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VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today provided a statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) announcement of its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions. The announcement …

I started writing this post thinking of one thing and realized that something else was more important. Look at the conclusion at the end of this post. This blew my mind. I am sure a …

ICANN Board Chair, Steve Crocker, reacts to U.S. decision to transfer stewardship of important Internet technical functions:

To support and enhance the multistakeholder model of Internet policymaking and governance, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced on Friday its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-3-14 to 3-9-14 were $1.907.184. This report includes some nice .co sales such as how.co for $13,890, eyecandy.co for $4,999 and reve.co …

Almost half (46%) of Brits say best thing the web has given each of us is an ability to quickly find answers to our questions, according to a new poll from Nominet, the internet company …

ICANN announced that 4 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 173 new gTLD strings. The 4 new gTLDs are: .世界 (xn--rhqv96g) – Chinese for “world/shijie”, .机构 (xn--nqv7f) – Chinese for “agencies/institutions”, .”संगठन …

Virtual, Inc. (http://www.virtualmgmt.com), a technology-focused association management company, has recently signed new clients in three distinctively different sectors: the Domain Name Association (DNA), the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, and the Feldenkrais Guild of North …

ICANN just opened a comment period for the “Draft Implementation Plan for WHOIS Online Accuracy Reporting System”. ICANN plans to release a request for proposal (RFP) after the ICANN Singapore 2014 Meeting to solicit vendor …

I did a post yesterday about .domains EAP sales with 10 domain names selling for $3,000+ each and 45 selling for $1,200+ each. There were also 4 domains that sold for more than $1000 that …

I am watching the ICANN RSS feed and I got this article today: 13 March 2014 Sender’s Title: Chair Sender’s Affiliation: ICANN Board of Directors Issue: Proposal for implementing GAC advice concerning IGO acronyms File: …

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the UK domain name registry Nominet and Public Interest Registry, operators of the .ORG domain will jointly host the first Commonwealth …

This past week the following 3 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .domains, .limo and .cab. Yesterday I posted the 6 EAP sales for .limo and .cab. Today it’s time for the .domains EAP …

NameJet announced that they have partnered with Oversee.net and the DomainFest conference to offer 40 premium domain names for auction. This exclusive list of premium domains is available on the NameJet auction platform and will …