Recent High Dollar Price Quotes on DomainNameSales.com – 4/29/13

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Joel Williams .Tv Domain Names Hit Namejet.com; Celeb.tv; Comic.TV & More

About a month ago we told you that around 2,000 domain names owned by Joel Williams/Dream Sellers/In Stealth Mode had been frozen by a state court after certain parties claiming rights in and to those domain names filed for an injunction with a Tennessee Court.

At the time we noted that the parties filing the suit must have had an old list of domain since so many of the domains on the list were no longer owned by Williams including hundreds of domain were unregistered.

Other domains owned by Joel Williams which were not on the list provided by the Plaintiffs are are starting to hit NameJet.com auctions as pending delete domains.

The domain name registrar, Name.com was a huge player in the .TV extension.

Actually Name.com was catching expired .TV almost with such a high success rate, they were pretty much the only .TV backorder system.

However since Name.com was bought by Demand Media, Inc, (DMD) for $18 Million Dollars, all of the expired Name.com domains including the .TV domain names seem to be going to Namejet.com on an exclusive basis and they are hitting NameJet.com auctions.

There are a few prime .TV domain names now in auction at NameJet.com which were formerly owned by Williams or one of his companies including, Celeb.tv, Pussy.,tv, Comic.tv and Director.tv which all went into privacy in 2012 only to be dropped for non-renewal in 2013.

Some of these domains sold for a one time fee in the $x,xxx range once they were freed from the .Tv premium program where the annual renewal fees where in the $x,xxx range per year or higher.

Another sad tale in what appears to be a rags to riches to rags story.

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L'Oreal files UDRP Complaint over Elsève.com Domain Name

L'Oreal has recently filed a UDRP complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the domain name Elsève.com .  L'Oreal should expect the World Intellectual Property Organization  order the domain name to be transferred,considering the company owns the "Elsève" mark .  The World Intellectual Propoerty Organization will examine if the domain name is confusingly similar to the trademarked name.Moreover,it will examine if the owner of the disputed domain name has rights over it and if the domain is being used in bad faith.Elsève.com will be passed over to L'Oreal if it falls under all three of these stipulations.  The case is still pending compliance checks with the World Intellectual Property Organization .

.AL Rules Liberalised To Allow Domain Registrations By Foreign Companies

The policies for registering, renewing, deactivating and changing Whois information for .AL domain names is changing as of 1 May and will be performed by registrars authorised by the Albanian Electronic and Postal Communication Authority (AKEP). The new regulation sets 1 May as the date when the accreditation process will begin.

The new administrative procedures will also lead to a decrease in the official fees for registering new and renewing existing domain names.

The changes will also liberalise the registration of .al domains by allowing foreign companies to register domains provided they can prove they do business in their countries. Until now only to Albanian citizens and entities or foreign companies that had their subsidiaries in the Albanian territory could register .al domains.

Before the amendments, foreign companies were not entitled to register the ccTLDs in their own names, even if they successfully challenged the Albanian owners that had registered and/or used a domain name similar to theirs.

The background to the changes comes about from amendments introduced to the Regulation on the Registration and Administration of .al Domain Names and Subdomains on 23 January, 2013 by AKEP, the registry for .al. The amendments outlined administrative procedures and technical requirements for the domain name registration. The amendments will come into force on 1 May, 2013.

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ICANN opens its first hub office in Istanbul,Turkey

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN),announced that it will open its first hub office in Istanbul,Turkey .

You can read the press release after the jump :
"ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé today announced the organization will open its first hub office in Istanbul, Turkey.

The announcement marks a significant moment in the evolution of ICANN as it prepares to spread its operational functions across three global headquarters - Los Angeles (current location), Istanbul and Singapore.

“ICANN is becoming increasingly international in terms of our outlook, policies and the makeup of our staff. Now our global hub strategy will take our internationalism to an improved operational level,” said Chehadé. “These hub offices will become part of the core fabric of ICANN.”
The Istanbul hub office will be led by David Olive, ICANN’s Vice President for Policy Development. A number of current ICANN staff will relocate to Istanbul over the coming months and local staff also will be hired.

“We looked closely at a number of possible global locations,” said Fadi Chehadé. “We chose Istanbul because of the quality of its infrastructure, growing ICT sector, business-friendly environment and its close cultural and geographic proximity to Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.”
“ICANN provides efficient and considered management of the Internet’s Domain Name System, and today marks the latest step in the organization’s journey of extending its global influence,” said Binali Yildirim, Turkey’s Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications. “The ICANN European HUB is being established in Istanbul to act as an epicenter that will help shape Internet policy to deliver a more connected community across Europe, Middle East and Africa.”
ICANN currently is overseeing the implementation of more than 1,400 new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), representing one of the biggest changes to the Internet since its inception. The first wave of these domains will come online in the coming months. As a result of this massive expansion of the Domain Name System (DNS), ICANN too is expanding as it continues its mission to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet."

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First Quarter 2012 Domain Name Sales vs First Quarter 2013 Domain Name Sales

The total reported domain name sales across all exentions slippeed 3% in the first quarter of 2013 ,when a total of $21,8 in sales million was reported ,from the same quarter a year ago ,when a total of $22,4 million in sales was reported .
If in the first quarter of 2013 the biggest domain sale was Booker.com for $375,000 and all the six-figure reported domain sales added together came in at $1,83 million,in the same quarter a year ago,th biggest two domain sales added up to a total of $1,85 million .

First Quarter 2013 Domain Name Sales
1.Booker.com $375,000
2.Mojo.com $300,000
3.Apuestas.com $221,100
4.Estate.com $165,000
5.Mobile.xxx $160,000
6.Partners.com $125,000
7.Adib.com $117,000
8.Unit.com $115,000
9.Torrents.com $112,651
10.Banque.com $91,210
11. LawHelp.com $85,000
12.VagaDeEmprego.com $78,600
13.Medicine.org $75,000
14.ULive.com $75,000
15.CellphoneCases.com $75,000
16.DOA.com $74,400
17.Oar.com $69,000
18.WalkInTubs.com $69,000
19.Salledebain.com $60,000
20.FXX.com $60,000

First Quarter 2012 Domain Name Sales :
1.PersonalLoans.com $1,000,000
2.Silver.com $875,000
3.StockPhoto.com $250,000
4.BowlingBalls.com $225,000
5.Saturn.pl $189,930
6.CDN.net $185,000
7.NYE.com $175,500
8.LOV.com $160,000
9.Kboing.com $150,000
10.Frame.com $148,000
11.ULE.com $145,000
12.SOL.com $127,400
13.Channel.com $125,000
14.Airline.com $125,000
15.Flights.ca $120,000
16.eDiscovery.com $100,000
17.End.com $100,000
18.Let.com $100,000
19.Aili.com $90,000
20.ApartmentListings.com $87,500

Uniregistry, TLDH Partner To Run .country

Uniregistry & TLDH will take equal equity in joint venture to run .country

The two applicants for the top level domain name .country have entered into an agreement to partner, rather than fight, over .country.  Top Level Domain Holdings issued a press release this morning announcing the deal between its company and Frank Schilling’s company, Uniregistry.  This is the first publicly announced agreement that will resolve a contention set, as no other companies applied for .country.  Under the terms of the deal, both companies will get a 50% stake in a new company to which the .country contract with ICANN will be transferred.  Both TLDH and Uniregistry representatives have said they won’t participate in private auctions, one of the ways to resolve a contention set prior to an ICANN auction, due to concerns about antitrust violations.