by Chase Marshall :: Sedo Legal Staff

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently come under new scrutiny for its administration of the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) program. The program was expected to expand the number of top level domains from 22 to...

Name: Thies Lindenthal
Official Title: Product Manager - Domain Pricing
Office: Boston

Q: When did you join the Sedo team, and how did you discover Sedo?
A: I joined Sedo in August 2011 after launching the internet domain name index, IDNX, which is a research project based entirely on...

Sedo is excited to have leading registrar Domainmonster.com join the SedoMLS Premium network! As well as being our newest partner, Domainmonster.com is the fastest-growing British registrar to become part of SedoMLS Premium, which means additional exposure for your domains to end users looking for...

According to IDNX, the domain name price index, April experienced a decline of 2.1% in the domain market. Although this is a dip as compared the record high prices of March 2012, the domain market has experienced nearly 22% growth over the past six months, meaning that April’s figures are...

Sedo’s Domain Marketplace got off to a good start in 2012, with our strongest quarter since Q2 2011. A total of 10,133 domain transactions took place, at a sales value of $19.6m. The .com extension remained the most frequently sold, accounting for 44% of all sales, with .de in second place at...

Good news for domain investors: Leading financial organizations Bloomberg and Reuters have added IDNX, the first scientific grade price index for the domain market, to their websites. IDNX now stands alongside the Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and the FTSE and DAX stock indices among others, and its inclusion...

The SedoMLS Network is continuing to grow! After some exciting additions over the last few weeks, we are happy to welcome top Italian registrar Pop.it into the SedoMLS Premium family, proving once again that SedoMLS is the only truly global domain distribution network. Pop.it’s partnership...

Sedo’s Annual 2011 Domain Market Study, published last week, shows a healthy domain market. Increased average prices and the strength of newer TLDs like .co help the marketplace continue to grow, and the Market Study shows how end user behavior may be changing! With a total sales volume of...

We have just updated IDNX, the domain name price index, with new figures for the month of January. Showing the third consecutive month of growth, these numbers show a domain market that is continuing to trend upward in 2012. A growth of +3.2% in January closely parallels growth of IT industry (the...

As a domain parker, you may have seen Google’s announcement that they are closing their Google Adsense for Domains parking program. If you had domains parked using Adsense, you may be looking for an alternative, and as Sedo works closely with Google, our primary ad provider, switching your...

The Sedo team was excited to have another reason to celebrate during the past two weeks, as an international domain name publication voted us both best domain marketplace and parking provider. This was according to domain industry blog DomainNameWire.com, who holds an annual survey of their...

The Sedo team is excited to welcome leading Italian registrar GiDiNet into the SedoMLS family! As a SedoMLS Premium partner, GiDiNet now enables their customers to list any domain registered with them for sale via the SedoMLS network. This means faster sales and faster payments for sellers, and...

On February 1, 2012, Tobias Flaitz (previously of Hubert Burda Media in Munich, Germany) became the new CEO of Sedo Holding AG (including Sedo and its sister company, Affili.net). We sat down with Tobias to welcome him to the company and discuss his views on the domain industry and his new role at...

The expansion of SedoMLS, the world’s largest domain distribution network, is continuing! This week, top Spanish registrar DonDominio joined the SedoMLS network as a Premium partner. SedoMLS Premium partners distribute your domains to a global audience of millions of potential end user...

The first and largest Russian registrar, RU-CENTER , today became SedoMLS’ newest premium partner. RU-CENTER supports more than 30% of all .RU domains, and 42% of all .РФ domains. This new partnership continues a recent trend of global expansion for the SedoMLS Premium network,...

Prices have never been higher in the domain name market! This is according to IDNX, the first scientific grade price index for the domain market. IDNX—the internet domain name price index—has shown a consistent growth five months running, and the figures for March 2012 have broken...

Prices have never been higher in the domain name market! This is according to IDNX, the first scientific grade price index for the domain market. IDNX—the internet domain name price index—has shown a consistent growth five months running, and the figures for March 2012 have broken...