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 locat...

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 auct...

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 clie...

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...

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 ar...

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...

Three hackers — Christopher Allen Lewis, 19,  James Robert Black Jr., 20, and Michael Paul Lebel, 28 — have been hit with a federal conspiracy charge this week due to their involvement in the 2008 hijacking of Comcast.net – a prank that took down the cable company’s homepage...

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 th...

Rick Latona Auctions announced that it will donate its services as well as its brand new online auction platform (developed in house) to the WhyPark Charity Domain Auction taking place from December 7 to December 11, 2009. The auction will be the first to utilize the new beta auction platform which ...

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...

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 fo...

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. O...

Sedo has posted $600,000 in weekly sales led by Mutuelle.fr (”Mutual” in French) for $116,000 (€78,001). Other notable sales were IsBan.com for $15,600 (€10,500), ActiveCare.com for $13,000, and LocalTube.com for $11,000. Check out the full list of results after the jump… ...

Domainer Mardi Gras 2010 early bird special registration rate of only $495 is ending on Wednesday, October 15, and passes will increase to $895 the next day. Take a few minutes to register today for this exciting event! Domainer Mardi Gras is taking place on February 11-13, 2010, at the New Orleans ...

AfternicDLS posted $745,000 in weekly sales including Koken.com for $12,450, HealthCareAdministration.com for $10,000, AfricanFashion.com for $9,000, and Shirts.org for $8,300. In total, the company reported 450 sales overall. Check out the full list of results after the jump… .COM Dom...

Sedo brokered $800,000 worth of domain sales this past week including RSS.com which closed at $125,000. RSS.com was previously for sale through Sedo in October 2008 at a price of $750,000, but never sold. The domain has great potential as it can be used for a wide range of RSS-related services. This...

Photon Group Limited,  one of Australia’s largest communications companies representing more than 49 independent specialist businesses, has launched a takeover bid for Dark Blue Sea, the parent company of Fabulous.com. Photon, which already owns 30.55% of all DBS company issued shares, is off...

MeetDomainers supported by Aftermarket.pl hosted the only live domain auction in Poland earlier this week and sold 34 of 60 domains for a total of nearly $120,000 (€80,000). The top sale was Lekarze.pl (”Doctors”) for $50,000 (€33,750). Check out the full list of results from the ev...

AfternicDLS reported over $600,000 in weekly sales including WellThen.com for $13,200, LoveToLove.com for $12,000, and AreaCode.org for $8,000. However, the biggest sale of the week was undoubtedly Flying.com which was sold through BuyDomains.com, although the terms of the sale remain confidential. ...

Sedo posted its weekly sales results with over $700,000 worth of domains in total. The top sales this week were Rent.co.uk for $103,000 (65,000 GBP) and AdMedia.com for $50,000. Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire believes whoever has taken charge of AdMedia.com is trying to make a play on Ad.com, t...

Elephant Traffic has launched its new online service for direct navigation advertising – offering domainers a risk-free monetization method for high quality, high traffic generic domain names. The Elephant Traffic service allows domainers to use their traffic for direct navigation advertising,...

As mentioned yesterday, a group of businesses — mostly consisting of registrars, new gTLD candidates, and new gTLD consultants — sent a letter to ICANN urging the Board of Directors to initiate the new TLD system without further delay. While 61 businesses endorsed the letter, the Interne...

Sedo today announced it has acquired the parking company ParkingPanel.com, a domain monetization service provider that is well known for working with large domain portfolio owners and hosting companies to increase revenue. Sedo will be incorporating the ParkingPanel.com brand into its own, transitio...

The .ME Registry has announced a new program for the non-auction allocation of premium .ME domain names to successful companies and organizations that have big ideas for development. In order to apply for a domain, potential recipients need to submit a creative and viable business proposal for the d...

It seems ICANN is getting it from both sides these days – with Republican lawmakers opposing the new TLDs and trying to delay the process as well as supporters of the new system urging the Board of Directors of ICANN to “initiate the new top-level domain application period without furthe...