The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) are pleased to announce that it has signed a term sheet with Uniregistry to operate the .country top-level domain for which both companies had applied. …
Read More »Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds+Machines) announces the appointment of Keith Teare to the Board of TLDH
Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds+Machines) announced the formal appointment of Keith Teare to the Board of TLDH as a non-executive director. Keith Teare is the CEO and founder of just.me Inc and a founder at …
Read More »2013 Registry Agreement Posted for Community Review and Comments
ICANN is posting today for public comment the proposed final New gTLD Registry Agreement that will be entered into between ICANN and successful new gTLD applicants. The proposed final draft of the New gTLD Registry …
Read More »6 new gTLDs applications withdrawn for .ONLINE, .LLP, .LTD, .INC, .LLC, and .CORP (total at 51)
This past week 6 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 6 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 51. Fairwinds …
Read More »Procter & Gamble buys the domain Swash.com from Marchex after found guilty of RDNH
Archeo (Marchex) announced its Q1 domain sales today with $1.4 million from 50 domains sold for an average $27,233. Archeo published the top 20 sales of the quarter and the number 1 spot was taken …
Read More »Archeo (Marchex) Q1 Domain Sales: $1.4 million from 50 domains sold for an average $27,233
Archeo, Inc., a division of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced domain sales for the first quarter of 2013 were $1.4 million, which was comprised of 50 domains sold. In the fourth quarter of 2012, …
Read More »Moniker and Snapnames are down
Both Moniker and Snapnames websites are not responding at the moment. I was trying to backorder a domain and when that failed I remembered I wanted to renew some of my expiring domains at Moniker. …
Read More »Sedo latest sales: Moms.com 252k USD, kbra.com 40k USD, Executor.co.uk 12k GBP, Fund.tv 10k Euro etc.
Here are some of the most notable sales at Sedo during the past week. These are sales that were published after the latest Sedo report was released last Tuesday. Please find below the list of …
Read More »“Masturbation at its finest”
I got an inquiry through Domain Name Sales (Internet Traffic) for one of my domain names. The domain has a lot of traffic and it was registered in 1999. The IP address revealed that the …
Read More »ICM Registry sells ShemaleCam.xxx for $3,300 and confirms 27 more sales
The confirmed 46 sales reached $300,630 this week. ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. So far 55 domain names have been removed from this list …
Read More »Verisign Q1 2013 Report: net 1.99 million more .com/.net, 8.8 million new registrations, 15% revenue growth
VeriSign, Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. Verisign got a 15% year-over-year revenue growth in Q1 2013. The domain related numbers are: Verisign Registry Services added 1.99 million net …
Read More »UDRP complaints hold steady at the National Arbitration Forum: 2,060 UDRP cases filed in 2012
The National Arbitration Forum (FORUM), an international provider of dispute resolution services, today announced that a total of 2,060 cases were filed in its domain name dispute resolution program in 2012, down 22 cases from …
Read More »Avaya Inc. found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking and harassing the domain name owner
Avaya Inc., a multinational company with over 17,500 employees worldwide, was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking by a 3-member Panel at the National Arbitration Forum. I represented the Respondent, Avayo Electronics, in these proceedings. Avaya …
Read More »ICANN sends notice of breach to 3 registrars: Basic Fusion, Inc., A. Telecom S.A., Dotted Ventures, Inc.
As of 23 April 2013, 3 ICANN accredited registrars are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN requests that these 3 registrars cure …
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