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ICANN selects the Swedish (.se) registry operator for new gTLD testing

ICANN announced that it selected the Swedish registry operator Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur (.SE) as the provider of Pre-Delegation Testing services for the new gTLD Program. Testing is done to verify that the new gTLD applicant …

5 Namejet auctions had a reserve glitch today

5 NameJet auctions had an unexpected failure of the previously set reserve price today. This error caused the inadvertent removal of reserve proxies in five NameJet auctions. Auctions will be extended for an additional hour. …

ICM Registry sells teacher.xxx for $8,415

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. Last week 20 domains had been sold (or were pending) from the original list. This week 1 more domain …

Pool shutting down registrars effective January 10 – Domains in limbo

Pool is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. These are registrars that have been used drop catching for the Pool backordering service. Pool has not been so successful in acquiring dropped …

The million dollar domain name: BroccoliBellyRub.com

Last week Chris O’Dowd was a guest at Conan, the Conan O’Brien hosted TV show. At some point of the interview Conan asked Chris about his new movie with Megan Fox. Chris O’Dowd said that …

.net price increases to $5.62 on July 1, 2013 and at $8.20 until 2017

Verisign announced today that the .net registry fee will be increased from $5.11 to $5.62. This price does NOT include the $0.75 ICANN fee. So the actual wholesale fee paid by the registrars will be …

nye.com sold for $175,500 at NameJet

The domain name nye.com was just sold at NameJet. Highest bid was $175,500. The reserve was probably at about $100k but I can’t be sure. The auction had 331 bids from 285 bidders. There were 5 bidders with a $10k …

Save the best for last! Don’t expect the best new gTLDs like .home and .shop before late 2014!

The Prioritization Draw was held on December 17th 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application was assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used …

Sedo sells 945 domains worth $1.48 million: uLink.com sells for 20,000 USD and matik.ch for 11,000 EUR – Week 11/12-17/12 2012

This week, 945 transactions (900 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.48 million ($1.52 last week). Only 183 domains (262 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …