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 included in the [...]

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 profit organization.  It also declares ICANN is independent and is not controlled [...]

AdLINK Group (DUS:LKI) has recently completed their display marketing unit, AdLINK Media and will use the gained funds in order to .buy the remaining 24.06% of shares (currently owned by the founders) in order to increase their ownership of Sedo to 100%. The company will pay 4.25 Million of newly created AdLINK shares, as well [...]

Oversee.net‘s Moniker and Snapnames divisions have partnered with Dark Blue Sea’s (ASX:DBS, parent company of Fabulous.com) Domain Distribution Network (DDN). Customers that have their domains listed on for sale at Moniker or Snapnames can now also list their domains on the registrars that participate in the Domain Distribution Network. Domains listed with the DDN today [...]

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 event, which attracted 100 domainers, after the jump…

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. Check out the full list of results – including over 400 domains – after [...]

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 months, some of their [...]

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, the disputed trademark that has [...]

The German language forum DomainForum.info was bought by a company that operatos forum websites, ForumFactory. While the purchase price was not being published, the asking price was in the low xx.xxx Euros range plus VAT. The site was sold by previous owner NICit.

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, offering the traffic from the domain names to advertisers on a cost-per-visitor basis and [...]