Flippa Acquires Domain Holdings
Flippa announced recently that it has acquired Domain Holdings Group, one of the leading domain name brokerage compenies.
You can read the press release after the jump :
"Flippa, the #1 marketplace in the world for buying and selling websites, domains, and apps today announced that it has acquired the leading outbound premium domain name brokerage company, Domain Holdings Group.
The combined Flippa and Domain Holdings Group entities are projected to hit $70m in sales over the next 12 months, rivaling the likes of Sedo and GoDaddy in aftermarket sales.
"When you take a dominant marketplace like Flippa.com and add the most respected outbound sales teams in the domain name space, you have a platform for selling digital assets that will be unrivaled in the market." said Flippa co-founder Mark Harbottle (also co-founder of 99designs.com).
Co-founded by John Ferber (who co-founded and sold Advertising.com to AOL in 2004 for $496 million), Domain Holdings Group has built a trusted reputation in domain name aftermarket sales, transacting over $30m last year alone.
Commenting on the acquisition today John said, "We're thrilled for the Domain Holdings team to join Flippa. We've been watching the Flippa marketplace go from strength-to-strength. The combination of these two companies will create a powerful sales platform for domain names and web sites that will be hard to beat."
What to Expect at ICANN 53: A Guide for Business Stakeholders
Speakers:
The ICANN global business engagement team and regional engagement team for Latin America and the Caribbean will be joined by representatives from the Commercial Stakeholder Group of the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization .
How to join:
You can listen to the webinar in English or Spanish, to RSVP and learn how to access the webinar please fill this form: goo.gl/forms/F0ahOAiGhk or send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. including your name, email address, affiliation, and country.
Topics:
- The upcoming ICANN 53 public meeting in Buenos Aires and sessions of interest,
- Opportunities to follow, participate and join work of business stakeholders in their various constituency groups and,
- The latest topics in the Internet domain name and addressing systems.
When: Monday, 1 June 2015
15:00-016:00 UTC
Where: Adobe Connect
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-05-20-en
posted by David Goldstein
Nearly 10% Of All New gTLD Registrations In Famous Four Media Managed Registries
[news release] Earlier today (20 May), the number of domain names in Famous Four Media registries surpassed half a million. This equates to nearly 10% of all domains registered under ICANN’s new gTLD program.
“We are delighted in rapid growth in the registries under our management” said Andy Churley, CMO of Famous Four Media, the registry management company for 16 new domain extensions. “The go-to-market approach FFM has adopted is clearly striking a chord with the public and to have reached 500,000 registrations in such a short time is a testament to the strong strategy and great staff at FFM.”
In 2013, ICANN the body that oversees domain names on the Internet embarked on a massive program of change opening up the domain name space to thousands of new domain endings. Web-addresses can now end in almost any series of letters.
“A great part of the success comes down to the domain endings we manage.” continued Churley “People love .PARTY, .SCIENCE and .WEBCAM in particular, these strings have a broad appeal and are words that work in many languages. We are just as excited about the domain endings we will be launching, in particular .DATE and .REVIEW, which we believe share a mass appeal. ”
Famous Four Media plans to launch 10 more domain extension in 2015 to augment the six domain endings (.BID, .TRADE,.WEBCAM, .SCIENCE, .CRICKET and of course .PARTY ) that are already available. Domain names can be registered through Famous Four Media’s extensive network of ICANN accredited registrars.
This FFM news release was sourced from:
www.famousfourmedia.com/2015/05/nearly-10-of-all-new-gtld-registrations-are-in-ffm-managed-registries/
posted by David Goldstein
Daily Domain Sales 05-19-2015 lead by VEO.com at $36,100 on NameJet
VEO.com sold for $36,100 on NameJet.
