ICANN intends to hold its third Public Meeting of 2015 in the Europe region. ICANN staff completed a thorough review of all proposed venues in Europe and finds the one in Dublin, Ireland to be …
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.Mail New gTLD Stopped By ICANN Indefinitely
The .Mail New gTLD was stopped by ICANN’s “Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework”. .Mail is the 3rd New gTLD after .Home and .Corp that was stopped by ICANN because of collisions. This is great news …
Read More »ICANN’s CEO, Fadi Chehadé, Term Extended For 2 Years – Annual Salary Increased To $900,000
ICANN’s current President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé, has been working with ICANN, first as an independent contractor and then as employee, for over two years. The initial term of his current Employment Agreement, absent extension, …
Read More »FBI Wants To Seize All The Pirate Bay Domains Starting With ThePirateBay.se
TorrentFreak.com did an article about how FBI is asking the Department of Homeland Security to seize all The Pirate Bay domain names. A Pirate Bay-related Freedom of Information request was sent to Homeland Security’s National …
Read More »Sedo sells 569 domains for $1.9 million: Lurk.com 18k GBP, Liberty.ch 21k Euro, Europe.org $23k
In the past week (July 21 to July 27), 569 (506 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 million ($1m last week). Only 179 (162 last week) domains from …
Read More »Latest Flippa Sales: Task.io $5,550, Dopy.com $2,500, Gum.org $1,951
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Task.io that sold for $5,550. This week’s top Flippa sales includes 1 domain name portfolio. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 5 domains of this …
Read More »New expiry date for .eu domain names as of 15 September 2014
On 15 September 2014, EURid will launch its new registration platform. Thereafter, newly registered .eu domain names will no longer expire at the end of the month but rather at the end of their registration …
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