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ICANN decided, at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors that was held on 26 June 2014 in London England (ICANN 50), the location of the ICANN 52 meeting to be in Marrakech, …

TechCrunch.com did an article today on how the “online portfolio service Format has been trying to acquire the domain name, format.com, for the past three years. On Monday they announced the purchase as well as a rebranding …

The total number of .eu registrations grew by 2.2% in Q1 2014, according to the progress report released today by the .eu registry EURid. “This relatively high growth rate is thanks, in part, to our …

ICANN decided, at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors that was held on 26 June 2014 in London England, the redelegation of the .GW domain representing Guinea-Bissau. Kuo-Wei Wu introduced the agenda …

I am getting a lot of .us domain name offers lately. They started coming the week before the 4th of July and they keep coming until today. I have gotten 7 offers for .us domains …

Hexonet suspended one of my domains after their 2013 RAA verification email went straight to spam. I wrote a few months back about the Enom and Tucows problem that was that they didn’t use their …

Chron.com posted an article yesterday about how Texas A&M bought the domain name  12thMan.com from a Tennessee businessman Eric Arnold. Arnold said he was prohibited from disclosing the purchase price but is pleased to pass …

DomainAgents compensates domain owners for engaging with negotiations. When you enter into active negotiations, on completion, you receive a promotional credit that may be redeemed for your choice of one of the following: A free …

I haven’t made a post with New gTLD launches in the past couple of months because I thought that most people knew about them but a few of my readers complained so this weekly post …

A regular meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors was held in London, England on 21 June 2014. The Committee engaged in a discussion concerning applications for several adult-oriented …