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Starting January 13 Go Daddy started supporting .ca Internationalized Domain Names with French characters. This means French-Canadian individuals and businesses can now register the English and French versions of their domain name. The .ca registration …

Richemont International SA, owner of IWC watches, filed 7 UDRP complaints on a single day (10th of January 2013) with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center. All complaints are related to their IWC trademark. Some of …

As of 11 January 2013, 10 ICANN accredited registrar are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN requests that these 10 registrars cure …

I see Ziff Davis and Cnet parking unused domains at Sedo and Domain Sponsor and I start thinking if domain name parking is dead or not. Sure earnings have dropped in the past few years …

DOA.com sold for $74,400 at Namejet in a public auction. There were 10 bidders with a $10k bid or higher. 2 bidders carried the auction from $15k up to $74k. The auction had 369 bid from 300 …

After a research paper from University of St.Gallen and Harvard accused ICANN of transparency deficits, ICANN Ombudsman defended his role by saying that “the Office of the Ombudsman, with access to information, and the ability …

UDRP complaint for grief.net and grief-recovery.com was dismissed at the National Arbitration Forum. The decision of the panel was not to proceed with the UDRP because of a pending litigation. The three member Panel said …

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) requested from Verisign (the .com and .net registry operator) a contractual compliance audit for the .net TLD. With a letter dated 8 of January 2013 to ICANN, …

GasStations.com sold for $25,300 at Namejet in a public auction. The domain probably had a $25k reserve. 3 bidders went over the reserve. The auction had 276 bid from 217 bidders. The domain name Ambitious.com didn’t sell at …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. This week 2 more domains have been confirmed as sold (whois has been updated): Thai.xxx for $8,250 and Dolls.xxx …