Domain Name News

As Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President & CEO, announced this week, ICANN launched a public conversation about ICANN’s future. ICANN is seeking ideas from the global community to help create a new, overarching vision and five-year …

CAX.com, the domain name marketplace owned by Francois Carrillo, that is also the owner of Domaining.com, started offering payment plans to domain names listed there beginning April 9, 2013. A buyer can choose to make …

The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Beijing during the week of 4 April 2013. Sixty one (61) GAC Members participated in the meetings and …

The Search.xxx ad platform is now available and you can start using your Search.xxx ad credit beginning today. Each account has been populated with the Ad Credit balances: $75 for each .XXX domain name registered. …

This week, 738 transactions (704 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.47 million ($1.25 last week). Only 236 domains (233 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

ICANN will be implementing a new and improved self-service customer portal, based on the trusted Salesforce.com platform. Starting Tuesday, April 16, 2013 (UTC), you will be able to electronically submit cases and receive real-time updates …

Charleston Road Registry (Google) send a letter to ICANN announcing the amendment of 4 new gTLD applications. Google intends to operate a redirect service on the “dotless” .search domain (http://search/), the .app TLD will be …

On 8 April, ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé signed affirmations of intent with China Internet Network Information Center, Neustar, Inc., and Nominet for the provision of emergency back-end registry operation, or EBERO, services for …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that Duncan Burns has been named as the organization’s Vice President of Global Communications. Burns is leaving Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Washington, D.C. to lead …

32 more string confusion objections have been filed at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). Here is the complete list of the 33 string confusion objections so far:  NO.  OBJECTOR  STRING  APPLICANT  1.  Starting …

92 more objections were filed at the International Chamber of Commerce for new gTLD strings. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) received the objections on March 12 and 13, 2013 and these were posted on the …

Yesterday, Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the Internet grew by more than six million domain names in the fourth quarter of 2012. The total number of …

Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) said today it has secured additional funding as new gTLDs approach. The financing includes a Series B equity investment led by existing investor Generation …

India’s Minster for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma today deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks at WIPO, bringing the total number of members of the …