The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on 4 June 2013 and adopted a resolution accepting nine items of the GAC‘s Beijing advice with respect to New gTLD applications. The Resolution addresses most though not all of the GAC‘s non-Safeguard Advice and does not address any of the Safeguard Advice in Annex …

Here are some of the most notable sales at Sedo during the past week. These are sales that were published after the latest Sedo report was released last Tuesday. Please find below the list of domain names that were sold for $5,000 or more: favo.de 17,000 EUR …

On 1 July 2013, Croatia will join the European Union. As of that day, Croatian residents, organisations and companies will be able to register .eu domain names. Here you can find an updated version of the .eu Registration Policy that will go into …

The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 628 (was 514 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 600-700. There are 114 (some were from previous weeks) applications in this set …

On May 15th NameJet announced a partnership with Yummy Names (owned by Tucows) to auction an exclusive list of 97 premium domain names. These domains are available exclusively at NameJet. Here are the results of the second week domain name auctions: Sold domain names: mui.com …

This week, 690 transactions (623 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling$1.08 million ($1.19 last week). Only 212 domains (194 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains were either private sales or domains that sold for less than 700 USD/EUR/GBP. Over 42%(42% last week) of total sales were the …

Domain Holdings is looking to hire domain name broker. Domain Holdings is a rapidly growing company located in Delray Beach, FL, steps away from the Atlantic Ocean and on historic Atlantic Avenue.Domain Holdings is currently selling domain names like: Zeal.com Restaurants.com Tax.com Israel.com Ear.org RadioStation Veneer.com Finland.com Duel.com Televisions.com Voucher.com …

ICANN’s president Fadi Chehadé announced some organizational changes that will be taking place at the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, and which are part of Fadi Chehadé’s desire to increase ICANN’s focus on management …

Go Daddy sold 41,786 domains in May 2013. That is a bit less than the 39,448 domains that were sold in April. 57% (52% in April) of the sales were from auctions, 41% (46% in April) of the sales were from Buy Now listings and 2% (2% …

ICANN is immediately seeking expressions of interest for leadership roles in the 2014 NominatingCommittee (NomCom) – that of the 2014 NomCom Chair and Chair-Elect. ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) received largest number of applicants since 2003. In October 2012 the ICANN Board resolved that “…the Board adopts the recommendation of the BGC and hereby appoints …

The 2013 Nominating Committee application period closed on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 23:59 UTC. At the deadline, the NomCom had received 110 Statements of Interest, more than in any one year after 2003, when …

Kuek Yu-Chuang, a leading executive in technology policy development has been named Vice President for Global Stakeholder Engagement for the Asia Region. He will assume the role on August 1st, 2013. Kuek has served most recently as a Senior Director for …

Sedo partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 158 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. Each name was listed with a low 1-99 USD reserve. The auctions ended on May 5 2013. The list included domains with German, French and Spanish terms such as wein.info, …

Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR) published the DomainWire Stat Reportfor May 2013 that is CENTR’s biannual publication covering basic domain name statistics with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code Top Level …