domainspace: Following activity in the .nz space

telstaclear.co.nz, telsraclear.co.nz and telstarclear.co.nz are all obvious misplelling... (more in the full post)



It's picture-perfect for art.co.nz
A month after the disappointment that the auction for motel.co.nz closed early, another short one-word domain is on the chopping block. This time though, a sale looks likely to proceed.

art.co.nz has met its reserve price on trademe and wit... (more in the full post)

motel.co.nz : will it drop?
There is just 1 week to go in what could be the most valuable .nz domain name to expire in recent times.

motel.co.nz has been registered since 1997 and has so far not been renewed by it's owners for the current period.

It's not ofte... (more in the full post)

Names.co.nz - sleek new domains marketplace
A new domain name marketplace owned by web development company On Company Ltd has been launched.

Names.co.nz offers over 1000 pre-registerd domain names for sale including a number of high quality names such as camera.co.nz, flights.co.nz, s... (more in the full post)

Harvey Norman win plural name
Harvey Norman Retailing Pty Limited have won a domain dispute over a typo of their company name, harveynormans.co.nz.

This case saw the owner of the name argue that their registration had been made on behalf of a Mr Harvey Normans in the UK ... (more in the full post)

UMBRO wins umbro.co.nz after 2nd time round
UMBRO International Ltd has won the transfer of umbro.co.nz from E-promote after their second attempt in the domain dispute resolution service.

The company attempted to gain control of their trademarked name back in October 2007 but the case... (more in the full post)

inlandrevenue.co.nz to be transferred to the Government
A decision was made recently by Hon Robert Fisher QC on behalf of the Dispute Resolution Service to order the transfer of inlandrevenue.co.nz to the Government.

The previous registrant, Portfolio Brains LLC of Reseda California, did not disp... (more in the full post)

Auction changes at Expired Domains
Commencing Monday 18th February, expireddomains.co.nz are implementing changes to their auction system for domain names which are pending release.

Auction close time extended to 00:15

"Due to member feedback we have extended the standard... (more in the full post)

TRAFFIC down under 2008
DNCalendar and TRAFFIC have reported that the domain name industry's premier conference T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is coming to Australia in 2008.

TRAFFIC down under will be held at the Sheraton Mirage Resort, Surfers Paradise from November 18 to Novemb... (more in the full post)

kx.co.nz - Deal of the week?
kx.co.nz was picked up on Expired Domains yesterday for only $147. That's the lowest price I've seen for a two letter .co.nz domain in a long time.

Ever since all the LL.co.nz domains were registered a couple of years back, prices for the... (more in the full post)

DRS policy review submissions close today
Following up on our earlier article about the DRS Policy Review, we would like to remind all parties interested in the .nz Dispute Resolution Service that submissions on the policy review close at midday today, Wednesday 13th February.

At th... (more in the full post)

The end of domain tasting?
One week ago there was a rumour in the blogosphere that Google would no longer allow domain names less than five days old to be monetised using Google Adsense for Domains. Just a few days later ICANN announced that they are reviewing a proposal to c... (more in the full post)

ExpiredDomains trumped again - $3600 missed opportunity
Banking.co.nz was yesterday's big event in the deleted domains drop. Bids on ExpiredDomains had remained relatively low until one hour before the close then they exploded up to $3682. But the domain was scooped up by DiscountDomains on the drop with... (more in the full post)

Trademe auctions - reserve prices not met
Two Trademe domain name auctions closed with bids today but the auctions didn't result in sales.

nzcoastalproperty.co.nz (+ the plural of the domain) received 8 bids up to $1550 but was well short of the $4000 reserve price.

funkyfi... (more in the full post)

.nz aftermarket preview, week to 26-Jan-08
Expiring domains

No big ones anticipated this week.

Watchlist: places.co.nz, closes sat-26

TradeMe

What's hot?

* nzcoastalproperty.co.nz

- auction closes on wed-23, bids currently up to $1530, reserve not met.

HotDomains opens for business
A new domains listing service has opened for business in the somewhat fragmented New Zealand domains aftermarket.

hotdomains.co.nz was started by one of the bigger players in the .nz secondary domains space and allows other domainers to offe... (more in the full post)

20% growth in .nz domains over 2007
The .nz domain space contained 314053 registered domain names at the end of 2007, compared to 261283 domains at the end of 2006, giving a growth rate of about 20.2% over the course of the year.

The growth rate has slowed since the 24.5% ache... (more in the full post)

Trade Me Domains - plenty of listings, not many offers
After a quiet couple of weeks over the Christmas/New year period it seems people are back at their computers and ready to trade again.

TradeMe's domain names section has jumped up from just a couple of listings to around 20 over the last f... (more in the full post)

DomainTalk back up, but where's the beef?
NZ's main (only?) domaining forum has been offline for the last two or three weeks. I assumed that the owner must have been running the forum from his home computer and had switched it off when going on holiday for the summer.

Today I notice... (more in the full post)

Contractors.co.nz bid up high but snatched elsewhere
Bidding on yesterday's top releasing domain name, contractors.co.nz, had reached over $2000 on ExpiredDomains but they were unable to capture it.

The official highest bid was $2122.00 but bidding had gone higher - assumably the auction winne... (more in the full post)

Policy review of the NZ Domain Dispute Resolution Service
The .nz Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) has been in effect for about a year and a half now and over that time 90 valid complaints were received whereby 26 proceeded to an expert determination and 21 of those resulted in a decision to transfer or can... (more in the full post)

Keeping .nz running
So who are the parties responsible for keeping the .nz domain space up an running smoothly?

InternetNZ owns the .nz domain name registry and manages the .nz domain name system through the Domain Name Commission.

The Domain Name Com... (more in the full post)

What can I say? Welcome to domainspace!
What's up with .nz ? Search for domains blog nz and a few bits and pieces come up but not that much really.

nznews.org.nz used to be great but news has dropped down to a trickle these days. internetnz.net.nz ok, well at least it's something. Hey... (more in the full post)