As reported earlier, WhyPark is running a charity domain auction in conjunction with Latonas.com, the new auction platform of Rick Latona. WhyPark has now published the list of domains that will be auctioned at No Reserve with a starting price of $49. The single highest bidder of all the auctions will be able to pick [...]

In a joint press release issued today, domain name company Dark Blue Sea [ASX:DBS]  and Photon Group [ASX:PGA] announced Photon’s unconditional buyout offer of DBS shares at 35 cents per share. The company made a previous takeover offer at the end of October for 30 cents per share and explained the offer to shareholders in [...]

After Oversee.net’s CEO and president Jeff Kupietzky toured Europe earlier this year, the company is now planning to open up a European office. DomainSponsor, the company’s domain parking brand had also held an “elite retreat” for their European publishers earlier this year. The European division will be operated by Joerg Schnermann as the General Manager. [...]

According to a report on the Quintura.com blog, the domain name Russia.com was sold today for $1.5 million. The former owners New Media Holdings sold the domain through Sedo.com. The sale was also reported on Sedo’s home page today. The seller, New Media Holdings, also owns other country domains including Algeria.com, Morocco.com, PuertoRico.com, SouthAfrica.com, Scotland.com, [...]

The Italian company DomainsBot, who counts Sedo as one of their investors, has just announced the launch of a new website, DomainsBot Answers. The site aims to answer questions related to domain names in the style of sites like Yahoo! Answers. To learn more about the new site, visit Answers.DomainsBot.com or read their FAQ.

This morning DomainAdvertising.com, the company that has launched their new services at the Targeted TRAFFIC show in New York, announced that they have appointed Dan Warner as their CEO. Dan Warner was last COO of Dark Blue Sea (ASX:DBS), parent company of Fabulous.com and left that position in April. “Dan Warner was the Board’s first [...]

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 are drawing in over 2 million unique visitors per month. [...]

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 for $300,000 and TripleCreditReport.com for $260,000. Previously, Nokta Domains only [...]

DOMAINFest Global 2010, which will be held by Oversee.net in Santa Monica from January 26-28th, 2009,  in  has just announced the addition of PITCHfest and LAUNCHfest. PITCHfest allows five pre-selected finalists to make 5 minute presentations of their new products ideas to the audience and a panel of judges. While the audience will be able [...]

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 and email service for more than five [...]