Domain Name News

ICANN‘s 2013 Nominating Committee (NomCom) will be attending the 46th ICANN Meeting in Beijing, China, (http://beijing46.icann.org/) and conduct a number of open meetings to provide detailed information to the community about the NomCom’s work and …

Key-Systems GmbH (domaindiscount24.com) introduced a new feature in the dd24 login area: the dd24 dashboard. The dashboard provides many important details about your dd24 account at a glance. The dashboard shows you for example if …

EURid, the .eu registry, will attend WorldHostingDays (WHD.global) from 19 – 21 March in Rust, Germany, to raise awareness of .eu and liaise with .eu registrars and other industry professionals. WorldHostingDays (WHD.global) is the most …

SSC.com sold for $50,299 at Namejet. The auction had 296 bids from 283 bidders. There were 6 bidders with a $10k bid or higher and 3 of them actually made it above $50k. The domain name has …

A Public Interest Commitments (PIC) dispute resolution procedure has been introduced by ICANN. A third Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (PDDRP) – along with the already approved Trademark PDDRP and Registration Restriction Dispute Resolution Procedure (RRDRP) …

An objection was filed at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center for the new gTLD string .delmonte. The WIPO center received the objection on March 2, 2013 and this was just posted on the WIPO …

This past week 2 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 2 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 26. GlobalX …

Two separate initiatives from Go Daddy and Nominet aim to help teenagers and students. Go Daddy is offering 10 students $10,000 each in the Go Daddy .ME Scholarship program and Nominet launched a campaign against …

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 …

Xerox filed a UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) complaint at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). The complaint was filed for 50 domain names, most of them appear to be printer model numbers such as: …

EURid, the .eu registry, just published the Q4 2012 progress report. On average, 80% of .eu domain names were renewed in 2012, according to the latest progress report from the .eu registry EURid. This is …

General Motors LLC won the domain name MyChevrolet.com at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center after waiting 12 years to file a complaint. The disputed domain name MyChevrolet.com has resolved to an inactive website since it was …

I logged in my favorite RSS reader today only to find a popup message saying: Google Reader will not be available after July 1, 2013 Google’s main reasons for closing down Google Reader is that …

Is this really what the UDRP was designed for? Is ICANN happy with this travesty? The domain uhealth.org was transferred to the complainant in a case that was decided by a 2-1 majority of the …