RightOfTheDot.com is running the premium domain auction at NamesCon 2016 in Las Vegas and the live portion of the auction is today: Monday, January 11, 2016 @ 2:00 PM PST!
What You Need to Know
The live auction is not on NameJet as the pre-bidding was. In order to allow in-house bidding and remote online bidding, while keeping bids in sync, a special software is needed to do this and not something NameJet has in place. If you plan on … Read the rest
Answers Corporation, owners of the popular website Answers.com, has acquired the premium generic domain name Roasted.com according to whois records.
Roasted.com was part of the domain name portfolio that GoDaddy acquired from Marchex in April 2015 in a $28 Million dollar purchase of over 200,000 domain names.
Early on after the Marchex deal, I had inquired about the Roasted.com domain name directly and was quoted $150,000 USD. I also tried to talk them down in price but had the strong … Read the rest
Automattic Inc., most known for WordPress, has acquired the generic domain name Jetpack.com for an undisclosed amount for its Jetpack plugin.
Automattic has been using the domain name Jetpack.me and Jetpack.com now redirects to the .me domain, at least for now.
Jetpack.com was owned by Jetpack Design for several years and on August 4, 2015 whois records switched to DigitalDNA, LLC who is a domain name broker.
On December 8, 2015 whois records switch to DNStination Inc. of MarkMonitor. Automattic … Read the rest
GoDaddy recently acquired Worldwide Media’s majority domain name portfolio announced on Monday and as of late last night, I started to detect that many, if not all of the portfolio are starting to move to GoDaddy!
It was mentioned in the press release that the domains would be available “immediately” but that isn’t always the case due to the nature of several things like transfers.
70,000 domain names takes a bit of time to move (mainly transfer) but name servers … Read the rest
