Under pressure, NameJet winner submits payment to claim domain

A couple of days ago we wrote how a NameJet auction winner placed the domain in question on different domain venues, such as CAX.com, DNForum etc. even though he had no control of it yet. Not paying and seeking buyers is the act of “selling hot air” and it’s definitely unethical. It seems that the […]

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Three letter dot com domain TCP.com sold for a ridiculously low sum

The domain name TCP.com was sold today for the ridiculously low price of $18,500 on a Sedo auction that attracted a handful of participants. This is an insanely great deal – assuming that the buyer will followup with payment – for a three letter dot .com registered in 1992; the era that predates the commercial […]

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How .XXX beat the Bush administration

For the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, the ICM Registry had to fight with both the conservative US governement and the religious right. The opposition to the now live .XXX TLD went as far as to create parody videos aimed directly at the ICM Registry CEO, Stuart Lawley – a self-made millionaire […]

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The first ICM Member account setup emails finally arrive

It took longer than the expected 24 hours but the first emails for setting up the required ICM Member account were finally sent out by the ICM Registry. The email looks like this: Subject: ICM Member Account Setup Dear [username]: Thank you for applying for .XXX domain name(s). Once you activate your .XXX Membership Account, […]

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38DD.com sells for $500,000 on Sedo

Sedo announced the biggest domain sale of this week; company spokesperson Kitty Nielson tweeted about the incredibly large sale of 38DD.com “With the help of our friends over at the ICM Registry that are well-connected with the adult entertainment industry, we managed to sell 38DD.com for half a million dollars”, said Kitty Nielson. The buyer […]

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Bob the plumber starts New Business afresh at Bob.XXX

Bob the plumber lost his seven year old domain to a cybersquatter – or an opportunist investor, if you prefer. The truth is, that Bob failed to renew his dot .com domain and it ended up being auctioned on GoDaddy’s TDNAM. It was sold for $750 but to Bob it was priceless. “I could not […]

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Disney holds Pearl Harbor dot com domain hostage for a decade!

Today’s date marks the 70th anniversary of the attack against the American fleet stationed in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. The day of infamy, December 7th, 1941 marked the official entry of the United States of America in World War II. That important and historic location in Hawaii returns a hefty 30 million results in […]

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Screenshots.com captures own press release draft!

The press release that went out this morning detailing the launch of Screenshots.com wasn’t the initial draft. Luckily, we caught a screenshot of it, using the valuable service of Screenshots.com itself and we’re able to share it with you today 😀 DomainTools, the only WHOIS tool that frustrated domainers really need in order to find […]

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Flippa doesn’t give a toss about Apple trademarks!

What’s wrong with this picture: a famous trademark that belongs to giant Apple, is being ignored by Australian domain aftermarket Flippa. Just like they did in September when some ignoramus listed a Microsoft-related domain on Flippa, the listing of iPhone-3gs.com is allowed to proceed. Flippa’s response to reports of the listing was that if and […]

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Flippa flop: How To Make Your Voice Deeper Today dot com

Poor Flippa quality control admins, if they ever got to get things right on the Australian domain marketplace, they’d need 25 hours on a given day. In November we disclosed how a “gem” of a typo was being sold as a “premium domain” on Flippa. Right as we thought nothing could top this off, there’s […]

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The numbers are out: 25 million .XXX registrations in 5 hours!

The numbers are out and they are absolutely staggering! The Dot .XXX Registry managed to complete 24,977,902 domain registrations of .XXX domains in half a day! “Not even dot .com seems to be an obstacle now,” said Hugh Joargun of the ICM Registry. “We are absolutely thrilled, we are having a margarita party, getting punch drunk […]

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Twitter enables hot linking of .XXX domains

As we pointed out yesterday, Twitter has been treating dot .XXX domain URLs as not linkable. But this has now changed and anyone who posts http://domain.xxx in Twitter will see their URL is linked. The ICM Registry was quick to resolve this issue which also affected Skype.

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