4 of the 16 Applications (Egypt, Russia, Saudia Arabia and UAE) that ICANN received for the Fast Track IDN ccTLD have already passed the String Validation phase and can now apply for String Delegation (adding the domains to Root DNS) to IANA. The introduction process of new IDN ccTLDs is done in three steps: Preparation [...]
The ICANN board voted in a special meeting held today to keep the 37th ICANN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya from March 7-12, 2010. After some security concerns the board had considered canceling the meeting, but will now work together with the local governments in order to provide for the security of the attendees. An editorial [...]
After technical problems with the online portion of the new live auction interface at Latonas.com, Rick Latona just announced that the auction will resume tomorrow, Saturday January 23rd at 10am PST. Everything that has been sold so far is considered final according to an announcement at the auction. (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement European Domain Registration
We will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in Las Vegas for Latona’s Live Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction, which will run from Saturday, January 23 to Thursday, January 28.. [...]
Sedo’s first Premium Auction of 2010 begins tomorrow at 5 PM GMT. This auction features several top quality .co.uk domains… Sedo\’s first Premium Auction of 2010 begins tomorrow at 5 PM GMT. This auction features several top quality .co.uk domains like site.co.uk, springbreak.co.uk and searchresults.co.uk. View the inventory Other names available in [...]
AfterNIC DLS has just sent in their domain sales report for the previous week and sales add up to a total of over $580,000 USD. This list is lead by the sales of barbecuing.com for $10,750 and follow by two sales for $10,000: motorcyclecenter.com and verba.com. See the full list after the jump. .COM Sales [...]
Trellian and their sister company Above.com have announced that they have bought the DomainState Forum, one of the oldest Domain Name Forums in the industry for an undisclosed price from the three owners. Trellian also owns and operates the Keywordiscovery.com service, which allows you to predict search volumes for specific keywords. The company announced the [...]
Over the last few months, SnapNames.com has been conducting monthly auctions and even private party auctions with varying results. The recent monthly showcase auction, which ended yesterday (January 19th), concluded with the companies best result of nearly $150,000 in domains sold. The January showcase auction (officially billed as the 1-4 character and 1 word ccTLD [...]
Earlier this month the same group (the “Iranian Cyber Army” that had modified Twitter’s DNS, also modified the DNS for the Chinese search engine Baidu.com. Baidu.com has now filed suit against Register.com (according to AFP) seeking damages for the interruption of the service. The group had managed to get access to the domain management account [...]
A few months back I wrote about the charitable work many domain name companies and individual domain investors are involved in supporting. Now I’m going to ask YOU to consider stepping up to the plate and help a charity. The beauty of it . . . it costs you NOTHING except a few minutes of [...]