Domain Name News

Go Daddy sold 41,786 domains in May 2013. That is a bit less than the 39,448 domains that were sold in April. 57% (52% in April) of the sales were from auctions, 41% (46% in April) of the sales were from Buy Now listings and 2% (2% …

ICANN is immediately seeking expressions of interest for leadership roles in the 2014 NominatingCommittee (NomCom) – that of the 2014 NomCom Chair and Chair-Elect. ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) received largest number of applicants since 2003. In October 2012 the ICANN Board resolved that “…the Board adopts the recommendation of the BGC and hereby appoints …

The 2013 Nominating Committee application period closed on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 23:59 UTC. At the deadline, the NomCom had received 110 Statements of Interest, more than in any one year after 2003, when …

Kuek Yu-Chuang, a leading executive in technology policy development has been named Vice President for Global Stakeholder Engagement for the Asia Region. He will assume the role on August 1st, 2013. Kuek has served most recently as a Senior Director for …

Sedo partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 158 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. Each name was listed with a low 1-99 USD reserve. The auctions ended on May 5 2013. The list included domains with German, French and Spanish terms such as wein.info, …

Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR) published the DomainWire Stat Reportfor May 2013 that is CENTR’s biannual publication covering basic domain name statistics with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code Top Level …

Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. and NCC Group have been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD registry operators. All new gTLD registry operators will be required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registrationdata through one of the approved data escrow service …

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 514 (was 433 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 500-600. There are 81 applications in this set that received a passing …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. So far 57 domain names have been removed from this list and have been sold or a sale is pending. This week 2 …

Growth in the number of .nl domain names slowed considerably in 2012 and SIDN’s annual report says that this happened because there isn’t as much money to be made from domain name trading now. So was the lack of growth in .nl caused by domainers? I don’t think so. …

ICANN posted today for public comment the proposed agreements for renewal of the Registry Agreement for .INFO and for .BIZ. This proposals are a result of discussions between ICANN/Afilias Limited and ICANN/Neustar, Inc. respectively. After review of …

ICANN posted for public comment the proposed renewal agreements of the .INFO and .BIZ Registries. The new contracts will have a 6 year duration spanning up to 2019. Afilias Limited, the .info registry, and Neustar, the .biz registry, as per …

Highlights • US$10 million (approximately £6.6 million) conditionally raised from institutional and other investors and directors • Company strongly positioned to participate in upcoming gTLD auctions • Funds also to be used for launch and marketing of .london • TLDH has largest portfolio …

Nokta Domains announced that it sold 32 domains worth $75,000 in May. Nokta also announced that isleased 18 domains in May. Here is the list of the May domain name sales: 3dCrystal.com $7000 MaleEnhancementProducts.com $5000 UcakBileti.org $4999 Hailer.com $4200 Fitn.com $4000 GlobalExchanges.com $4000 UtilityTrailers.net $3875 GroupPhotography.com $3750 kbw.co.uk $3000 3dCrystals.com …