Neustar®, Inc., a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Charles Gottdiener as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Gottdiener, who most recently was Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director at Providence Equity Partners, succeeds Lisa Hook, who served as President and Chief Executive…
Category: Domain News
ICE.COM $3.5m Sale One of 20 Biggest Reported Sales of all Time
The domain name ice.com sold for $3.5 million to Intercontinental Exchange, who currently use theice.com as their home online and where ice.com is currently redirecting. According to the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales of all time, a chart that has been compiled since 2003, it would be the 14th biggest sale ever…
Signet.com Tops Weekly Chart in $300,000 Sale
It was a big 6-figure sale of signet.com that topped the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 24 June, selling for $300,000 in a sale brokered by Garry Chernoff through Afternic Brokerage. The sale easily eclipsed the next biggest sale, ampli.ca, which sold for $50,000 through Sedo and then…
More Domain Industry Consolidation as CentralNic Acquires Key-Systems
The British-based CentralNic has acquired the parent company of the German Key-Systems, KeyDrive, for $35.8 million it was announced today. The acquisition will see the combined group become the 11th largest registrar globally by generic top level domain volume and will be among the top 5 registry service providers by number of registry clients. Key-Systems,…
Donuts Hurts .NEWS Credibility in Sale of .NEWS Domains To Clickbaiters and Science Deniers
Donuts this week announced the sale of 7 .news domain names to Webseed in a 6-figure deal that happened in 2017 with websites appearing for the domain names earlier this year. But has Donuts gained “a six-figure price” but just hurt the top level domain’s reputation by selling, and promoting the sale of, such prominent…