Domain Name News

Pocket Domain dropped 700+ .info domains from its Alfena registrar a few weeks back. Most of thedomains were registered during the 2003-2009 period. Most of the domains were owned by PocketDomain that used to run a small backorder service calledDropCatcher.Info (or DropCatcher.org). PocketDomain runs a few registrars like Alfena and PocketDomain. …

Sedo rolled out some updates to the “Buyer Control Panel” but this feels more like a bug fix than an update. Sedo’s goal was to make buying a domain name easier, so they just made some updates to theirBuyer Control Panel. Customers now have a more intuitive interface …

This morning I reported that while the Greek National TV and Radio Organization (ERT) was shut down on June 11, 2013, the official ERT website ert.gr was moved to a new server on June 12, 2013 and was run by the employees protesting the …

This week, 746 transactions (690 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling$1.3 million ($1.08 last week). Only 251 domains (212 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains were either private sales or domains that sold for less than 700 USD/EUR/GBP. Over 43%(42% last week) of total sales were the …

As reported yesterday, the Greek National TV and Radio Organization (ERT) was shut down in just a few hours after the Greek government’s decision to cease operating under its present model. ERT, Elliniki Radiofonia Tileorasi, is/was the state broadcaster and …

Afilias has auctioned off about 500 premium .info domains in the past 6 months and a lot of these domains are popping up in auctions. Games.info just sold for $20,300 at Flippa. The same seller sold Vacation.info for $11,650 a few days …

ICANN ordered the bulk transfer of domain names from 4 de-accreditated registrars (C I Host, Central Registrar, Power Brand Center, and Dotted Ventures) to UK registrar Astutium Limited. ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of …

Effective immediately, the .CO Registry is listing its portfolio of two-character premium .CO domainnames for sale with GoDaddy.  The two-character .CO domain names are now available through GoDaddy’s Aftermarket, and soon-to-be via the domain availability check on the front of the website, making these premium digital assets widely available to GoDaddy’s customer …

The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on 4 June 2013 and adopted a resolution accepting nine items of the GAC‘s Beijing advice with respect to New gTLD applications. The Resolution addresses most though not all of the GAC‘s non-Safeguard Advice and does not address any of the Safeguard Advice in Annex …

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: favo.de 17,000 EUR …

On 1 July 2013, Croatia will join the European Union. As of that day, Croatian residents, organisations and companies will be able to register .eu domain names. Here you can find an updated version of the .eu Registration Policy that will go into …

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 applicationsis now 628 (was 514 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 600-700. There are 114 (some were from previous weeks) applications in this set …

On May 15th NameJet announced a partnership with Yummy Names (owned by Tucows) to auction an exclusive list of 97 premium domain names. These domains are available exclusively at NameJet. Here are the results of the second week domain name auctions: Sold domain names: mui.com …

This week, 690 transactions (623 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling$1.08 million ($1.19 last week). Only 212 domains (194 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains were either private sales or domains that sold for less than 700 USD/EUR/GBP. Over 42%(42% last week) of total sales were the …