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During ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires, the Governmental Advisory Committee issued further advice to the ICANN Board of Directors regarding New gTLD applications. GAC Advice was intended to identify applications that are “problematic,” e.g., that …

I was trying for about 24 hours to unlock a few of my domains at Enom so I could transfer them out. I had no luck. I was using the Bulk Global Edit by adding …

Go Daddy announced today their new product that is called Get Found. Get Found helps Go Daddy customers to be more easily found by their clients in Google, Facebook, Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable, Yahoo!, Citysearch, Foursquare …

Nominet announced today that it plans to update the .uk domain name registration policy so that it can suspend or de-register .uk domain names that promote serious sexual offenses. Although Nominet says that it will …

Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) provided an update on the progress of its uncontested gTLD applications, Minds + Machines’ OPEN Priority Reservation programme and the private auction process. Progress of uncontested TLDH and client …

ICANN announced that on January 14th, 8 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 91 new gTLD strings. The 8 new gTLDs are .ZONE, .CHEAP, .MARKETING, .DEMOCRAT, .SOCIAL, .AGENCY, .MODA and .DANCE. Check …

ICANN’s new infographic provides a high-level explanation of the Rights Protection Mechanisms that Trademark holders and their representatives can use to combat infringement during the Domain Name System expansion. New gTLD Program Rights Protection Mechanisms …

Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, maintained its market leading position in 2013, according to the Top 100 Domain Sales Chart as published by the domain industry publication, DN Journal.  With 34 …

The domain name liu.com just sold for $155,688 with 520 bids and 377 bidders in a Namejet public auction. Yesterday the domain name liang.com sold for $45,000 with the 2 highest bidders tied at  $45k. Liu.com and Liang.com were …

Hand registration is hard! I participated in the hand registration contest that Elliot run on his blog at DomainInvesting.com. I came up 3rd with 49 votes. Thanks to those who voted for me. My list was …