The 2012 World report on IDNs deployment was presented during the UNESCO WSIS + 10 event in Paris on the 26th of February. “EURid-UNESCO World report on Internationalised Domain Names deployment 2012” is available and you …

Public Interest Registry, the .org registry, released a report revealing continued growth of the .ORG domain name. Some of the key findings of the report include the following: New .ORG registrations increased by 11.9 percent …

Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) reported yesterday its results for the quarter and the full year ended December 31, 2012. Full Year 2012 Consolidated Financial Results Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2012 was $138.3 million, …

ICM Registry announced on the 4th of February the sale of the domain name Mobile.xxx to a European mobile experts SGM Media GmbH, the “SexGoesMobile” company. The domain was sold for $160,000 and ICM Registry …

EURid, the .eu registry, announced today the results of the latest registrar satisfaction survey. The most important finding of the survey is that 94% of the registrars that took part were either satisfied or extremely …

Nominet announced today, 27 February 2013, that following its Board meeting yesterday, it will not proceeding with their original proposal on ‘direct.uk’ but will respond to feedback by looking at whether a revised proposal will …

ICANN published the Agenda for the “ICANN Special Board Meeting” that is being held on the 28th of February. Included in the “consent agenda” is the topic “Arab Center for Dispute Resolution’s Proposal to Serve …

Yesterday, February 26 2013, Afilias Limited send a notice to ICANN that they will be increasing the annual wholesale .INFO domain registry fee to $8.16 (including the ICANN fee), effective September 1, 2013, following the required …

Here is a list of my 4 figure domain name purchases at drop/expired auctions in 2012. I also buy domains from other venues like Sedo or Buy Domains and directly from the domain name owners …

Ron Paul split the original UDRP complaint for the domains RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org into 2 separate complaints, one for each domain name. Ron Paul originally filed a cybersquatting UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization …

ICANN released today the string similarity contention sets for New gTLD program. ICANN focused on the visually similar gTLD strings that resulted in only 2 “Non-Exact Match Contention Sets”: .hotels & .hoteis (small l is …

One 3 word domain and one 4 word domain lead this week’s Sedo sales report: VagaDeEmprego.com sells for 60k EUR and ThrillOfTheGrill.com for 30k USD. This week, 844 transactions (763 last week) took place on …

Siesta.com sold for $50,500 at Namejet today. The auction had 294 bids from 275 bidders. There were 10 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. The domain name was sold by YummyNames.com that is a Tucows company. …

ICM Registry announced on the 14th of February the sale of 25 Premium Domains in a deal worth $185,000 to IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg. ICM didn’t reveal the complete list of the domain names and the …