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Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) said today it has secured additional funding as new gTLDs approach. The financing includes a Series B equity investment led by existing investor Generation …

India’s Minster for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma today deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol for the International Registration of Marks at WIPO, bringing the total number of members of the …

This past week 6 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 6 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 39. The …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) welcomes the decision by. JOBS to use the Trademark Clearinghouse database to support a sunrise registration period ahead of its planned open registration period to begin …

Barack Obama’s “Organizing For Action” failed to win a UDRP complaint for the domain name OrganizingForAction.net at the National Arbitration Forum. Panelist Hon. Karl V. Fink (Ret.) denied the complaint because the Complainant didn’t have …

ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé announced today that the organization will open its first new global engagement office in Beijing. “Engagement with China is not merely an option, we simply must engage …

Building upon last week’s release of results for the second 30 applications, ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 61-108. There are 39 applications in this second set …

The MetaregistryTM RRPproxy, a division of the German based domain registrar Key-Systems GmbH, has joined the Afternic marketplace as a Premium Partner. Afternic, a NameMedia company, currently offers one of the largest portfolios of “Fast …

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 …

From March 18 to April 4, 2013, Go Daddy Auctions offered on an extended 17 day auction 42 rare, valuable one and two character .org domain names. 27 of the total 42 domains were sold …