Car rental company demands typo of National.com, a domain it doesn’t even own. Vanguard Trademark Holdings, which owns the National car rental brand, has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against the domain name Natiional.com. The company filed a UDRP against the domain name already. It lost that case in June. On the same day it [...]

12 hours left to take this year’s domain industry survey. Time is running out to take the seventh annual Domain Name Wire survey. The survey, which asks users to answer questions about domain name registrars, domain parking, and expired domains, concludes January 31. Results will be published in February. Participants from 47 countries have already [...]

Sedo, today announced a new partnership with Go Daddy. Domains that are listed at Sedo with Buy Now prices are now available to Go Daddy customers through the SedoMLS Network. This partnership between two industry-leading companies gives domain investors the ability to distribute their domains at Go Daddy, and end users the chance to purchase [...]

According to DomainTools.com, a provider of domain name research and whois information, the number of .com domains under management by the registry has eclipsed 100 million domains. In a statement issued earlier today DomainTools claims that through their research they “calculated the current total of domains managed by Verisign to be over 100.2 million” DomainTools’ [...]

Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends today. At the time of this post, 53 out of the listed 71 domains have received bids. The auction ends today (Jan 26) at noon Eastern Time. Domain Current Bid Price Range # of Bids received Bid now zimbabwe.com 45,000 USD 25,000 – 49,999 USD 16 Continue channel.com 41,000 USD [...]

Sedo today announced an exclusive auction of premium .ME domain names. The company has successfully brokered the sale of more than 1,000 .ME domain names, totaling nearly two million U.S. dollars, including such premier names as Business.Me for €40,000, and online meeting platform Join.Me for $45,000. Global brands such as WordPress (wp.me), Facebook (FB.Me), Porsche [...]

As Francois from Domaining.com reports, his blogger newsletter special to celebrate the beginning of 2012 sold 9 domain names to 5 buyers. A 6th buyer did not follow through on his payment for the 10th name. The sales were: GoldBangles.com … $7,000 Winy.com … $3,900 PartyAccessories.com … $3,000 MarketingService.com … $3,000 DesignerPens.com … $899 Mung.com [...]

SOPA and PIPA are the hot topic today but according to Digital Trends writer Andrew Couts PIPA may be closer to passing as time for a vote draws near. PIPA, on the other hand, is still very much alive. It has already passed through committee hearings — a step further than SOPA ever took. And Senate Majority Leader [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard by now about the online protest with sites like Wikipedia, Reddit.com and thousands of other sites going “dark” to protest the proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Even Google blacked out their logo today in protest. If you haven’t noticed this maybe you noticed that your favorite registrar also joined in the [...]

The new year started off with a number of reportable sales – here are the top 10: dudu.com ($1,000,000 @Sedo) mcommerce.com ($50,000 @Afternic) juif.com ($35,000 @Sedo) uvideos.com ($22,000 @DomainMarket.com) action.fr ($20,000 @Sedo) bequiet.com ($15,000 @Sedo)     Shaparak.com ($15,000 @DomainMarket.com) shoutit.com ($12,999 @Sedo) kompany.co.uk ($12,000 @Sedo) bigbags.com ($11,050 @Afternic) zahnarztpraxis.com ($10,000 @Sedo)       dema.com ($10,000 @Afternic) See the full report after the jump shoutit.com [...]