Konstantinos Zournas, Author at OnlineDomain.com

ICANN reacts to U.S. decision to transfer stewardship of important Internet technical functions

ICANN Board Chair, Steve Crocker, reacts to U.S. decision to transfer stewardship of important Internet technical functions:

United States Announces Intent to Release ICANN and Internet DNS in September 2015

To support and enhance the multistakeholder model of Internet policymaking and governance, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced on Friday its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to …

Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: GoZone.com $15,000, How.co $13,890 (3-3-14 to 3-9-14)

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-3-14 to 3-9-14 were $1.907.184. This report includes some nice .co sales such as how.co for $13,890, eyecandy.co for $4,999 and reve.co …

Nominet celebrates the 25th birthday of the web

Almost half (46%) of Brits say best thing the web has given each of us is an ability to quickly find answers to our questions, according to a new poll from Nominet, the internet company …

4 more New gTLDs were delegated: .世界 (Chinese for “world/shijie”) and 3 from Public Interest Registry (PIR)

ICANN announced that 4 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 173 new gTLD strings. The 4 new gTLDs are: .世界 (xn--rhqv96g) – Chinese for “world/shijie”, .机构 (xn--nqv7f) – Chinese for “agencies/institutions”, .”संगठन …

Virtual, Inc. Extends Client Roster with Domain Name Association, FIDO Alliance, and Feldenkrais Guild of North America

Virtual, Inc. (http://www.virtualmgmt.com), a technology-focused association management company, has recently signed new clients in three distinctively different sectors: the Domain Name Association (DNA), the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, and the Feldenkrais Guild of North …

ICANN’s Draft Plan for the WHOIS Online Accuracy and Reporting System

ICANN just opened a comment period for the “Draft Implementation Plan for WHOIS Online Accuracy Reporting System”. ICANN plans to release a request for proposal (RFP) after the ICANN Singapore 2014 Meeting to solicit vendor …

For End-Users Only: New gTLD Domains With $1,500 Renewals

I did a post yesterday about .domains EAP sales with 10 domain names selling for $3,000+ each and 45 selling for $1,200+ each. There were also 4 domains that sold for more than $1000 that …

The solution to the “eco” problem: “Access denied”

I am watching the ICANN RSS feed and I got this article today: 13 March 2014 Sender’s Title: Chair Sender’s Affiliation: ICANN Board of Directors Issue: Proposal for implementing GAC advice concerning IGO acronyms File: …

CTO, ICANN, Nominet and Public Interest Registry to host first Commonwealth DNS Forum

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the UK domain name registry Nominet and Public Interest Registry, operators of the .ORG domain will jointly host the first Commonwealth …