Top Domain Sales on May 19, 2015 are:
VEO.com – $36,100
1280.com – $26,100
PLink.com – $8,450
Ticket.io – €5,950
QQQ.cc – $5,700
LIWI.com – $4,950
Cabinet.ch – €4,000
WorldAir.com – $3,950
WholeEnergy.com – $3,188
Cognac.net – $3,050
Tamer.com – $3,000
InfinityMedia.com – $2,525
GenerationTech.com – $2,200
TomsWorld.com – $2,200
Voiture-Electrique.com – $2,160
Today.graphics – $2,000
MaxSuite.com – $2,000
LifeInDigits.com – $1,750
UnifiedSystems.com – $1,530
LifeInsuranceCompanies.com – $1,512
FreshEmpireBrand.com – $1,500
TheFreshEmpire.com – $1,500
Hugod.com – $1,500
BCRF.com – $1,480
CCLive.com – $1,270
WatchLease.com – $1,250
LondonLockSmith.com – $1,141
MyDDS.net – $1,100
FoodView.com – $1,054
Martiny.com – $1,001
5B4.com – $1,000
HGSL.com – $1,000
40E.com – $965
ANW.net – $909
903999.com – $870
TrainingSeminar.com – $830
PetroTank.com – $827
TampaBayWired.com – $790
CMNS.com – $785
VisitZimbabwe.com – $750
StrikeOne.com – $719
Cinnamon.net – $695
5352.net – $659
CB7.com – $645
NoreFunds.com – $635
CardDeck.com – $611
ORest.com – $585
GalleryCarteBlanche.com – $511
DKLN.com – $504
HowToBecomeAMillionaire.com – $500
Channong.com – $484
RetailAcademy.com – $474
AdvanceFurniture.com – $460
PerfectShopping.com – $455
ZombieGuide.com – $449
PusatJilbabModern.com – $439
AnnuityReports.com – $439
SlowPitchSoftBall.com – $431
PetRetreat.com – $415
EastGateAdvisors.com – $411
YouHuoYun.com – $401
Monolithics.com – $401
VBEZ.com – $400
FForex.com – $400
Marketplace-wise Sales
NameJet
VEO.com – $36,100
1280.com – $26,100
InfinityMedia.com – $2,525
5B4.com – $1,000
HGSL.com – $1,000
40E.com – $965
ANW.net – $909
TrainingSeminar.com – $830
VisitZimbabwe.com – $750
Cinnamon.net – $695
5352.net – $659
CardDeck.com – $611
ORest.com – $585
AnnuityReports.com – $439
SlowPitchSoftBall.com – $431
PetRetreat.com – $415
Monolithics.com – $401
DropCatch
PLink.com – $8,450
Voiture-Electrique.com – $2,160
CCLive.com – $1,270
FoodView.com – $1,054
903999.com – $870
PetroTank.com – $827
StrikeOne.com – $719
DKLN.com – $504
Channong.com – $484
RetailAcademy.com – $474
Sedo
Ticket.io – €5,950
QQQ.cc – $5,700
Cabinet.ch – €4,000
Today.graphics – $2,000
LifeInDigits.com – $1,750
FreshEmpireBrand.com – $1,500
TheFreshEmpire.com – $1,500
GoDaddy
LIWI.com – $4,950
WorldAir.com – $3,950
UnifiedSystems.com – $1,530
BCRF.com – $1,480
LondonLockSmith.com – $1,141
Martiny.com – $1,001
TampaBayWired.com – $790
CMNS.com – $785
NoreFunds.com – $635
GalleryCarteBlanche.com – $511
AdvanceFurniture.com – $460
PerfectShopping.com – $455
ZombieGuide.com – $449
PusatJilbabModern.com – $439
EastGateAdvisors.com – $411
YouHuoYun.com – $401
BuyDomains
WholeEnergy.com – $3,188
GenerationTech.com – $2,200
TomsWorld.com – $2,200
MaxSuite.com – $2,000
Hugod.com – $1,500
WatchLease.com – $1,250
MyDDS.net – $1,100
Flippa
Cognac.net – $3,050
Tamer.com – $3,000
LifeInsuranceCompanies.com – $1,512
CB7.com – $645
HowToBecomeAMillionaire.com – $500
VBEZ.com – $400
FForex.com – $400
Swedish Court Orders Seizure of Pirate Bay .SE Domains
A Swedish court has ordered .SE domain names used by The Pirate Bay be seized, but the prominent file sharing site has moved on thwarting the move already using other ccTLDs for their domains to keep the site going.
The Stockholm District Court ordered the seizure on Thursday reported TorrentFreak. But in another report, TorrentFreak noted The Pirate Bay has already moved on being now available using the .gs, .la, .vg, .am, .mn and .gd domain names.
"In 2013, Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad, the man behind the operation that took the site down in December, filed a motion targeting ThePirateBay.se (the site's main domain) and PirateBay.se (a lesser used alternative)", reported TorrentFreak.
The prosecutor alleged The Pirate Bay is an illegal operation with its domains "tools used by the site to infringe copyright. Noting that Punkt SE supplies and controls the domains and is therefore liable for their (mis)use, the domains should be dealt with in the same way that other criminal tools would be, Ingblad argued."
But the court did not uphold the prosecutor's claim against .SE. The registry notes though the two domain names will be forfeited from their domain owner and be transferred to the ownership of the Swedish state.
"We are pleased that the city court ruled in our favour and agreed with our argument that, in our role as the top-level domain administrator, it is not our responsibility to decide on what is or is not unlawful in specific cases" says Elisabeth Ekstrand, Senior Legal Counsel at .SE.
"In its ruling to the domain owner in this case, the city court decided that the right to these two domain names was to be forfeited," .SE said in a statement. "The domain names are also to be transferred to the state, something that has never previously been tried."
".SE will follow the judicial decision once it gains legal force, and over the next few weeks we will determine the actions to be taken in practical terms," says Elisabeth Ekstrand.
However, .SE also stated in their statement they believe "the forfeiture of a domain name is an ineffective method for combating online criminal activities. It is very easy to transfer one site to another top-level domain. And even if the domain were to be closed, the content would still be available via the Internet using both the IP number and via search engines."
written by David Goldstein
