ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) requested from Verisign (the .com and .net registry operator) a contractual compliance audit for the .net TLD. With a letter dated 8 of January 2013 to ICANN, …

GasStations.com sold for $25,300 at Namejet in a public auction. The domain probably had a $25k reserve. 3 bidders went over the reserve. The auction had 276 bid from 217 bidders. The domain name Ambitious.com didn’t sell at …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. This week 2 more domains have been confirmed as sold (whois has been updated): Thai.xxx for $8,250 and Dolls.xxx …

Go Daddy made an announcement that there is a phishing attack underway that may affect some of it’s customers. I suggest as a general rule to not click on links inside of emails. Here is …

Artsy that is one of the largest online collections of contemporary art and is powered by The Art Genome Project announced the move of its service permanently to the domain name artsy.net. The move comes following …

Sedo published today quite an impressive list of recent .co domain name sales. Here is the list: fx.co 50,000 USD forex.co 40,000 USD sugar.co 30,000 USD rocket.co 16,000 USD childcare.co 14,000 USD cinema.co 10,000 EUR …

A three member Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name Guarani.com that a Brazilian company filed at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because there was nothing indicating that the Respondent in the US …

Afternic started sending minimum offer amounts, for domain listings, to Go Daddy. But Sedo has been doing this for 3 months now and it hasn’t helped anyone. Many domainers have removed their portfolios from Sedo. …

Major League Baseball (MLB) paid $1.2 million to buy the domain name Rockies.com from the Canadian The Rockies Tourism Authority that now uses the domain name canadianrockies.org. This sale was brokered by Venture Capital Group, …

This week, 670 transactions (932 in the last 2 weeks) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $.87 million ($1.38 in the last 2 weeks). Only 194 domains (330 in the last 2 …

After the success of the first .info premium auction last month, Afilias and Go daddy are running a new .info auction featuring 135 domain names that were reserved since 2001. The auction includes premium .info …

A research paper written in 2011 by members of the University of St.Gallen and Harvard argues that: “occasionally, the very characteristics that define ICANN’s model act as opposing forces and result in policy decisions that …

Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name MyCadillac.com that General Motors made at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because the domain was used offering PPC links to the “Cadillac” geographic term only …

Completing the selection of meeting sites for 2013, the ICANN Board approved Buenos Aires, Argentina, as the location of ICANN’s 48th public meeting, to be held 17-21 November 2013. The Board also approved Singapore, London …