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The number of domain name registrations from the 14 first Donuts New gTLDs surpassed 50000 yesterday. The zone file domain name total is actually 49980 but zone files don’t include domain names without nameservers so …

ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé has arrived in Beijing for several days of meetings with leaders of China’s Internet and telecommunications community. Chehadé will confer with several Chinese government agencies and representatives …

Fédération Française de Tennis that runs the Roland Garros Grand Slam tennis tournament is going after a lot of domain names lately using the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). The official Roland Garros website is …

Sedo.com, announced today in their domain name sales feed that the domain name Malls.com was sold for $320,000. The domain name was sold by Michael Berkens‘s company Worldwide Media, Inc.. The domain name Malls.com was originally …

On the 5th of February I wrote how a company from Michigan that offers Sample Prep Equipment and Supplies bought the domain names sampleprep.equipment and metallographic.equipment for a total of $25,080 at Go Daddy. The …

Casio Computer CO., Ltd. filed a UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complaint was filed for 100 .org domain names. This is clearly a waste of time and money for everybody …

Apple Inc. bought 3 New gTLD domain names with different variations of the name of late Apple founder Steve Jobs. The domain names were registered this Friday February 7th 2014 at Apple’s brand protection registrar: Corporation …

As of February 4th and 7th 2014, 3 ICANN accredited registrars are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The breach is because of …

Blacknight, an Irish based ICANN accredited domain registrar and hosting company, is furious at ICANN about the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) 2013. A blog post called “ICANT Cope With ICANN!” (with a URL that ends …

Namejet released it’s January 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 83 domains for $836,575 in January 2014. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. Here are the 83 reported domain …