Domaining News

A research paper written in 2011 by members of the University of St.Gallen and Harvard argues that: “occasionally, the very characteristics that define ICANN’s model act as opposing forces and result in policy decisions that …

Panel denied the UDRP complaint for the domain name MyCadillac.com that General Motors made at WIPO. The Panel denied the complaint because the domain was used offering PPC links to the “Cadillac” geographic term only …

Completing the selection of meeting sites for 2013, the ICANN Board approved Buenos Aires, Argentina, as the location of ICANN’s 48th public meeting, to be held 17-21 November 2013. The Board also approved Singapore, London …

FamilyPhotos.com sold for $15,000 at Namejet. The domain was sold exactly at the reserve price that was set at $15,000 by the seller. The domain name Xiao.com didn’t sell at NameJet. Highest bid was $41,000 but …

Pool announced on the 20th of December that it is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. I had 12 affected domains that were registered in these registrars in the past few …

Demand Media today announced the acquisition of Denver-based domain name registrar Name.com. The acquisition is intended to expand Demand Media’s platform as it prepares for the historic release of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) this year. …

Since I started this blog in July 2012 I made about 225 posts until the end of 2012. These are the most visited posts: “Your Auction Has Ended”: Will GoDaddy give me back my time …

She was born prematurely 1690gr. I hope she is strong to survive the next few days.

Let me tell you a story from the past… It was back in 2003 and Namewinner was running at full speed catching dropping domain names. For those that don’t know what Namewinner was… Namewinner was …

Marchex owned domain PetExpress.com gets a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling as John Berryhill gets this complaint dismissed at NAF. This must be the longest decision I have ever seen for the simple reason that …

The New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) send a letter complaining to ICANN about the numerous delays in the New gTLD program. The letter was sent on the 21st of December and was just published by …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. This week 1 more domain has been sold: Dolls.xxx for $7,425. Doll.xxx is still available for sale at $5,940. …

Go Daddy Auctions and Sedo integration seems to be having a few problems today. I got an offer today on one of the few domains I have left at Sedo through Go Daddy auctions. I …

Go Daddy sold 32,767 domains in December. That is almost on par with November’s 32,850 domains. 55% of the sales were from auctions, 43% of the sales were from Buy Now listings and 2% were …