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Depending on the auction house, domain name registrar, and type of auction, a domain name may be locked for a period of time following the conclusion of an auction. This means a domain name cannot be transferred out of a registrar, and it may in fact be locked within the account and unable to be pushed to another account (again, this may depend on the registrar). Because I sometimes receive an inquiry during the auction lock period, I want to share a bit of advice with how I deal with this type of situation. Before responding to the inquiry, I will → Read MoreThe post How I Deal With A

City Brand Media has signed a deal with WorldReach Domains to develop TheMiddleEast.com and more than 220 additional national and international Geo Domain websites. The sites will be developed on CBM's custom platform that already includes 140 U.S. City(dot)com websites.

In one of the biggest - and no doubt highest valued - domain portfolio sales in history, Michael Berkens has sold the majority of his names, some 70,000 domains, to GoDaddy. Even so, Michael will remain a major presence in the domain world,

We’ve all been in negotiations that don’t end well. Our price is higher than the buyer was willing to spend, and we got stuck on our asking price. Perhaps today is a good day to rekindle the negotiation and offer a Cyber Monday deal for the domain name. People have come to expect great deals on Cyber Monday. My inbox has been full of companies offering special prices for Cyber Monday and even “Cyber Week” in some cases. Point is, people are looking for deals online today, and why not try to close some of your old leads. Now that → Read MoreThe post Offer a Cyber

NamesCon conference organizers are offering a special Black Friday deal on conference passes. To promote the special offer, NamesCon is using NamesCon.BlackFriday as a forwarder to the offer page within the conference website. The special deal is $599 for 2 tickets for the conference or $399 for 1 ticket to the conference (travel and hotel accommodations aren’t included obviously). The current list price for a conference pass seems to be $599.00 + a fee of $27.92, according to the EventBrite booking page. Conference organizers are also offering special pricing deals on meeting rooms nex

George Kirikos is reporting that LasVegas.com sold in 2005 in a deal valued at nearly $90 million over 35 years. The source of his tweet is a Vegas.com SEC filing from earlier this year that discusses the purchase agreement for LasVegas.com dating to 2005. $90 million https://t.co/3yiwcbH3ld deal. See Note 7 (p13) of SEC filing at https://t.co/zxQ0x7c86c for payment schedule from 2005 to 2040. — George Kirikos (@GeorgeKirikos) November 6, 2015 Here are some of the details from the SEC filing that spells out the value of this deal: “In June 2005, VEGAS.com, LLC entered into an agreement

Verisign has admitted it “sponsors” an analyst who has written more than a dozen articles singing the praises of .com and questioning the value of new gTLDs over the last few years. Zeus Kerravala is the founder and principal analyst at ZK Research. He writes a regular column for Network World called Network Intelligence. Last […]Related posts:Tuvalu not happy with VeriSign deal More details on the Tuvalu-VeriSign deal Could Verisign lose $3.3m .gov deal?

George Kirikos has uncovered many major domain sales by poring over SEC filings. Today he reported hitting the mother lode - a sale that could end up being worth an astounding $90 million - when he came across details of a 2005 deal involving LasVegas.com

The sale of Escrow.com we told you about last spring has now closed with Australia's Freelancer the new owner. It's business as usual at Escrow.com though - including an annual fundraiser that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for wounded veterans.

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Earlier today, I wrote an article sharing some thoughts about Zalmi Duchman’s Forbes article. In my opinion, the biggest takeaway was Duchman’s advice about being creative to find a deal that works for both parties. Creativity can go a long way in making a mutually beneficial deal happen. I want to discuss a type of deal that could benefit a startup that needs a particular domain name and a domain name owner: a lease with a purchase option. Essentially this allows a company to pay a monthly fee to use a domain name, and at any point in time, they → Read MoreThe post Creativ