Constant.com may have been the biggest seller for a reasonable $90,000 selling through AfternicDLS, but Sedo was responsible for 15 of the top 20 sales in the week to 20…
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Two large domain sales topped the weekly Domain Name Journal chart for the week to 16 November with vu.com and meet.me selling for $700,000 and $450,000 respectively while local.ly was…
British police have “closed around 2,000 sites set up by criminals and purporting to sell luxury goods, and are monitoring hundreds of others that have popped up on the web…
The latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief noted that the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) for Tokelau’s ccTLD, .TK entered the top ten largest top level domain rankings as…
The New York Times has joined the Washington Post in urging ICANN to rethink and delay its introduction of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) saying “a pilot program to work…
Go Daddy has backtracked on its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA that is aimed at stopping illegal file sharing. The legislation is currently working its way through…
As part of the new gTLD program, all new gTLD applicants are required to provide a cost estimate for funding critical registry functions on an annual basis in case of…
Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose On 20 April 2011, ICANN announced the IDN Variant Issues Project to explore the benefits and risks associated with the potential inclusion of IDN…
ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) invites Statements of Interest and candidate recommendations from the Internet community for key leadership positions to fulfill ICANN’s technical and policy coordination role. Interested individuals are…
The Public Comment Process is fundamental to ICANN’s multistakeholder, bottom-up, consensus-driven process. It was also the focus of several recommendations made by the Accountability & Transparency Review Team (ATRT). Since…
The 2011 Annual Report for ICANN as been published online today. The report highlights the organization’s achievements and progress from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011, including:
The number of domain names registered around the world continues its never-ending rise, with the registered domain name base climbing to nearly 220 million registrations across all Top Level Domains…
“Two bills now pending in Congress — the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House — represent…
Austrian domain names are subjected to few disputes, with only 1200 domains disputed and of these, only ten per cent of disputes end up in court, the latest .at report…
The CEO Search Committee has now completed a job description for the position of CEO (reference [PDF, 145 KB]) and a CEO candidate profile (reference [PDF, 576 KB]). It has…