The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) send a letter to ICANN on the 13th of May 2013 regarding the blocking of the term “ISO” within gTLDs for the International Sugar Organization. The International Organization for Standardization …

As of 28 May 2013, 1 more ICANN accredited registrar is in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Registrar: AsiaRegister, Inc. (IANA ID#1084) Address: 11/F., …

Last week I forgot to do the Sedo sales report. Here it is: This week, 799 transactions (677 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.26 million ($1.15 last week). Only 256 domains (199 last week) were …

.GD, .TC and .VG TLDS registrations and transfers are back online and available to the public. .gd is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Grenada, .vg is ccTLD for the British Virgin Islands and .tc is the ccTLD for Turks …

After the first 2 GoDaddy/Afilias auctions (See here the results of the 1st .info auction and the results of the 2nd .info auction) and the Namejet/Afilias auction, the next batch of premium .info domains moves once again to a …

Flooding the domain name auctions, even if the domains are of top quality, will never produce the best results and the highest prices. These auctions will probably get the highest reseller prices at best. When …

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 applications is now 433. ICANN released Initial …

Aftermarket.com, a domain name marketplace, announced that it will start offering domain name parking as well as being able to sell domains. By parking your domains on the Aftermarket nameservers, Aftermarket claims that you will …

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 …

Afternic announced their partnership with Directi, the largest domain registrar in Asia and seventh-largest registrar in the world. Directi will join the Afternic reseller network as a Premium Partner, incorporating Afternic’s vast inventory of premium domains …

Afilias has auctioned off 300+ premium .info domains in the past 6 months and lately a lot of these domains are popping up in auctions or sales reports. I get a lot of questions from …

In the GAC Beijing Communiqué [PDF, 156 KB], the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) issued advice to the ICANN Board of Directors regarding New gTLD applications. My initial response was that this advice will derail the whole process. I don’t …

ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top level domain (TLD) for online adult entertainment, announced today that they have struck a deal with one of the most recognized companies in the online adult …

Both UDRP complaints for the domain names RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org were denied today at the WIPO. The full decisions have not been published yet. More details on a post when the decisions are available to the …