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ICANN announced that there is a lot of interest in the regional Registry Registrar meeting, taking place in Amsterdam January 24th and 25th 2013. With over 240 registrants, this is by far the most attended regional …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the .com and .net registry, announced today financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012 and year ended Dec. 31, 2012. Verisign reported 13 percent year-over-year revenue growth in 2012. There …

After receiving my first payment from Internet Traffic and looking at my Paypal account, I was surprised to see that a Paypal fee had been deducted from the received payment.This is because the parking earnings …

Webfest Global 2013 announced today that their keynote speaker will be Kim Kardashian, the reality queen. The conference takes place in Santa Monica, California, during February 5-7, 2013. On Wednesday Feb 6th the keynote speaker …

The Moscow Commercial Court ruled on January 15 to transfer the domain name Nike.Ru from businessman Stas Drugalyov, that heads the Caravan Telecom domain registrar, to Nike’s Russian office. Nike’s lawyer Anton Sergo stated in court …

Two brothers from Canada went against each other in a UDRP dispute at the National Arbitration Forum for the domain name Bousada.com. Panelist Beatrice Onica Jarka found that the dispute fell outside the scope of the …

The Boeing Company won the domain name wwwboeing.com after submitting a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum. Respondent was Host for You c/o Vladimir Snezko from Russia. The domain wwwboeing.com redirects to a website containing …

Sedo posted an article today about how domain names that are priced with charm prices (e.g. 2,899 or 999) sell faster in Sedo’s marketplace. Sedo also supports it’s automatic price suggestion tool but I find …

This week, 1076 transactions (1055 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.60 million ($1.78 last week). Only 241 domains (300 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains …

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) website at mit.edu was hacked today by hacker group LulzSec in response to the death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was being prosecuted with the cooperation of M.I.T for illegall downloading …

According to new rules in Belarus, .by domain names, which registration has expired, are put up for a charity auction. The owner of the domain name gets 30 days to renew the registration. If the …

Sedo added today another Asian registrar Net-Chinese to its SedoMLS Premium Network after adding registrar 66.cn last week. Net-Chinese is based in Taiwan and also has offices in the United Kingdom. Net-Chinese was accredited by …

Last week ICANN send notices of breach to 10 accredited registrars because they were in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). One of the …

Sedo announced today that it is now allowing it’s users to set a Minimum Offer when adding new domain names into their system. This way you don’t have to make 2 steps in order to …