Aussie honesty: Fabulous increases prices but only for .net and .org

Australian domain registrar, Fabulous.com, announced that on July 1st the prices go up for registrations and renewals. The reason: both Verisign and PIR, managers of .com/.net and .org TLDs respectively, are making use of their contracts that call for a 7% annual increase. Unlike some other domain registrars, however, Fabulous.com is not raising prices for [...]

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Flippa CEO Dave Slutzkin voted as Top Aussie by The Weekend edition of Australian Magazine

The Weekend Australian Magazine, Australia’s top lifestyle and gossip newspaper insert for single women aged 29 – 59, has announced its much-coveted Top From Down Under awards. Honoring the domainer and entrepreneur community, Flippa CEO Dave Slutzkin won the Top Aussie Man category, with a score of 96.5% at a readership poll. “Crikey, it’s such [...]

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Flippa Commodities: New auction market opens with domainer-owned 177-ounce gold nugget!

Flippa – the domain and web site auction venue from Down Under – is breaking new ground Friday, with the introduction of Flippa Commodities. “We’re about to bridge into the market that most domain investors are often curious about,” said the Flippa CEO, Dave Slutzkin. “Gold, silver, oil and vegemite, the four essential elements abundant [...]

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FreeDrive.com sold for $30,000 – Largest recent sale on DNForum

DNForum – the top forum for domain professionals – can now boast the highest domain sale in recent memory, in a domainer forum. The domain name, FreeDrive.com and its associated content, has just been sold for $30,000 to a domain investor from Australia. In an era that looks down upon file-sharing web sites, such as [...]

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Domainer from Down Under puts his organ back up for sale

Aussie domainer, Wayne, could not have been happier when he sold his domain name, organ.com in early June. Alas, the five figure sale did not materialize, as the buyer walked out of the deal and did not pay for the 17 year old domain. “Failed to settle“, said Wayne, who is now listing his organ [...]

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Domainer sells his organ – The money was right!

Wayne, a domainer from Down Under, has announced the satisfactory sale of his premium domain, Organ.com Registered in 1995, organ.com was listed on Flippa for several days with a BIN of $70,000; the domain received a high bid of $35,000 and five bids. Among the comments left in that auction, some were characteristically uneducated, challenging [...]

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Australian owner of CreditCard.net snatches CreditCard.net.au in record pricing

Back in September we broke the news of Australian investor Roland B. Bleyer who acquired the domain name CreditCard.net for an astonishing $138,000. The Australian investor and portal developer has managed to set another record – in Australia this time – with the acquisition of CreditCard.net.au Roland B. Bleyer, who operates financial product portals CreditCard.com.au [...]

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Exclusive: The remarkable story behind the $138,000 sale of CreditCard.net

The credit market is still healthy in far-away Australia, as the remarkable sale of CreditCard.net proves. The new owner of CreditCard.net, Roland B. Bleyer, is a partner of Credit World Australia – a credit card portal specializing in affiliate offers. The seller, Yinan Wang, is no longer working as an active full-time domainer and webmaster [...]

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Michael Gilmour’s blog attacked by DDoS – Day 2

ParkLogic – the brainchild of Australian domain entrepreneur Michael Gilmour – is up today, unlike his personal blog at http://whizzbangsblog.com As Michael explained yesterday at his blog, ParkLogic has been under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that forced him to temporarily switch the corporate web site off in order to inform everyone about [...]

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ParkLogic.com gets hammered by distributed denial of service attack

It seems that ParkLogic.com is currently down. The domain monetization service, provided by ParkLogic and Australian domain entrepreneur Michael Gilmour is being involved in a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). Park Logic recently announced a strategic partnership with DNForum, according to this press release. Michael Gilmour is the first person we met and conversed [...]

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Aboriginal Domainer owner of Australia’s top domain portfolio

Having spent the best part of the past decade hidden in the bushland of the Australian Outback, Aboriginal domainer Birdari Umakulong owns a surprising portfolio of domain names. Birdari Umakulong – or Birdman, as his friends call him – owns a domain portfolio consisting of roughly 10,000 quality .co.au domains, something that not even the [...]

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