Domain Name News

ICANN is asking for comments on “Closed Generic” gTLD Applications and the comment period opened yesterday 5 February 2013. ICANN is seeking public comment on the subject of “closed generic” gTLD applications and whether specific …

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), the .biz .us and .co registry among other things, announced results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2012 and provided guidance for 2013. Revenue increased 34% to $831.4 million in …

The New gTLD Program Committee has received correspondence from the community addressing “closed generic” TLDs and understands that members of the community term a “closed generic” TLD as a TLD string that is a generic …

Tumblr, Inc. has filed 9 separate UDRP complaints at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. All complaints were filed in the past 2 weeks and all 9 disputed domains appear to be typos of Tumblr.com. …

ICANN is seeking comments on a revised New gTLD Registry Agreement Including Additional Public Interest Commitments Specification and the comment period opened yesterday 5 February 2013. ICANN is seeking public comment on a revised draft of …

In a letter dated 31st of January 2013 Microsoft asked ICANN to consider requiring applicants for closed generic TLDs to either open the TLD or withdraw for a full refund. Microsoft expressed their concern, similar …

ICANN sent a notice of breach to Israeli registrar Black Ice Domains. As of 5 February 2013, Black Ice Domains, Inc. is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for …

This week, 831 transactions (715 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.63 million ($1.42 last week). Only 257 domains (235 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

The domain name nyg.com didn’t sell at NameJet. Highest bid was $36,666 USD but the reserve price wasn’t met. The auction had 256 bids from 227 bidders. There were 3 bidders with a $10,000 bid or higher.

It is more than 7 weeks after the 1st Exclusive .info auction ended at Go Daddy and a lot of domains have not been transferred to their new owners. At first I thought that the …

SnapNames announced their newest partner, the Host Europe Group and their family of registrars including 123-reg, Heart Internet and Domainmonster.com. Founded in 1997, Host Europe Group (with over 1 million customers) provides domain registration, mass …

Verisign sent a letter to ICANN about an upcoming fee change in .name domain names. The letter notifies ICANN and all .name ICANN accredited registrars about the registry price increase for .name domain names that …

ICANN hosted the Europe Regional Registry/Registrar Meeting in Amsterdam on 24-25 January 2013 and said that it exceeded expectations. The recently completed Europe Regional Registry/Registrar Meeting held in Amsterdam exceeded all previous regional meetings in …

ICANN will run a Webinar on new IDN TLDs on the 13th February 2013 called “Examining the UX Implication of the Active Variant TLDs”. Here are the complete details on what the webinar is about …