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This week, 763 transactions (800 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million ($1.57 last week). Only 215 domains (211 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

Demand Media Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2012 Results Record Fourth Quarter and 2012 Revenue and Revenue ex-TAC Q4 and 2012 Adj. EBITDAGrowth Each Exceed 20% to $29.4M and $103.4M Q4 and 2012 Adj. EPS …

Demand Media today announced that its board of directors has authorized a plan to explore separating its business into two independent, publicly-traded companies: A pure-play media company with a powerful outsourced content creation platform that …

From March 18 to 28, 2013, Go Daddy Auctions is offering 42 rare, valuable one and two character .org domain names. For more information, see What is Project 94?. Starting today, if you want to …

The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry and new gTLD applicant for .ngo and ong, opened today a call for expressions of interest (EOI) for .NGO and .ONG domain registrations. PIR claims that new …

The Project 94 .org Event Auction is almost here! From March 18 to 28, 2013, Go Daddy Auctions is offering 42 rare, valuable one- and two-character .org domain names. For Project 94, the Public Interest …

Barack Obama’s “Organizing For Action” filed for a trademark at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The trademark for the mark “ORGANIZING FOR ACTION” was filed on 7th of February 2013 and relates to 5 …

General Motors LLC withdrew it’s application for the .GMC new gTLD string. This makes it the 2st new gTLD with assigned prioritization number and the 15th string in total to withdraw. The string received a Prioritization …

The Domain Pulse Conference started today in Davos, Switzerland. Domain Pulse claims to be the the most important event in the German-speaking world when it comes to current topics, tendencies and trends associated with domains. …

The Community TLD Applicant Group (CTAG), an informal group composed of 33 community TLD applicants representing 40 community TLD applications (see list of members below) send a letter to ICANN asking ICANN for a clearer …

The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) send a letter of support for the .bio gTLD to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The membership based organization, created in 1972, has …

Yesterday, 14 February 2013, ICANN selected the members of the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG). On 13 December 2012, Fadi Chehadé, ICANN‘s President and CEO, announced the creation of an Expert Working …

Sedo announced the brokered sale of the domain name Partners.com for $125,000 USD. The domain was first registered in 1993. The seller is Domain Capital that bought the domain name in 2006 for $130,000 in …

The UDRP complaint for the domain name Kanal.com was denied at the National Arbitration Forum. Respondent from France denied having targeted Complainant or its mark when he registered the domain name. Complainant did not even …