As first reported by DNN, Keydrive bough Monikter and Snapnames from Oversee.net. The official Press Release was published today and can be found after the jump.

Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends today. At the time of this post, 53 out of the listed 71 domains have received bids. The auction ends today (Jan 26) at noon Eastern Time. Domain Current Bid Price Range # of Bids received Bid now zimbabwe.com 45,000 USD 25,000 – 49,999 USD 16 Continue channel.com 41,000 USD [...]

As Francois from Domaining.com reports, his blogger newsletter special to celebrate the beginning of 2012 sold 9 domain names to 5 buyers. A 6th buyer did not follow through on his payment for the 10th name. The sales were: GoldBangles.com … $7,000 Winy.com … $3,900 PartyAccessories.com … $3,000 MarketingService.com … $3,000 DesignerPens.com … $899 Mung.com [...]

Domaining.com asked domainers to submit their best deal for this special event and ~500 domainers participated. Shane Cultra of DomainShane.com to helped to pick pick the 100 best deals. To give a sale chance domains that were not picked will be promoted in the next Domaining.com newsletter. The names are sold on a first come first served. [...]

Domain Industry news aggregator Domaining.com is running a special newsletter collecting the 100 best submitted domains. The newsletter will be mailed out on Jan 9th, 2011. You can now submit your domains for consideration and the names will then be mailed to Domaining.com subscribers as well as emailed to the members of the following forums: DNForum.com, DomainState.com [...]

DNN’s advertiser DomainTools is giving away a free Reverse Whois Report for up to $99 to a winner in a giveaway they launched recently. In order to enter, visit their site to send an email to Santa before January 2nd, 2011. Maybe here’s a chance to run the query you’ve been waiting to run for free…

SnapNames/Moniker’s year end auction ends today. At the time of this post (about 10 hours before the end of the auction), 15 domains of the 53 domains in the auction have currently received bids and apparently “answer.com” (which was listed for $150,000) has been removed from the auction.

WALTHAM, Mass.– (November 9, 2011) –Afternic, announced today that it has been selected as the exclusive broker for over 1,000 premium names owned by Internet REIT, Inc., a media company that owns and manages high-quality domain names.  Domains listed for sale by iREIT include many high-value names such as OfficeSupply.com, HouseFinancing.com, FlightDeals.com, and SecondMortgage.com. “Afternic’s [...]

There’s only about 10 hours to go in the HuntingMoon WMA Amsterdam adult domain auction by Hunting Moon (Adult Content). The auction features domain names ranging from $1 to $2,500,000 USD and contains domains like iFilms.com for $25,000 USD. Disclaimer: Hunting Moon is an advertiser on DNN.

In June ICANN had announced that it was bringing on board Thomas Spiller in their Brussels office as a VP for the European Region. He was supposed to start this week. Apparently he changed his mind. So far ICANN has not made an announcement as to who is going to take his place and according [...]