Sedo started recently a special auction for .nl domains Some of the top names with current bids: huren.nl 17,777 EUR wk.nl 7,777 EUR planten.nl 5,000 EUR reclames.nl 4,000 EUR relatiegesche… 2,500 EUR starten.nl 2,500 EUR illustraties.nl 2,000 EUR voornamen.nl … Read more »
Dot MX – Mexican domain names registry reached 250K registrations. DomainNews reports: NIC Mexico (Network Information Center México), the registry and administrators of the .MX cctTLD, is announcing that on April 28th, 250,000 .MX domain name registrations have been reached. This new threshhold turns out to be highly promising for the increasing use of .MX domain names, given the… Read more »
Not surprising with their recent rapid economical growth, China now has more internet users than US. And they also have over 10 million .cn domain names registered. But what? At $0.13 per domain (yes, you read it right – you can register a .cn domain for just 13 cents, for example on todaynic) Chinese domains… Read more »
Qualified businesses and professionals can reserve their business names, trademarks, and personal names on a first-come, first-served basis prior to the rule changes using EnCirca’s ProForwarding service (http://www.encirca.pro). Trademark owners may protect their intellectual property in advance of any rule changes by using EnCirca’s ProForwarding service as well.The dot-pro public comment period is over and… Read more »
Apparently the Soviet Union is still alive. Except for Soviet Union emblem t-shirts being a hot item in Russia now, Russian webmasters don’t want to break their connection to the shady communist past and keep fighting ICANN to protect the obsolete .su extension. Read more on the matter here ICANN is still attempting to delete… Read more »
Here is some interesting information about the .in domaining space. .in domains became available for registration only in 2005 (there was .co.in before that, which is less popular now) and all the top names are taken by several individuals/organizations. There are currently around 400k-500K .in domains registered. For comparison .asia which just started recently has… Read more »
It was reported that Money.co.uk was sold for an astounding $2.4M! Money.co.uk is a nice looking site, but doesn’t seem to have much traffic The report remains unconfirmed and is only based on a digg article and a few blogs that picked it up, so it might as well turn out a hoax, or a… Read more »
.me is about to be launched. Sounds pretty good for a personal site. I think many people would like it and it has many cool possibilities, like kill.me, love.me, hug.me, pay.me etc. A tld that is also a word! .ME Registry officials today announced the roll-out plan for .ME, the new domain name extension. .ME… Read more »
Update: Domain was sold. X2.ca For $1495 – This is not a Joke! Post sold to claim the domain Payment expected within 24 hours – Paypal or escrow, buy pays the fees. —-
A quick update on the recent .ca pool auction results: icq.ca sold for $3400 north.ca sold for $2701 MyID is also going to do a premium .ca auction. They are mostly after 2-3 char domains and generics. Also cities and french domains. Myid.ca doesn’t seem to be too popular so I’m guessing this auction won’t… Read more »