Update – July ’21
In this month’s update we discuss the new drop catcher news, ask when auDA will perform the auDRP review and list recent sales, including Shift.com.au selling for $46,000!
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Author: Robert
What’s taking auDA so long to approve the new Drop Catcher?
What’s taking auDA so long to approve the new DropCatcher.com.au platform as a Registrar? DropCatcher.com.au can’t catch daily dropping domain names for you until they’ve become an auDA accredited registrar.
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TradingRoom.com.au sells for $15,000 on the Drops.
Today TradingRoom.com.au sold for $15,000 on the drop catcher aftermarket (the “drops”).
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Gold.com.au sells for “in the vicinity of $100k” to “Guzzini Pty Ltd”
Domainer can report that Gold.com.au has just sold for not-quite $100k, but “in the vicinity” to Guzzini Pty Ltd.
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Update – June ’21
New Drop Catcher update, auDA announce auDRP overview and recent domain name sales.
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Affirm, Inc. lose their attempt to hijack Affirm.com.au
Back in April, I wrote this article that outlined how Affirm Inc. decided that they deserved the highly generic Australian domain name Affirm.com.au for themselves, FOR NO COMPENSATION, instead of the existing owner, who had legitimately owned it for 15 years.
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Introducing… Backorder.com.au
Domainer would like to introduce Backorder.com.au to the domain investor community with a few free basic tools to help you navigate the Australian domain name landscape.
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I’ve been banned by Drop.com.au
Drop.com.au have just banned me from bidding on their platform (the one and only AU domain auction platform) within minutes of me posting my previous article, a May 2021 Update on the Australian domain industry.
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Update – May 2021
Uniregistry give up on Australian domain names. auDA Board minutes. New Drop Catcher update, and more…
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I thought we were supposed to get transparency on the drops?
I thought we were supposed to be able to see through the windows at Drop.com.au now?
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Affirm Inc. were founded in 2012. They’ve just filed an auDRP against Affirm.com.au that’s been owned since 2006.
Affirm Inc. recently engaged law firm DLA Piper, most notably Robynne Sanders and Adnan Meher, to file an auDRP in an attempt to try to rip the domain name away from the current owners, with no payment or compensation.
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