Oversee.net has just launched a new fixed priced domain market place: DNEX.com. The site looks like a relauched version of their previous DomainCargo site where the company listed domains from their own portfolio. DNEX (Domain Name EXchange) currently lists over 3,000 COM, NET & ORG domains at prices ranging from $59 to $8,000 USD, payment [...]

Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, SnapNames and Moniker announced today what DNW had reported earlier: President Lawrence Ng became chairman of the board and Jeff Kupietzky has taken over his position as president of the company. Kupietzky will also join the board of the company’s parent corporation. As Chairman, Ng will remain actively involved in guiding [...]

Tucows (AMEX:TCX, TSX: TC) has just announced the launch of their YummyNames site, which lists domains from their portfolio of names for sale online. The company has before sold individual and groups of names directly and via various brokers and is now formalizing some of their offering under a new brand. “YummyNames, the public face of [...]

Oversee.net announced today that Steve Wozniak will headline the 3rd annual DOMAINfest Global event scheduled for January 28-30, 2009, in Hollywood, California. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer Inc. along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne and has been instrumental in shaping the personal computer industry. “It’s a great honor to have Steve Wozniak join us as keynote [...]

According to a press release going out tomorrow, Oversee.net’s public registrar Moniker has launched the DomainMaxLock Service. The new domain locking service is now available at an introductory rate of $34.99 per Domain Name Year which will later increase to $59.95. The security measures put in place on a “MaxLock” domain are: Provide a government I.D. number [...]

All auction providers for the Targeted TRAFFIC have now released their auction lists complete with prices. Aftermarket.com full auction cataloge Moniker/SnapNames full auction catalog (XLS) RickLatona full auction catalog Sedo will also be ending their GreatDomains auction during the conference on September 25th, 2008, but is not one of the live auction providers at the conference. The Moniker auction features [...]

Sedo announced today that Sam Nunez, a former Oversee.net executive, has been hired as the new Vice President of Product Management. In this role, Nunez will be in charge of product development, marketing and strategy for the leading domain marketplace. Nunez has a rich history of building successful online products. At Oversee.net, he was in charge [...]

We have made a correction to the Oversee.net layoff article. The previous article mentioned in the last paragraph “The news of Oversee executives being canned comes in the wake of . . . ” Domain Name News was made aware of the rumored news of Oversee layoffs on Friday and had received rumors of layoffs at [...]

Oversee.net has confirmed that the company has let go of 10% of its staff as of Friday. The company blames the downturn in the economy. A spokesperson told SocalTech “the cuts were in response to the general economic weakness and pressures in the industry.” According to the report cuts were made across [...]

According to a press release SnapNames has renewed their partnership with register.com for listing non-renewed names for auction. After being purchased by Oversee.NET SnapNames had previously lost the exclusive inventory from Network Solutions to the newly launched NameJet. Tucows recently announced that they are dropping their own aftermarket auction as of June 10th, but have [...]