On August 6, the BW.com domain name was listed for sale on DNForum in the offers wanted section for domain names that have four characters or less. On August 12, the person who started the thread edited it, and the only thing remaining in the original post is the word “SOLD.”
As I wrote yesterday, Rightside had its first full day of public trading on the Nasdaq stock market on Monday under the NAME stock ticker. In celebration of this achievement, Name.com shared this funny video that I want to share with you.
Looks like everyone is happy about the company’s spin off. I agree with Ashley’s sentiment at the end of the video – the customer should always come first. The spinoff is a nice achievement but not an end point!
Domain industry veteran Dwayne Walker was hired by Rightside as Senior Vice President of Business Development. In this role, Dwayne will oversee all new business development opportunities across Rightside brands including eNom, Name.com, NameJet, and the Rightside Registry. With Rightside’s position in the market, this seems like an excellent opportunity for him.
Taryn Naidu shared the news with me, and spoke highly of Dwayne. “Dwayne will be heading up our BD efforts across the entire organization as we continue to develop the market for new TLDs,” Naidu informed me. “We’re excited to have him on board.”
If you’ve been to a domain conference or have an account at Domain Sponsor, you probably had the opportunity to
The MutualFunds.com domain name was the main attraction in the innagural Heritage Auctions (HA) domain auction held at the end of last year. Although MutualFunds.com was not sold during the live segment of the auction, HA’s Aron Meystedt announced that a deal had been reached after the close of the auction, and the domain name was sold in private for an undisclosed amount of money. MutualFunds.com had been owned by Internet entrepreneur Mark Ostrofsky, and it originally had a reserve price of $1 million.
I recently learned who the buyer of MutualFunds.com was, and I also learned the company acquired the singular MutualFund.com in a separate private transaction consummated around the same time. The acquirer is Paul Rubillo, founder of Dividend.com, and he teamed up with a company called Mitre Media on these two domain name acquisitions. According to Rubillo, the purchase prices are both private, but suffice to say the total spent was seven figures. He did tell me that MutualFunds.com was slightly more expensive than MutualFund.com though.
Here’s what Rubillo told me about these two acquisitions:
If you do many transactions at Escrow.com, it can be a bit cumbersome to find a specific historical closed transaction in your control panel. You’d have to scroll through many pages of transactions to find a specific transaction, as they are listed by date in your control panel. Some people have hundreds of pages of historical purchases and sales.
Escrow.com recently updated its control panel and it now allows users to search for specific transactions.Users can search through their escrow history using the transaction name, domain name that was bought or sold, or the email address of the counter party.
This is particularly helpful for people who have closed
Namecheap has been advocating for net neutrality for quite some time, and the company has been alerting customers and the public at large in a variety of ways. With the FCC’s comment deadline approaching, Namecheap launched a website on NetNeutrality.com to help advocate for this important issue.
At the present time, the website allows visitors to submit comments to the FCC before the end of the comment period. I would assume the website will continue to fight for net neutrality even after the comment period ends.
Net neutrality is an important issue, and I think the press release (published below) announcing the launch of the NetNeutrality.com website gives more details about this and about why Namecheap is involved in the fight. Visit NetNeutrality.com to leave your comment ASAP.
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