Domain Name News

I am sure that most people didn’t miss me or even noticed that I was not writing on my blog. I took some time off. Yeah. A lot of time off. Some because I wanted …

Fadi Chehadé and Steve Crocker officially opened the new Washington DC office located at 801 17th Street Northwest during a ribbon cutting ceremony on June 13. This office serves as ICANN’s North American Engagement Center. …

The ASO Address Council (AC) is pleased to announce that Mr Kuo Wei Wu has been re-elected to fill Seat 10 on the ICANN Board for a three-year term. Mr Wu’s term will start at the end of the …

ICANN has launched a Strategic Planning Portal. Community input is a vital element of ICANN and the new Portal further integrates the community’s feedback in shaping the future direction of ICANN and it’s work. This new website will allow interested individuals and organizations from around …

As HEXONET continues with the introduction of interesting new gTLD applicants, this week they wanted to highlight dotBerlin (.BERLIN). HEXONET had the opportunity to speak with Ms. Katrin Ohlmer at dotBerlin recently, which is considered …

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 …

The domain name JenniferAniston.com was returned toJennifer Aniston’s PR company PMK-HBH after being in a “Pending Renewal or Deletion” state for almost a year. The domain name, registered with Network Solutions, expired in July 2012 while owned by PMK-HBH Public Relations, a PRcompany based in Beverly Hills. The domain then entered …

AdSense started out offering only contextually-targeted text ads in 2003, and has evolved significantly since then. Click here to see a press release announcing AdSense back in 2003.Back then Google had a bout 100,000 advertisers using AdWords and this number …

Here are some of the most notable sales at Sedo during the past week. These are sales that were published after the latest Sedo report was released last Tuesday. Please find below the list of domain names that were sold for $5,000 or more: meaning.com 20,000 USD …

I wrote an article a few weeks back called “Keep your whois details current – Especially keep your adminemail domain registered!“. When I was writing that article I didn’t have a major registrar in mind. I thought that people …

The International Sugar Organization sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on the 29th of May saying that because if the International Organization for Standardization complaint to ICANN about the preventative protection for the acronyms of …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. So far 51 domain names have been removed from this list and have been sold or a sale is pending. This week 1 …

Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD announced the launch of pre-registration for .hostdomain names. .Host has received a prioritization number of 1096 and has not yet passed the initial evaluation by ICANN. .host is the new TLD created specifically for the …

Moniker’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Moniker network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access a number of Moniker user accounts. So Moniker is doing …