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The first Sales Chart by Sedo in the new year is lead by Leisure.com, which sold for $150,000. The domain was previously owned by Canadian based Live Current Media [LIVC (NASD OTCBB)], which has been selling a number of domains over the course of 2009 (call.com, cricket.com, brazil.com, mouse.com...

As per an article by the South Florida Business Journal, the parent company of Foreclosure.com, FFS Data, has filed for Chapter 11 reorganisation on December 23rd. The company cites $9.1 million in assets versus $27.5 of debt and $15.7 million income so far.Aside from Foreclosure.com, the company...

DNCalendar.com, the domain industry’s event calendar and Domain Name News with the support of Targeted TRAFFIC, Domainer Mardi Gras, Geo Domain Expo and Domain Convergence bring you a free calendar giveaway. With the help of our sponsors, we’ve printed 250 desk calendars and one of th...

Screenshot Of Twitter DNS Hack by tenz1225 on FlickrAs per a tweet from Twitter’s Biz Stone last night followed by a blog post it appears that Twitter’s DNS servers have been compromised yesterday. The cracker redirected the DNS so it displayed a message from “The Iranian Cyber ...

While NameDrive’s NDX Market has usually never published any domain sales, the company has now shared some of its sales with us since the launch of the site six months ago. The company has sold 4,526 domains for a total amount of $4.64 million USD, at an average price of $1.025 per domain a...

In the light of eNom following suite and increasing their redemption fee to $250 (as reported by DNN), ICANN has published the “Advisory Concerning Posting of Registrar Fees for Restoring Deleted Domain Names” yesterday. In the advisory ICANN does not limit the amount chargeable for d...

Verisign (VRSN) just sent an announcement to their Registrar list saying that they will increase the registration and renewal fees for COM  domains as of July 1st, 2010. The registration, renewal and transfer fee for .COM domains will then be increased from $6.86 to $7.34 and the .NET annual fees...

Kevin Ohashi, a domainer and student, recently won the Venture Cup Syd business plan competition in Sweden.  Ohashi, who is studying for his second Masters in International Marketing and Brand Management at Lund University, won the top prize for student business plans and another top 10 recogniti...

Sedo closed $750,000 in weekly sales including Büromöbel.de for $100,000 (€69,000), SPB.com for $65,000, Arenal.com for $40,000, and MyLikes.com for $40,000.Büromöbel.de stands for “Office Furniture” in German. SPB.com was purchased by SPB Software, a mobile software company located i...

The WhyPark.com charity auction is underway featuring quality domain names donated by WhyPark.com, KidsCoats.com, SuccessClick.com, DomainNameWire, YummyNames, Chef Patrick, RobSequin.com and Latona’s.The five-day auction started on December 14 and runs until December 18. It is the first au...

Goodle has now launched it’s own URL shortener under the goo.gl domain in the ccTLD of Greenland. The service is not offered as a standalone service at this point, but is instead embedded into Google Toolbar and Feedburner. The new product also automatically checks to detect sites that may ...

Dark Blue Sea [DBS:AX] and Photon Group [PGA:AX] announced today that several DBS board members have resigned.  The director resignations come from Richard Moore, former CEO and most recently Executive Director, Vernon Wills, Chairman of the Board and Joseph Ganim, Director.  Duncan Cornish has a...

In the .EU IDN launch today German lanugage .EU domains with Umlauten (special characters) took the top spots. Also the majority of registrants of the newly released domains are from Germany according to EURid , the registry for the regional TLD. The first domain registered was ärzte.eu, meaning ...

Computer Speakers by pochacco20 (Flickr)The premium Domain Name ComputerSpeakers.com is currently in an auction at Sedo and has met it’s reserve at the current bid of $10,100 USD. Google Adwords estimates approximately 673,000 ‘Broad’ search queries each month for “Computer Speakers”. Googl...

This week’s sales report is lead by made.com, which sold for $130,000 USD. See the full list of domain sales after the jump.Domain nameDatePriceCurrencyTranslation.COMsmade.com2009-12-07130,000USDservcorp.com2009-12-0175,000USDzorbing.com2009-12-0320,000USDwebdoc.com2009-12-0219,500USDpinkn...

According to an ICANN announcement published yesterday, all UDRP providers must accept electonic filings by UDRP claimants and respondents as of March 1st, 2010. The original rules had required UDRP providers such as WIPO to provide hard copies of the entire complaint. As of March 1st they will o...

Gavel By Joe Gratz (Flickr)The Valuate.com service by Domaining.com’s founder Francois Carrillo has now added a trademark checker functionality, which automatically scans the submitted domains for potential trademark claims. The service was built by the Estibot team.Francois suggests trying...

British Policemen by Steve Punter (Flickr)The Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) in the United Kingdom announced in a Press Release that they have shut down 1,219 websites and domains in cooperation with Nominet, the .UK registry operator. The shut-down will also prevent re-r...

By Incurable Hippie (Flickr)With some of the recent sales of .CM (Cameroon) domains at various domain auctions, we  asked what those domains were actually worth. Well, it seems their resale value just took another drop, as McAfee called .CM the “Most Dangerous Country Domain” in their...

In an announcement mailed by the company today, eNom states that they have increased their Redemption Fee for domains in the Redemption Grace Period (RGP) to $250 plus the fee for a 1 year renewal of the domain. The redemption grace period follows the deletion of the domain by the registrar and w...

Google has just launched a Public DNS service according to a post on the Official Google Blog. The goal of the service is “to benefit users worldwide while also helping the tens of thousands of DNS resolvers improve their services, ultimately making the web faster for everyone“. On th...

Until ICANN releases One Letter TLDs (no plans have been announced so far), .TO has now introduced the world’s shortest URL shortener in partnership with eCorporation.com. Unfortunately the new service comes with some problems:When you try to access the service from your webbrowser, you can...

In full European tradition, NameDrive has prepared an Advent Calendar for all its customers to enjoy during this holiday season.Every day for the next 24 days, the NameDrive Advent Calendar will reveal a new “present” to the world including new parking templates, NameDrive products, a...

Once more AfterNIC DLS was so kind to provide us with selected sales throughout the last week. The sales this week includes Carriage.com at $10,000 and FreeFood.org for $8,800.See the full list of reported Afternic DLS sales after the jump..COM Salescarriage.com10000broadwaybuzz.com8588ultimateca...

DOMAINFest Global 2010, which will be held by Oversee.net in Santa Monica from January 26-28th, 2009,  in  has just an Dinner Party to be held at The Getty.From the Press Release:The Getty sits on a 110-acre hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountain range. DOMAINfest attendees will have exclusive...

ICANN has sent termination notices to three more registrars, meaning that they will be losing their ICANN accreditation and the domain names managed by the registrar will be transferred to other registrars. The registrars that have failed to comply with the Registrar Accreditation Agreement by no...

As reported earlier, WhyPark is running a charity domain auction in conjunction with Latonas.com, the new auction platform of Rick Latona. WhyPark has now published the list of domains that will be auctioned at No Reserve with a starting price of $49. The single highest bidder of all the auctions...