OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

This week, 743 transactions (746 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling$1.2 million ($1.3 last week). Only 248 domains (251 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains were either private sales or domains that sold for less than 700 USD/EUR/GBP. Over 47%(43% last week) of total sales were the …

ICANN has announced today that it has signed an Accountability Framework with the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) manager for .ME (Montenegro), the Ministry for Information Society and Telecommunications of Montenegro, on 13 May 2013. The Accountability Framework program provides two mechanisms by which ccTLD managers can …

Here are some of the most notable sales at Sedo during the past week. These are sales that were published after the latest Sedo report was released last Tuesday. Please find below the list of domain names that were sold for $5,000 or more: lowcostvitamins.com 17,500 USD …

Demand Media, a leading media and domain services company, today announced the debut ofDesigns.com, the latest step in the company’s efforts to facilitate the launch of upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Today’s move brings a robust platform …

On May 15th NameJet announced a partnership with Yummy Names (owned by Tucows) to auction an exclusive list of 97 premium domain names. These domains are available exclusively at NameJet. Here are the results of the third week domain name auctions: Sold domain names: ussr.com …

The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 720 (was 628 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 700-800. There are 92 (some were from previous weeks) applications in this set …

It seems that Pacnames didn’t provide an auth code to the owner within the 5 day time limit. Pacnamesused to catch domains for Snapnames but I am not sure if that is still going on. I used to …

Pool.com will be doing scheduled maintenance on June 14-15 so their website is going to be offline for 24 hours. Any closing auctions, or auctions scheduled to begin, will be postponed by 24 hours. Here is their notice: Between 20:00 GMT (4:00 PM EDT) on …

A few days back Go Daddy had a lot of expiring auctions for .US domain names. Most of them were registered since 2002 and more than 250 .us domains were auctioned off. Total sales were for more than $12,000 USD. And that excludes the …

Microsoft sent a letter to ICANN about Google’s Proposed Dotless Domain to its .search gTLD.Microsoft expressed its continuing concern over Google’s proposed amendment  to run its gTLD application for .search as a “dotless” domain, as Microsoft strongly urges ICANN to follow the advice of the SSAC and ensure that dotless domains are only used in the private space. Microsoft said that “Google’s proposed amendment would interfere …