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22 November 2008
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The recent auction of .mobi premium domains conducted by Sedo had surprises again. The first was the change of reserve prices during the auction.
The second surprise (not for all) were the prices achieved by the 124 .mobi domains, sold by 206,379$ (a little more than what was paid by flowers.mobi) with an average 1,664$ per domain. The 10 most expensive domains were:
| Domain |
Winner bid |
| games.mobi |
44.000 $ |
| bank.mobi |
11.500 $ |
| vip.mobi |
10.099 $ |
| internet.mobi |
9.901 $ |
| blackjack.mobi |
9.700 $ |
| sexe.mobi |
9.253 $ |
| quotes.mobi |
5.333 $ |
| media.mobi |
5.099 $ |
| funds.mobi |
4.900 $ |
| shoes.mobi |
4.600 $ |
These results are very different from those obtained in the previous auction of .mobi premium domains where the 10 most expensive were:
| Domain |
Price |
Reserve |
Bids |
| music.mobi |
616.000 $ |
reached |
88 |
| games.mobi |
401.500 $ |
reached |
100 |
| sports.mobi |
101.000 $ |
reached |
33 |
| movies.mobi |
82.000 $ |
reached |
53 |
| game.mobi |
61.000 $ |
reached |
76 |
| juegos.mobi |
61.000 $ |
reached |
73 |
| photos.mobi |
51.000 $ |
reached |
37 |
| videos.mobi |
51.000 $ |
reached |
45 |
| sport.mobi |
51.000 $ |
reached |
51 |
| job.mobi |
43.600 $ |
reached |
38 |
The domain games.mobi which began its journey last year (in December), appears to have finished his odyssey, 11 months after it was awarded by a fraction (a 10.95%) of the price initially reached.
Below are two lists containing the full results of the auction conducted by Sedo, from 5 to November 12, 2008. They are ordered alphabetically. The first corresponds to the domains that reached the (dynamic) reserve price and the second contains those that not achieved it:
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2 September 2008
Estimated reading time: 0,39 minutes.
Domisfera has been monitoring the official stats provided by the Registry of .cn domains CNNIC. These stats have not been updated since June, but finally CNNIC has published the numbers for July:
On the other side, the German Registry of .dn domains Denic has published at the end of July 2008 had registered 12,148,809 .de domains.
Therefore China is already the world’s largest ccTLD, with 12,364,615 domains. We must remember that in December 2006 the situation was as follows:
1. Germany (.de): 10,323,544
2. United Kingdom (. uk): 5,463,972
3. Europe (. eu): 2,386,620
4. Netherlands (. nl): 2,158,200
5. China (. cn): 1,296,935
The promotion began on March 7, 2007 consisting of putting the new .cn domain registered to 1 yuan (0.13$) has proved its worth, with quarterly growth above 20%. In less than two years has multiplied almost x10 total domains registered and has dislodged the .de domains from the top, a place monopolized by the German ccTLD for many years.
The Chinese dragon has been sleeping very deeply but now is fully awake !
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13 July 2008
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Sierra Leone is a country of about 71,740 sq km and a population of 6 million. During the eighteenth century was an important center of slave trade. At the end of that century, the British decided to free slaves and return to Africa. After much discussion recently elected a territory that would later become known as Sierra Leone. Over the next 50 years, the British navy landed 70,000 slaves in Freetown. They independence in 1961, however between 1991 and 2001, there was a devastating civil war in the country, which plunged into poverty.
AFcom has been officially committed by the National Telecommunication Committee (NATCOM) in Sierra Leone to manage the dot SL.
These are the prices for new registrations and renewals for one .sl domain:
| Period |
Price |
|
| 1 year |
$50 |
|
| 2 years |
$100 |
|
| 3 years |
$141 |
Save $9 |
| 4 years |
$188 |
Save $12 |
| 5 years |
$220 |
Save $30 |
Private registrations are additional $7 per year per domain (By the way, they have not implemented the whois service yet). Three letters domains are premium domains - $250 registration fee will be added to the fees above. It’s possible to register domains under .sl, .com.sl, .org.sl and .net.sl.
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2 June 2008
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On February 7, 2008 dotMobi reported that he had contacted all the winners of the disastrous auctions conducted by Sedo December last year. According to dotMobi of more than 70 involved less than 10 rejected the proposal for allocation of premium domains.
By having the majority support of the community affected, dotMobi went ahead with this proposal which was basically to be paid the highest price reached by domains (in the original auction or extensions thereof) or nothing (domains would stay in dotMobi).
On February 13, 2008, Caroline Greer of dotMobi has clarified in relation to the question made by Domisfera that "As regards publishing a list of domains and final prices arising from the December auction / settlement, this is not something that dotMobi has done in the past and there are no plans to do so."
It has been more than 5 months after the conclusion of the auction and 3 after dotMobi began the allocation process. It is time to know what happened to these premium domains.
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28 April 2008
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Few days ago, an inhabitant of Aspe (Alicante, Spain) called Faustino Gomez, anticipating the Government of Spain, registered .es domains with the initials for the new ministries created by the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación mcei.es (Ministry of Science and Innovation), Trabajo e Inmigración mtei.es (Labour and Immigration), Ministerio Educación, Políticas Sociales y Deporte mepsd.es (Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sports) and Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio mict.es (Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade).
