Domain Name News: “Most Wanted Domains reports $100k+ in domain sales in 10 days” plus 4 more |
- Most Wanted Domains reports $100k+ in domain sales in 10 days
- NameJet offering domain name auction services to new gTLD operators
- New TLDs: DirectI Forms Radix, Applies for 31 new TLDs
- Sedo .ME May Auction Ends in less than four hours
- New Zealand’s domain name commission proposes .NZ second level registrations
| Most Wanted Domains reports $100k+ in domain sales in 10 days Posted: 31 May 2012 04:58 PM PDT As reported by DNN earlier, Most Wanted Domains recently started reporting their domain sales in real time via Facebook and Twitter. Exactly 10 days ago the first domain sale was announced, which was AllTricks.com selling for $13,500. During the past week and a half alone, they have already scored 8 domain sales for a total of $108,250. The highest priced domain was DailyBreaks.com which sold for a cool $25,000. Below you can find the complete list of all of the domains reported as sold by MWD on Twitter.
Most Wanted Domains is owned and operated by Worldwide Media Incorporated, a Florida corporation that is privately held. Popular domain industry blogger Michael Berkens owns the Florida/North Carolina based domain holding company, which currently has over 80,000 domains in it’s portfolio. Anybody want to take a guess at how many domains will be reported sold by MWD in the month of June and for how much total? So far in May, with the little data that was made available, it seems that there was about one sale per day on average. Related posts:
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| NameJet offering domain name auction services to new gTLD operators Posted: 31 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT NameJet just released new details about the offering of their services to gTLD registry operators who are interested in running sunrise & land rush auctions and premium domain sales on the NameJet.com platform. According to the updated website “NameJet will be the premier destination for landrush, premium and general availability auction services.” NameJet will be offering auction services for registries of new generic TLD strings (and generic trademark strings) that wish to auction the rights amongst multiple interested parties. Premium domain sales will include reserve and no reserve auctions, fixed price listing services and extensive co-marketing services for Registry owned premium domains. There isn’t too much other information readily available at this time about the newly announced services. NameJet.com plans to also offer standard drop catching / general availability auctions of new gTLD domains. NameJet will use its advanced technology and expertise to help facilitate the sales of the new gTLD strings to it's customer base when possible, according to the website. NameJet is the premiere, aftermarket domain name service with exclusive inventory of some of the most desired expired domains. NameJet uses award winning domain name aftermarket technology that allows domain professionals, businesses, and individuals to acquire domain names including those that just expired. Related posts:
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| New TLDs: DirectI Forms Radix, Applies for 31 new TLDs Posted: 31 May 2012 10:46 AM PDT
The DirectI group of companies applied for a total of 31 generic and industry vertical TLDs, paying close to $6 million dollars in application fees. The company created a new subsidiary called “Radix” to submit the application for the following TLDs: web, .shop, .bank, .law, .music, .news, .blog, .movie, .baby, .store, .doctor, .hotel, .play, .home .site, .website, .click, .online, .one, .ping, .space, .world, .press, .chat, .city, .deals, .insurance .loans, .app, .host, and .hosting
See the full press release after the jump.
