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.London Priority Period ended on the 31st of July and was a bloody mess as the English say. In the priority period, that was kind of like a landrush with an extra twist, where anybody …

Sedo just announced that it sold the domain name Chat.de for 65,000 Euro or $86,988 USD. The buyer is Zonat SA from Luxemburg that is a Domain Management Company. The domain currently redirects to Sedo.com …

.NYC new extension entered landrush yesterday and New York’s new mayor Bill de Blasio is endorsing the New gTLD. “This is a chance for more New Yorkers to claim their piece of the City’s high-demand …

TLD Registry’s CEO Arto Isokoski and CMO Simon Cousins will be highlighted guest speakers at India’s inaugural World Domain Day. TLD Registry has released 2 new gTLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), …

ICANN announced that the current President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé, will continue as CEO for at least two years beyond the initial term of his current Agreement. The full Board discussed and agreed, following a …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Today, the 4th of August .NYC enters the landrush phase. This will probably be the largest geo …

Demand Media, Inc.(R) (NYSE: DMD) announced the successful completion of the separation of Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”) from Demand Media in the form of a tax-free dividend involving the distribution of all outstanding shares of …

Domain Guardians announced today the sale of the domain name BTC.com to GAWMiners for US$1,000,000. GAW Miners sells Bitcoin mining hardware, cloud mining, hosting and electricity. Just yesterday Domain Guardians had announced that they were …

Today, 4th of August, .NYC enters the landrush phase. This will probably be the largest geo New gTLD in terms of the number of domain name registrations. Only people and businesses with a real New …

ICANN intends to hold its third Public Meeting of 2015 in the Europe region. ICANN staff completed a thorough review of all proposed venues in Europe and finds the one in Dublin, Ireland to be …

The .Mail New gTLD was stopped by ICANN’s “Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework”. .Mail is the 3rd New gTLD after .Home and .Corp that was stopped by ICANN because of collisions. This is great news …

ICANN’s current President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé, has been working with ICANN, first as an independent contractor and then as employee, for over two years. The initial term of his current Employment Agreement, absent extension, …

TorrentFreak.com did an article about how FBI is asking the Department of Homeland Security to seize all The Pirate Bay domain names. A Pirate Bay-related Freedom of Information request was sent to Homeland Security’s National …

In the past week (July 21 to July 27), 569 (506 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 million ($1m last week). Only 179 (162 last week) domains from …