It is logical that the Government had registered the domain before making public the names of the Ministries. This is not the first time that something similar happens with issues of government (and this is all Domisfera can disclose…)
Now it turns out that the Government wants these domains and in many ways it has been noted that Faustino was only willing to lend them to the Spanish Government for four years in exchange for a transfer of water from the Ebro river to Valencia, Murcia and Alicante. Really this is not true, it’s an ironic joke of the owner towards the media. Although Faustino did not want to talk to the media and publicly give his version, Domisfera has been able to establish telephone communication with him and has confirmed that the real interest was to show the Spanish Government mismanagement and lack of foresight.
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17 April 2008
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Yun Ye was born in June 1972. He was only 32 years old when he sold his portfolio to Marchex.
He earned his bachelor’s degree at Brandeis University (Mass.), a very good (and expensive) institution. A complete course today costs between $20,595 and $56,855, health insurance apart. They have a whole building devoted to computer science and a curriculum, today’s quite attractive. He was there between 1992 and 1995, obtaining the graduate cum laude in Computing and Economics. He managed to be on Dean’s List each semester.
In 1995 went to study at the University of MaryLand, which also pointed to the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery), one of the leading associations in research, development and collaboration. In 1998 got the Master in Computer Science.
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10 April 2008
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Back in late January, Red.es (.es domains Registry) made public the distribution of the number of domains managed by Registrars, but without giving the name of any Registrar.
Domisfera in an independent and unofficial way has extracted from the total of 833,551 .es domains registered (until February 2008) the distribution of domains, including the names of the Registrars.
(The data are shown below are not 100% accurate because they have been collecting over the past month and Inter-Registrar domain transfers are continuous)
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7 April 2008
Estimated reading time: 1,45 minutes.
American Airlines, the largest airline in the world has launched a version of its site for mobile devices. Through aa.com you can reserve, cancel or check the status of flights and see the offers or promotions available.
American Airlines has an excellent domain in the king extension of Internet, widely known (receives 1.6 million hits daily), easy to remember and easy to type on a mobile device. Aa.mobi it is not possible because the minimum number of characters 3.
However, American Airlines obtained the domain americanairlines.mobi on October 2 last year through a lawsuit filed with the National Arbitration Forum (American Airlines, Inc. v. Michael Nakhleh). That ruling was recovered with a defensive character and not to use it, as evidenced by the fact that not even have bothered to be redirected to aa.com.
Certainly, the marketing people of dotMobi have lost a great opportunity to publicize the extension and was being better known and used by the general public (outside the industry domaning).
So Domisfera asked Mr. Pinkard Alan Brand from dotmobi about this case. When he came back from Easter holidays, his response (also published by himself in DomainNameWire) was:
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30 March 2008
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On the same day that Domain Name Wire published a email sent by VeriSign to the Registrars, the company announced in a press release that from the day October 1, 2008 the rate charged for the .com domains will rise from 6.42$ to 6.86$ ( + 6.85%) and .net will rise from 3.85$ to 4.23$ (+ 9.87%). 
According to VeriSign contracts with ICANN and the Department of Commerce of the United States is empowered to raise .com up to 7% and .net up to 10% each year. That was exactly the price increases implemented VeriSign last year. This year, VeriSign almost reached those figures.
In two years .com domains will move from 6$ to 6.86$ (+ 14.33%) and .net domains from 3.50$ to 4.23$ (+ 20.85%). While the year 2007 was the first since 1999 that prices rose VeriSign seems to be the trend in the coming years because the arguments to justify the rise this year are very similar to those of last year: to increase the capacity of the infrastructure DNS and to increase security against increasingly numerous and sophisticated cyber attacks.
As a counterpoint to these justifications, Karl Auerbach (a former board member of the ICANN), said last year at this time that VeriSign could spend less than 0.14$ in order to maintain a domain registration.
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26 March 2008
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The latest statistics domain Latinoamericann aiming to measure the impact of policies for the Information Society in the development of Latin American ccTLDs throw the following details until February 29, 2008.
In February ccTLDs that had a higher percentage growth were: Costa Rica .cr (6.72%), Peru .pe (5.33%) and Bolivia .bo (4.44%). The case of Costa Rica is explained by the announcement and the opening of registration of second-level domains. Peru continues to grow due to the opening of IDN domain name registration and second level that has already done in previous months. The case of Bolivia is linked to an aggressive marketing strategy in order to pay for the domain names in installments.
This month highlights the negative growth (-21.22%) .do domains from the Dominican Republic due to the cleansing of records unpaid. Domains .cu of Cuba remain at its usual line had decreased by 0.35%. The .sv domains of El Salvador having had a profound process of purification, have restarted a process of growth.
The largest increases in absolute values of the past month are for Argentina .ar (26,031), Brazil .br (9,854) and Mexico .mx (3,679). These positions are filled by the same ccTLDs that last month, with a higher increase in registered domains.
Latinoamericann could not obtain data from Trinidad and Tobago .tt or Barbados .bb. In the case of Barbados has been a process of redelegation before and while it was possible to perform a whois and view data registered domains this is no longer feasible under the new administration.
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