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SPB.com Sells For $65,000 in Sedo Weekly Sales Report
by Chad Kettner on Dec.15, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: 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 in New Jersey. Arenal.com is a geo-bas…
WhyPark.com Charity Auction Underway
by Chad Kettner on Dec.15, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: 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 auction to be used by Rick Latona Aucti…
NameCheap Hosting 2nd Annual Twitter Trivia Contest
by Chad Kettner on Dec.15, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: Namecheap.com, a leading domain name registrar, is hosting its second annual holiday Twitter trivia contest, featuring $20,000 in prizes including domain name credits, Dell Studio 15 laptops, and Barnes & Noble nooks.
“We had a great time with our trivia contest last year and felt our clients and new users did as well so we…
NameDrive Announces Advent Calendar For Domainers
by Chad Kettner on Dec.01, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: 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, and words of wisdom from NameDrive emp…
DevHub.com Secures $1.5 Million In Capital
by Chad Kettner on Nov.24, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: The EVO Media Group — the Seattle-based company behind DevHub.com, a popular website builder and hosting platform — has closed a round of growth capital totaling $1.5 million.
DevHub.com was launched in February 2009 and has since grown to include over 30,000 publishers whose websites are drawing in over 2 million unique …
NoktaDomains.com Introduces New Marketplace
by Chad Kettner on Nov.24, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: NoktaDomains.com has launched a new domain marketplace with a searchable catalog of over 200,000 premium domain names for sale. The site was recently released by Nokta Internet Technologies, a company that has sold more than 1,100 domain names in the past eight years including FreeCreditReport.co.uk for $300,000 and TripleCreditRepor…
Law Firm Claims Cybersquatting and TM Infringement Against Ex-Employee’s Gripe Site
by Chad Kettner on Nov.16, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: Levinson Axelrod, a New Jersey law firm, is trying to shut down an ex-employee’s gripe site, alleging cybersquatting and trademark infringement.
Edward Heyburn, who worked for Levinson Axelrod from 1998 to 2004, started a “Levinson Axelrod Sucks” website in late September, using the domain name LevinsonAxelrod.net t…
Two Groups Competing For .GAY TLD
by Chad Kettner on Oct.26, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: According to the New York Times, The Dot Gay Alliance (dotgay.org) of New York City and dotGay (dotgay.com) of San Francisco are both planning to apply to ICANN for the .GAY TLD. And while they haven’t closed the door to joining forces, they aren’t exactly planning to work together as of yet.
The Dot Gay Alliance
Sedo Clears $1 Million In Weekly Sales Report
by Chad Kettner on Oct.19, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: 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 $22,500 (€15,000), and TDYLodging.com f…
Ticket.com and Luck.com Lead AfternicDLS To $2.7 Million In Weekly Sales
by Chad Kettner on Oct.13, 2009, under News
Domain Name News: AfternicDLS has posted an astonishing $2.7 million in weekly sales thanks to the impressive sales of Ticket.com for $1,525,000 and Luck.com for $675,000.
On October 8 it was announced by AfternicDLS that Ticket.com sold for $1,525,000 in a sale that was closed by a BuyDomains Sales Representative. On the same day, Peter Lamson of Aft…