A few days back I wrote how I almost lost my blog while it was hosted on WordPress hosting at Go Daddy. I was lucky and got all my files, and within a few hours …
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.biz 10% price increase coming on September 1st 2013
Today, February 22 2013, Neustar Inc. announced to all of the .biz accredited registrars and ICANN that they will be increasing the annual wholesale .BIZ domain registry fee, effective September 1, 2013, following the required …
Read More »ICM Registry sells 3 .xxx domains including Vids.xxx for $10,230
ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. So far 54 domain names have been removed from this list and have been sold or a sale is …
Read More »DomainNameSales.com (Internet Traffic) New Escrow.com Intergration
DomainNameSales.com has added a new “Escrow Integration” tab in the “Settings” section at Internet Traffic accounts. This allows DNS to integrate with Escrow.com for quicker, easier closing with your buyers. The New “Escrow Integration” tab …
Read More »ICANN Terminates “Bargin Register” Registrar Accreditation After Failing to Keep Accurate Whois
ICANN sent a notice of termination of registrar accreditation agreement for the registrar Bargin Register, Inc. on the 20th of February 2013. Bargin Register, Inc.’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names …
Read More »Pre-Beijing 46 “ICANN Policy Update” Webinar
ICANN meetings are held three times each year in different regions of the globe to enable attendees from around the world to participate in person. ICANN 46 is being held on 7-11 April 2013 at …
Read More »ICANN Publishes Instructions for Governments to Request Objection Funding
ICANN has released instructions and a request form for eligible governmental entities to request funding for filing objections. The Government Objection Funding Instructions provides the following: Governmental entity eligibility criteria; Instructions to complete the objection …
Read More »101domain.com Joins SedoMLS Premium
101domain.com just joined the SedoMLS Premium network. Sedo added the California based registrar continueing the SedoMLS expansion after Sedo adding Asian registrar Net-Chinese, Chinese Registrar 66.cn and Russian Reg.ru in the past couple of months. …
Read More »ICANN Appoints The National Arbitration Forum As The First URS Provider
The National Arbitration Forum has secured the first appointment by ICANN to administer the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS). FORUM submitted an outstanding proposal demonstrating how it would meet all requirements presented in the RFI …
Read More ».ME infographic: fastest-growing domain name in Europe
.me is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Montenegro. The .me top level domain replaced the .yu (Yugoslavia) and .cg.yu domains previously used by Serbia and Montenegro. The .me registry is operated by …
Read More »eDoctor.com sells for $43,310 at Namejet – GlaxoSmithKline let the domain expire
eDoctor.com sold for $43,310 at Namejet in a deleted domain auction. The auction had 261 bids from 199 bidders. There were 6 bidders with a $10k bid or higher and 3 bidders with a $40k bid or …
Read More »How I almost lost my blog
On Sunday night I went to write a post on my OnlineDomain.com WordPress blog only to find a blank white page with a “pageok” written on it. That was not OK by any measure! My …
Read More »Sedo sells 763 domains worth $1.2 million: Partners.com sells for 125k USD and Banque.com for 68k Euro- Week 12/2-18/2 2013
This week, 763 transactions (800 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million ($1.57 last week). Only 215 domains (211 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …
Read More »Demand Media Reports Q4 and 2012 Results:Revenue up 17%, Registrar Revenue up 12%
Demand Media Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2012 Results Record Fourth Quarter and 2012 Revenue and Revenue ex-TAC Q4 and 2012 Adj. EBITDAGrowth Each Exceed 20% to $29.4M and $103.4M Q4 and 2012 Adj. EPS …
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