Chinese domain market sales : Shanghai losses at $220 billion

The Chinese market was shaken on Monday, marking the worst two day slide in 10 weeks for China’s stocks. The Shanghai Composite ended being $220 billion dollars “lighter” than Thursday, as the one year anniversary of the big stock market crash of 2015 looms closer. Domain investors in China appear to be saving their yuan […]

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Undeveloped : Domain auction extended by two weeks

Domaining Europe, the domain conference to be held in The Hague, The Netherlands, between May 29th and 31st, announced the extension of its auction by two weeks. Operated by Undeveloped, the premium domain auction will now end on June 14th. A large number of quality domain submissions, such as Estate.com, Textile.com & Multivitamins.com, and increased interest […]

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DNForum deal : Seller pushes the wrong domain at GoDaddy

A domain investor selling a group of domains, pushed a little extra gift to his buyer: an LLLL .com domain. The accidental push might have cost him at least $1,400 dollars – the average selling price of a “Chinese premium” domain nowadays. The sale must have happened months ago, as it completed on the now […]

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JUX .com : Formerly stolen domain has been reclaimed

The formerly stolen domain, JUX.com, has been returned to its legitimate owner, entrepreneur Mr. Chris Mismash. JUX.com was moved away from GoDaddy in February, without its owner’s authorization. Such domain theft incidents can take several weeks to resolve, and in this case the cybercriminal was a Chinese national, who moved it to the HiChina Registrar. […]

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Chinese domain sales : China officials sold your data

Big data is the new big money, and Chinese officials working for China’s statistics bureau apparently profited from selling chunks of it. According to a report by Bloomberg, the National Bureau of Statistics in China said 313 employees violated agency rules and have been asked to return 3.23 million yuan ($500,000 dollars) in fees that […]

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Chinese domain sales : Stock market trading evaporates

China’s stock market trading is going up in smoke. According to Bloomberg reports, the daily turnover on the Shanghai Stock Exchange was regularly topping 1 trillion yuan ($154 billion dollars) a year ago, but now the value of shares traded has fallen to 140.4 billion yuan. That’s a low seen only three times since October […]

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Brewski Bros : Domain brokerage that breaks all the rules

Dynamic domain brokers, Bruce Brewski and Bobby Brewski are launching yet another service from their domain brokerage outfit. Their newly launched Aggressive Domain Brokerage Unit (ADBU) aims at targeting domain buyers that have potential, but are not motivated to buy your domain names. “If you thought you’d sell your domains by asking buyers nicely, welcome […]

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SnoreFix.com : Trio of WIPO panelists sees the light!

We recently covered the outcome of the UDRP against the aged domain, KidsAndUs.com. In that case, the WIPO panelist mentioned that the domain’s registration predates that of a claimed mark by several years. It seems that a trio of WIPO panelists are also taking the same approach, in the UDRP against the domain SnoreFix.com. The […]

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ICANN warning : Moore’s Law affects gTLD domains!

Verisign, overlords of dot .com and dot .net, recently announced that there are now 314,000,000 domains, and almost 125 million are dot .com. Upon reviewing the latest statistics and extrapolating the data along an XYZ matrix, ICANN issued a warning to domain investors, titled “Moore’s Law and the gTLD future of domains.” “The current total […]

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Non-COM sightings : Artisan.Best in the real world

Ah, the wonderful wold of new gTLDs! It’s still perceived as a novelty by some “old school” domainers, but real world sightings of the new generic top level domains are increasing. We keep track of such “in the wild” sightings, some of which are submitted by our eagle-eyed readers. After dot .Church, it’s the turn […]

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ZAP.com : Included in a sale to close in July for $375,000 dollars

The three letter .com domain, ZAP.com, is currently in a pending sale status. Scheduled to close in July, ZAP.com will be included in a group of domains, with the sale priced at $375,000 dollars. Some great investigative reporting from domain investor, George Kirikos, who points to the Form 8-K filed with the US Securities and […]

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Chinese domain sales : Wangwenhua sells a bunch of chips

Chinese companies take a record 192 days to collect payment for their goods or services, from the moment they pay for the inputs. Corporations traded in Shanghai and Shenzhen are notoriously slow in this manner; the cash conversion ratio is up from 125 days, five years ago. Simply put, accounts receivable doesn’t do their job! […]

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