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, ...

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 b...

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 R...

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 opin...

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 $3...

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 ...

Domain name registrar Godaddy made three major changes to their Premium Listings service last week.  First, the percentage that Godaddy charges for these listings has been reduced to a flat fee of 30% across the board and secondly, the cap on domain name prices sold on the Premium Listings has been...

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 cre...

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 Submi...

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 krose1...

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 JustDrop...

In a bizarre ruling in California federal court, NBA star Chris Bosh was awarded the domain name ChrisBosh.com and nearly 800 of these domain names from alleged cybersquatter, Luis Zavala of Hoopology.com.  The ruling gives Bosh the authority to take over the domain names of hundreds of basketball ...

For all you late night partying domainers, there’s some good news coming from the TRAFFIC show. Rick Schwartz announced today that the TRAFFIC domain show in New York will be adding a new “Night Pass”.  The $995 pass allows attendees to be at the auctions, night parties and the tr...

With the announcement of Photon Group’s take-over move, Dark Blue Sea (ASX:DBS), parent company of Fabulous.com and Domain Distribution Network (DDN) has seen it’s share of headline news in the domain space this week.  DBS announced today, in an investors release (PDF), that they have ...

Dark Blue Sea CEO Gregory Platz has released a statement pertaining to the Photon Group Takeover announcement The memo advises : DBS is reviewing the offer documents prepared by Photon and will provide further advise to shareholders in due course. DBS Shareholders are advised to take no action in re...

In a Dark Blue Sea press release, the parent company of Fabulous.com announced the acquisition of an Australian Domain Name Business — enabling the company to become an Australian domain name reseller and generate revenues in AU dollars to help combat the current exchange rate. “The acqu...

Sedo just wrapped up their single character .biz auction today, pulling in over $360,000 on 31 domains, or an average of roughly $11,000 per domain.  Andrew at DNW pointed out that E.biz was the top contender with over 20 bids coming in and a whopping $66,001 price tag.   Several domains were not...

Effective October 1, internet governing body ICANN will no longer be under the control of the U.S. Government. The Affirmation of Commitments signed today by the US Government’s National Telecommunications Information Administration and ICANN commits to allowing ICANN remain a private not for ...

While I know that the desire of those who give of their “time, talent and treasure” is not to seek recognition, I’ve decided to point out several stories from people that I’ve met in the domain business that are giving back in ways that I find inspiring. Over the last few mon...

In December of 2008, Verizon won a default judgment of $33 million against domain registrar OnlineNic. OnlineNic didn’t present arguments in the case, leaving many to assume that the registrar was simply hiding from the ruling or using it’s location in China as a shield.  The Register r...

TechCrunch and DNW.com both covered this story today. Turns out that Zappos.com paid $4.9 million to acquire Clothes.com from IdeaLab in 2008.  The new revealed domain price puts Clothes.com at the second largest sale of 2008 behind the sale of Fund.com according to DNJournal’s sale chart for...

Over the years hundreds of stories of domain name theft have been reported, most famous among them of course is the theft of Sex.com.  Even as recent as last week, reports of stolen domains sent a chilling reminder through the domain industry as valuable domains Before.com, Adios.com and others wer...

Dark Blue Sea, parent company to Fabulous.com and DomainDistribution.com, released newly updated sites for both services today.  Domain name registrar Fabulous.com announced new enhanced security features and whois privacy just short of two weeks ago. The new Fabulous site coincides with the launch...

The Domain Roundtable extended auction ended Tuesday night with little fanfare.   An additional 54 domain names sold with a total take of $81,774.   From our observations of the auction proceedings, all but one of the domain names that sold went for the proxy bid prices that were entered before ...

As mentioned previously Facebook is introducing Vanity URLs on Saturday . . .or what they are simply referring to as usernames.  Further details of the new usernames was posted on the Facebook blog today and there is a countdown to the Saturday, 12:01 AM EST release date as well. With over 200 mill...