Start-ups fail to get a domain name that reflects their business name face an uphill marketing battle according to a report from a domain name consulting firm. Choosing a hard-to-spell…
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Imagine selling a domain name for $35 million. For those out of the loop, that’s actually happened. In fact, two domain names have topped $35 million internationally. That’s an impressive…
CENTR today launched the call for nominations for the second edition of its CENTR Awards, which aim at highlighting country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry projects, teams and people that…
The .hiv new gTLD is to be put up for auction with a reserve price of $200,000. The decision, made reluctantly, has ultimately come about due to the gTLD not…
It’s not always that the big players win the gTLDs in contention. In late March Latin American Telecom announced that it secured the highly contested gTLD. After almost three years…
Radix have announced the launch of .tech with a goal of appealing to the more than 1.35 million tech startups, 18.2 million developers, 200,000 technology establishments and thousands of technology…
The Cross Community Working Group to Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal for Naming Related Functions (CWG-Stewardship) released its 2nd draft proposal for public comment on 22 April. Following the…
Daniel Marti was nominated to become the new White House “IP Czar” in August 2014 to replace Victoria Espinel. His predecessor, in yet another illustration of Washington’s “revolving door” shuffling…
ICANN today announced that the effective date of the Additional Whois Information Policy (AWIP) and Whois advisory is 31 January 2016. In addition, ICANN has published an updated Whois advisory…
ICANN is releasing a set of documents that present an overview of the tasks of a Generation Panel as well as additional orientation and guidance. They include: Guidelines [PDF, 359…
To support IDN labels in the root zone, the ICANN community, at the direction of the Board, undertook several projects to study and make recommendations on their viability and delegation….
The registration of domain names similar to those of the names of existing governing bodies have led the major cricket bodies to question if there is a move being made…
Late on the evening on April 22nd the CWG-Stewardship on the IANA Naming Functions issued its second Draft Proposal for a 28-day public comment period that closes on May 20th….
The biggest reported domain sale for the week ending 12 April wasn’t… very big! It was the $49,000 sale of rizk.com in a private sale. And yes, while not a…
KickassTorrents has been kicked from its latest ccTLD after relocating to the .IM (Isle of Man) ccTLD. The world’s leading torrent sharing website was only able to use the ccTLD…