Roundup: this stretch in the Domain Name Business
It was another exciting week in the domain name industry. Here’s a look back.
Domain Registry of America may finally get cut off from ICANN. The notorious firm that sends misleading domain renewal notices to domain owners has been suspended by ICANN and a full termination may be coming.
Sedo is planning a big fresh TLD booth at September’s DMEXCO conference in Germany. Interested fresh TLD firms are invited to reach out to the firm regarding participating.
Amazon and Google settled some fresh TLD contention sets this stretch. The two firms settled their differences over .talk, .you, .play, .dev and .drive. Amazon.com let .group go to Donuts in a 5-way race.
.Tokyo launched on Tuesday and got almost 10,000 domain name registrations. There were some other strong starts this stretch, and some slow out of the gate.
Dealhunter A/S of Denmark has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over DealHunter.com. Other RDNH’s this stretch include SinVodka.com and CityBank.com.
Both Neustar and Verisign noted earnings this stretch. This was the first quarter in which Neustar’s numbers included .Co. Verisign had a slow quarter, stock investors like its forecast.
Heritage Auctions held a successful domain name auction on Thursday, grossing $774k. Top sales include Digital.com at $373,500 and Cute.com at $230,000. The downside was that the highly anticipated auction for Bitcoins.com was removed for legal reasons.
Webfair Virtual, an online tradeshow, was held on Thursday. It was frustrating to attend, but apparently if you got past the initial frustration it was worth the time.
Google is registering “Music Key“ domain names. Is this the name of its fresh YouTube music service?
There were four public six figure domain name sales this stretch, DNJournal notes.
Disgraced celebrity chef Paula Deen was among the end users that bought domain names the prior week at Sedo.