Directi Group Applies for Thirty-one Top-Level Domain strings in the ICANN process Under its new venture ‘Radix’, invests over $30m towards TLD Applications Austin, TX and Dubai, UAE – May 31, 2012 – Directi Group, a global leader in Internet products and Web services, today announced its ambitious effort to secure Top-Level Domains (TLDs) under ICANN’s program to expand the Internet’s addressing system. Under its new brand – Radix – Directi has committed over $30 million on the application of 31 strings comprising several generic and mass market names. "This is a historic moment in the evolution of the Internet," said Bhavin Turakhia, founder and CEO of Directi Group. "We have invested a significant amount of time and resources to developing intelligent, responsible, secure and thorough proposals for what could serve as the foundation for this new era on the Internet." Directi's list of 31 applications includes: .web, .shop, .bank, .law, .music, .news, .blog, .movie, .baby, .store, .doctor, .hotel, .play, .home .site, .website, .click, .online, .one, .ping, .space, .world, .press, .chat, .city, .deals, .insurance .loans, .app, .host, and .hosting A brief description of their plans and policies for these new extensions can be found on their website: www.radixregistry.com. “Today’s internet addresses are uncategorized and say nothing about the website. In addition, it is near impossible to find available names that are short and memorable. Our research shows that over 65% of users are unable to find a name of their choice. We welcome the opportunity to usher in an era where internet addresses distinguish a plumber from a lawyer and domain names with hyphens are a thing of the past.” said Bhavin. The experienced teams at Directi and Radix have spent almost two years developing policies and procedures specific to each major category of extensions – Financial Services, Legal, Social & Healthcare, Ecommerce and Generic. The team has pioneered industry leading abuse protection policies and creative rights protection mechanisms to help safeguard trademark holders. Turakhia continued, "As one of the world’s top ten registrars, we equally understand our ability to make a sizable contribution towards curbing Internet abuse and believe that mitigating potential threats is one of our foremost responsibilities. For the new TLDs, we have created policies, processes and services that go significantly above and beyond our obligations and aim to make domain names and the Internet, a safer experience for the internet community." Directi runs some of the largest and most successful domain name registrars and Web hosting companies in the world. It is known for its success in building high performance Web services solutions among its various business units including ResellerClub, Media.net, LogicBoxes, BigRock, Skenzo and WebHosting.info. About Radix Radix FZC is a Directi Business whose mission is to become the registry operator of a variety of top level domains. Radix will be an active participant in ICANN’s process to expand the Internet naming system, and will aim to obtain rights to operate several new generic domains. Radix will leverage Directi’s rich domain expertise, and will be led by an able team that has helped flourish some of Directi‘s existing registrar and web hosting businesses. About Directi Group Directi (http://www.directi.com) is a $300+ million group of Businesses, that develop innovative mass-market Web Productsserving millions of Customers worldwide. Directi businesses include ResellerClub.com, BigRock.com, LogicBoxes, Media.net, Skenzo and rank amongst the fastest growing businesses worldwide in their corresponding industry segments. The combined Product Portfolio of various Directi businesses includes – Communication and Collaboration apps, Social Networking software, Instant messaging, Context Analysis Engines, Antispam and Antivirus Solutions, Large scale Billing and Provisioning platforms, Traffic Monetization Solutions, Online Advertising Solutions, DNS Management Products, Linux and Windows Server Management Software, Web Hosting Control Panels and much more. Directi is headquartered in Dubai, UAE and has more than 800 employees world-wide across five offices in the UAE, India, United States, and China. Related posts:
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| Sedo .ME May Auction Ends in less than four hours Posted: 31 May 2012 04:58 AM PDT Sedo’s May .ME auction ends today in less than four hours. The auction started a week ago and here are the current bids:
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| New Zealand’s domain name commission proposes .NZ second level registrations Posted: 30 May 2012 10:04 AM PDT The .NZ DNCL just announced the proposal of extending the .nz domain name space by allowing anybody to register domains at the “second level”. This has the potential to significantly alter New Zealand's domain name space, so the NZ domain name commission is now actively looking for feedback and submissions to get your views on the latest proposal. Key features of the .NZ proposals include the following:
The “consultation paper” which is available for download right here provides in-depth details about what is being proposed. It also includes marked up versions of the main policies affected so that people can get an indication of how it may be implemented. Each section of the consultation paper raises specific questions. The DNCL asks for individuals to respond to these questions or to any of the issues raised through the online response form. Submissions can also be made by e-mail to policies@dnc.org.nz, by fax to (04) 495 2115, or by postal mail to P O Box 11881, Wellington. The closing date for feedback and submissions is on September 27, 2012. As of this writing, there are 484,758 active .NZ domain registrations according to the New Zealand Registry Services website. This includes .co.nz, .ac.nz, .geek.nz , .gen.nz, .maori.nz , .net.nz, .org.nz, .school.nz, .cri.nz , .govt.nz, .iwi.nz, .parliament.nz, .mil.nz and .health.nz. Related posts:
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