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The first Greek ICANN accredited registrar finally arrived. I have been waiting for many years for a registrar located in Greece and it finally happened. Papaki.gr has signed the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) 2013 and …

I now own the 2 domains name I bought from the 3M Company. I waited for more than 2 months to get them. Here is my latest .NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of …

Today the 17th of December 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for two new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; .MLS, and …

At last, I now own the 2 domain names I bought from the 3M Company. I say ‘at last’ because the whole transaction lasted for more than 2 months. The “agreement” was reached on the …

An Education Advisory Committee recommended that Kids.us should remain suspended. The Kids.us Education Advisory Committee was convened in April 2014 to consider the ongoing suspension of the kids.us third-level namespace, as well as to contemplate future …

Dynadot is one of my favorite registrars and the only problem I was having is that it didn’t offer real domain name whois privacy. They would hide the email address, phone number and address but …

ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion into their systems. We believe a “spear phishing” attack was initiated in late November 2014. It involved email messages that were crafted to appear to come from our own …

Here is my latest .NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%). I posted some of my 2014 domain name purchases. More coming soon! This is my …

This week no New gTLD enters General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 3 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs entering EAP on the 17th of December: …

In the past week 458 (509 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.3m last week). Only 150 (143 last week) domains from the 458 were reported by Sedo. …

Here is my latest .NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%). This Is How Namejet Treats “Long Time NameJet Partners” I posted some of my 2014 …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name HackerMagazine.com that was sold for $6,000. There is a lot of hacking going on! Last week Hacked.com sold for $50,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of …

This is a follow up to my 1st .NYC report because now .nyc zone is more representative and reflects the true registration patterns of people of New York. There were 13,669 registrants that only bought …

One Degree World plans to launch more than 1,300 new travel related websites on New gTLD domain names. A few days back I wrote how global travel and entertainment company One Degree World launched their …