sold for $120,000 USD. Other top sales include xoxide.com for $76,000, jjj.com for $48,500 and wordy.com for $20,000.After the jump the reported Sales from Sedo from the preceeding week.Domain nameDatePriceCurrencyTranslation.COMssuda...

If you are interested in catching the ICANN meetings live, the webcast is up with a chat window.There was a popular “adversarial style” debate held between VPs from Afilias and Demand Media over new TLD registries owning registars that according to one tweet was compelling enough to c...

After technical difficulties during before the Sedo auctions for the newly released and previously blocked .DE domain names (we reported last Friday) the company has now split the ending times for the auctions as follows:auctions for 3+ letter domains will end at 9pm CETauctions for 2 letter doma...

Sedo posted over $1 million in overall domain name sales this week, led by Resumes.com at $400,000.Other top sales included 1.biz for $32,003, BrowserGame.com for $30,000, Tische.de for $30,000 (€20,000), Musica4All.com for $27,000 (€18,000), Travestis.es for $22,500 (€15,000), Intranet.nl for $2...

In an announcement making some waves in the SEO world last week, Yahoo announced that they would be ending their paid inclusion program.  SearchEngineLand.com points out access to Yahoo’s paid inclusion sales page has been redirected to their advertising.yahoo.com.“Both the “Search Submit B...

As per a comment on our post telling you about the release of fomerly restricted .DE domains, Sedo has now announced a pre-auction for those domains in conjunction with a number of unnamed registrar partners. The terms and conditions of the auction warrent a closer look.In #2, Duties of Sedo, the...

Despite being clearly limited in scope, the purpose of the UDRP continues to be ignored by experienced panelists. The result is an ever-expanding environment for domain disputes that exists completely far from any legislative or judicial oversight.In the recently decide Deutsche Kreditbank AG v....

TechCrunch just ran an article about Digg.com acquiring it’s founders side project, WeFollow.com. As an interesting side tidbit I thought I’d throw out something I just happened across yesterday.  I was digging through some historic domain data the other day and noticed the buyer kros...

Following an order of a German court, forcing DENIC, the registry operator of the .DE ccTLD to register the two letter domain vw.de, DENIC has now announced that they will open up registration for almost all formerly restricted domains on October 23rd as of 9am CET. The registry says that they ha...

Rob Monster announced on the Epik.com blog today that expiring domain name service provider JustDropped.com has been purchased and will be incorported in to the Epik.com offerings. JustDropped claims to receive 400,000 monthly unique visitors and have 42,000  email subscribers.Monster and JustDro...

Kieren McCarthy announced on his own blog that he will leaving ICANN on November 25th. According to his blog post he’s got many items on his todo list, some related to his Sex.com book and new business ideas. He joined ICANN as General Manager of Public Participation in November of 2007 and...