Six Premium Generic Names Available Now at Sedo. The IPTV domains are currently listed in Sedo’s Featured Domain section, with private reserve prices. The listings will be available for up to 30 days, unless a deal is accepted before the end of this time period.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Long Beach, Calif. ( April 30, 2008 ) – IPTVDomains.com today announced that six of the top IPTV-related Internet domain names are currently up for auction Sedo.com, the premier global marketplace for domain name sales.

The premium, category-defining domains include IPTVBox.com, IPTVBoxes.com, IPTVSetTopBox.com, IPTVSetTopBoxes.com, IPTVSetTop.com and SetTop-Boxes.com

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The final Internet boom is set to take place in Australia many experts predict as AUDA relax .com.au domain name trading regulations. The move has seen the value of .com.au domain names rocket as entrepreneurs snap up valuable .com.au names.

(PRWEB) April 30, 2008 — Many people said the .com boom was reaching an end and they were correct. To an extent. What they forgot about was the big country down under that always seems to behind the times. Australian domain names are set to soar in value according to many industry experts, one of which is John Davidson.

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Demand for a profitable alternative to conventional domain parking is on the rise. As domain owners with minimal returns on traditionally parked sites seek better paying options, business investors are taking note.

One company reaping the rewards of this new trend is WhyPark.com. Today, the alternative domain parking provider announced the backing of an angel investor for its fast-growing development efforts. The strategic new partnership between WhyPark and its investor, Alan Macomber, has gone into effect with the deal’s funds rolled into an enhancement project that is already underway.

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Having jumped the one million domains hurdle, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) now plans to campaign on the strength of a dot-ca address in a bid to boost market share in Canada, according to the Authority’s president.

When Calgary-based lawyer Brent Krause registered www.krauslaw.ca on April 13, he tipped the dot-ca registry over the one million domain mark.

The lawyer has a few dot-ca sites, but had no idea he was going to hold the one-millionth Canadian-specific domain name.

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Domain acquisition gets tongues waggling

A few weeks ago, fan site Diablo3.com launched a counter ticking-down to some ‘major news’. Online chit-chat had it that this could be the unveiling of Diablo 3, given the signs, although we were less than convinced given the noises coming from VU Games PR.

The big news does involve Blizzard, however, the fan site revealing that they have sold Diablo3.com to the developer for an undisclosed sum, and will instead be moving camp to Diablofans.com. … more

People love to meet online and that fact helped Rick Latona close a $100,000 sale of MeetPeople.com this week to take the #1 spot on weekly Top 20 sales chart. SearchEngines.com ran a close second at $92,500. Moniker.com had auctioned that domain off at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West in February but the deal wasn’t completed until this week.

Sedo.com put more names on the Big Board than any other venue, claiming eight spots including #3 Sexkontakt.com at €40,000 ($62,280). Sedo’s roster included an IDN at #11, Sociétés.com at €8,404 ($13,085) and they also put two ccTLDs on the elite list, #13 Medicamentos.es (”medicines” in Spanish) at €7,100 ($11,056) and #15 (tie) ManchesterNews.co.uk at $10,000. … more

With Amstetten in Lower Austria making the headlines around the world, the domain name world opportunists are quickly registering domain names relating to the Fritzl family and attempting to sell them on eBay and elsewhere. Others are registering domain names of the family and regularly updating the websites with news and information on the happenings. … more

The AFNIC is happy to see the opening of a public consultation. It invites all of the stakeholders (professionals, associations, Internet users) to express their point of view and their expectations on the future management of the French Internet domains.

The French Department of Economy, Finance and Employment starts on 25th April 2008 a public consultation on the criteria that could be taken into account during the selection of the future registration office(s). … more

Domain tasting is the disreputable practice of registering lots of domains, seeing how much traffic they get, and then using the five day Add Grace Period to refund the 99.9% of them that aren’t worth paying for. A related abuse is front running, registrars speculatively grabbing domains that people inquire about to prevent them from using a different registrar. … more

The Colombian government has announced it will reassign the registry for .co and currently has a task force set up to investigate how to go about this. … more

Sedo’s brokerage services are being updated with a new process for submitting both buyer and seller side brokerage requests and…

Sedo’s brokerage services are being updated with a new process for submitting both buyer and seller side brokerage requests and enhanced communications tools. Our dedicated brokers will now be able to work one-on-one with clients through Sedo’s exclusive message tool. The goal of this new process is to strengthen relationships and to provide more efficient service and support to each individual buyer and seller. … more

Domain Tools is exclusively listing Harmony.com for sale. It is being offered at a very calm US$5 million dollar reserve price. The Domain Tools blog says the domain gets “an incredible amount of traffic” and is being sold at a private auction. The auction date is May 12. … more

Moniker.com announced an initial list of premium contenders for a live and online domain name auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in Orlando. The exclusive live auction will take place Friday, May 23 at 3:30-6:30 p.m. EDT (12:30-3:30 p.m. PDT) at The Grand Floridian Hotel. … more

Melbourne IT announced today it has acquired VeriSign’s Digital Brand Management Services for US$50 million, effective May 1.

This is a significant acquisition that will significantly boost Melbourne IT’s scale and market share in the digital brand protection and performance market. The VeriSign DBMS business and Melbourne IT’s existing Corporate Brand Services division will be integrated to create the global number one digital brand services company. The combined business will help enterprise clients to manage, monitor, protect and optimise the performance of their digital brands. … more

NIC Mexico announced they reached the milestone of the 250,000th .mx domain name on April 28. While .mx is not one of the larger ccTLDs, it is experiencing strong growth with an increase of 24 per cent in 2007. It took 15 years to reach the first 100,000 .mx domain names and another two years to reach 200,000 and a further six months to reach the quarter million mark. … more