ICANN intends to hold its third Public Meeting of 2015 in the Europe region. ICANN staff completed a thorough review of all proposed venues in Europe and finds the one in Dublin, Ireland to be …
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.Mail New gTLD Stopped By ICANN Indefinitely
The .Mail New gTLD was stopped by ICANN’s “Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework”. .Mail is the 3rd New gTLD after .Home and .Corp that was stopped by ICANN because of collisions. This is great news …
Read More »ICANN’s CEO, Fadi Chehadé, Term Extended For 2 Years – Annual Salary Increased To $900,000
ICANN’s current President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé, has been working with ICANN, first as an independent contractor and then as employee, for over two years. The initial term of his current Employment Agreement, absent extension, …
Read More »FBI Wants To Seize All The Pirate Bay Domains Starting With ThePirateBay.se
TorrentFreak.com did an article about how FBI is asking the Department of Homeland Security to seize all The Pirate Bay domain names. A Pirate Bay-related Freedom of Information request was sent to Homeland Security’s National …
Read More »Sedo sells 569 domains for $1.9 million: Lurk.com 18k GBP, Liberty.ch 21k Euro, Europe.org $23k
In the past week (July 21 to July 27), 569 (506 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 million ($1m last week). Only 179 (162 last week) domains from …
Read More »Latest Flippa Sales: Task.io $5,550, Dopy.com $2,500, Gum.org $1,951
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Task.io that sold for $5,550. This week’s top Flippa sales includes 1 domain name portfolio. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 5 domains of this …
Read More »New expiry date for .eu domain names as of 15 September 2014
On 15 September 2014, EURid will launch its new registration platform. Thereafter, newly registered .eu domain names will no longer expire at the end of the month but rather at the end of their registration …
Read More »Go Daddy’s New gTLD Domain Registration Bug Discovered By Customer
Last week I wrote about a Go Daddy customer that was complaining that he registered 2 .xyz domains in June and Go Daddy removed the 2 domains from his account in July and registered the …
Read More »Sedo 1H 2014 Report: New gTLD Domain Sold For Over $100k – 55% Of Sales Are .Com
Sedo today announced the results of its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study. An infographic depicting findings from the study is available at http://bit.ly/1rMCO82. During the first six months of 2014, Sedo powered 16,216 transactions …
Read More »Comedy Post By DomainGang.com Makes The News! (Jesus.Saves Sold For $2.4 Million)
It seems that a lot of people are confused by some of the DomainGang.com comedy posts and the proof is that a fake news article announcing the sale of the domain name Jesus.Saves for $2.4 …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .Reisen 2,262, .University 1,340, .Toys 1,320 and .Town 589
Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: Yesterday 30th of July 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general …
Read More »346 New gTLDs Have Been Delegated: .NGO, .LGBT, .NRA, .City, Green, .Navy, .Army, .Bio, .Host
I haven’t done this post since May and since then ICANN has announced that 87 New gTLDs have been delegated for a total of 346 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important …
Read More »Interlink Co., Ltd. Wins Community Priority Evaluation For .Osaka
ICANN published today the latest Community Priority Evaluation results. New gTLD Applicant Interlink Co., Ltd. prevailed in a community priority evaluation for the New gTLD .Osaka getting 15 out of the maximum 16 points. Osaka …
Read More »Google Starts Issuing Invites To Google Domains (1st Screen Shot)
Last month, Google announced it is getting into the domain name registration business through Google Domains and offered a form to sign up to be invited. Like countless other I submitted the form but I …
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