Domain Name News

This past week 2 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 2 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 45. 1&1 …

Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) and ICANN have signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing ADNDRC as a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) provider. ICANN claims that ADNDRC is well known to the Internet …

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 …

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry, recently conducted a survey through ORC International to measure the level of trust consumers have in .ORG and their sentiments towards other online resources, such as social media, …

Last week I wrote about Governmental Advisory Committee’s (GAC) advice to the ICANN Board that threatens to derail the whole new gTLD program. Please see the entirety of the GAC Beijing Communiqué [PDF, 156 KB] …

Conan O’Brien has made a few domain name related jokes on his show Conan, in the last few months. Conan joked about Yahoo and Google, about Go Daddy twice and he even referenced new gTLDs… …

As announced earlier today, over the next few days Microsoft will release an update for people who use Outlook.com. This includes a number of new features such as two-step verification, the ability to sign in …

Ford Motor Company filled on March 21, 2013 for a trademark for the term ‘inflatable light urban vehicle’ (iLuv) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company has also filed another application for the …

This week, 749 transactions (738 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.92 million ($1.47 last week). Only 257 domains (236 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

Go Daddy is expanding again with a permanent Seattle-area office in Kirkland or Bellevue, Washington set to open in June. Several new employees are already operating out of a temporary office near Carillon Point in …

Yesterday, I got an “inquiry” for a 1 word ultra premium and generic .info domain that I bought for 4 figures and has a 2002 registration date. The so called inquiry read: Just wondering what …

ICANN published the final list of 263 objections that have passed the Dispute Resolution Service Providers’ (DRSPs) administrative review: 67 String Confusion Objections 69 Existing Legal Rights Objections 23 Limited Public Interest Objections 104 Community …

This past week 4 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 4 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 43. MiTek …

The next set of Initial Evaluation Results was released by ICANN. The total number of passing applications is now 131. ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 109-149. …