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Trellian and Above.com Acquires DomainState.com

October 17, 2013January 20, 2010 by David Warmuz

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of DomainState.com, one of the oldest and highly respected Domain related forums online. We do have a few …

Above.com – New Parking Services: ActiveAudience & DomainSpa

October 17, 2013January 20, 2010 by nicholas

We have just added two more parking services to Above.com Parking Manager: ActiveAudience and DomainSpa. If you want to try these new services out, feel …

.Asia Domains Not Worth Much

October 17, 2013January 19, 2010 by nicholas

People who have invested in the regional TLD, .asia will be disappointed to know that their domains probably aren’t worth much. Recently sold at auction were five generic .asia domains, which did not sell for substantial amounts, considering what they would if they were domains of another TLD or ccTLD (like .com or .fr).

.CN domain names available to individuals

October 17, 2013January 18, 2010 by maxime

According to CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center), individuals will soon be able to register domain names under the .cn extension. At the moment .cn …

Credit.fr highest selling .fr domain name

October 17, 2013January 18, 2010 by brooke

Credit.fr sold for

.info (Information) and .es (Spain) Domain Registration Specials

October 17, 2013January 18, 2010 by nicholas

If you want to register a few domains and are willing to wait, keep an eye on the big domain registrar, such as Moniker, GoDaddy …

Haiti Earthquake Domain Names

October 17, 2013January 15, 2010 by brooke

Internet users have been warned to take care donating towards the latest natural disaster, in Haiti.

The FBI has warned those wishing to donate money, to those affected by the misfortunate natural disaster, to not respond to unsolicited incoming emails and to be wary of those who represent themselves as a victim through emails or social networking sites.

It is important that you are aware when opening files of images from the Haiti disaster that they could contain viruses.

Associated Press has reported that “more than 400 Internet addresses related to Haiti have been registered since Monday’s devastating quake’.

Disney Domain Dispute

October 17, 2013January 15, 2010 by brooke

Disney, a major media company, filed a domain dispute case requesting for 41 domain names to be transferred to Disney as they were all very similar to trademarks Disney has registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Drop.com.au Hides Proxy Bids and Stops Snipe Bidding

October 17, 2013January 14, 2010 by David Warmuz

Drop.com.au the Australian drop catching service for com.au and .net.au domains just announced two major changes to their bidding platform. Extended bidding time to stop snipe bidding and hidden bids on all domains that you are not participating in.

This is great news as it was always a big rates to place bids in the last few seconds only to lose the domain, one that you would have bid more on, if you had the extra time. I feel that this will really increase drop’s daily takings and is a good move.

To read the full notification from drop.com.au here.

What are two character domain names worth?

October 17, 2013January 13, 2010 by brooke

8l.com sold through online auction site, Sedo, for USD$14,000. Sedo also recently sold 9l.com for USD$10,099. Both 8l.com and 9l.com do not contain websites, as of yet.

Two letter domain names are rare and nearly all are currently registered; they are valuable because they are short and easy to remember.