KK.com creamed the competition in the Domain Name Journal weekly sales chart for the week ending 10 November, selling for $2,400,000 through Moniker/SnapNames to easily eclipse the next biggest sale…
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Monthly Archives: November 2013
It’s the time of the year when Americans go a bit crazy with shopping, online and offline. During last year’s Cyber Monday, Americans spent $1.98 billion shopping online, topping Thanksgiving…
The launch dates of some of the first new gTLDs have been announced, but as 2014 rolls along dozens will often be launching in a month, maybe even in some…
Purpose (Brief): To obtain community input on the recommendations recently adopted by the GNSO Council concerning the Protection of IGO and INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs Policy Development Process prior…
Purpose (Brief): This study, conducted by Carnegie Mellon University’s Cylab (CMU), examines the extent to which public Whois contact information for gTLD domain names is misused (i.e. harmful actions such…
[news release] Lesley Cowley, CEO of Nominet – the internet company best known for running the .uk internet infrastructure – has been awarded the inaugural ICANN Leadership Award for her…
Nominet announced it has discontinued its legal action against Mr Graeme Wingate and That Internet Ltd in a statement yesterday.
As of October 2013, 61.3 percent of all .fr domain names had at least one server that was IPv6 compatible, significantly up from the 2011 figure of 40.9 percent but…
Paris Hilton, famous for doing virtually nothing, is reportedly “going after a Slovenian porn site that’s illegally profiting off her good name and legendary sex tape,” reports the celebrity news…
Pre-registrations of .luxury domain names have commenced, but the price is a very luxurious $799.99 per year, according to media reports.
From 3 December 2013, DENIC will launch a dedicated cooling-off service for all .de domain names to protect registrants against an unintentional loss of their domain(s) as a result of…
The end of a nine edition run of six figure or more domain name sales came about in the week ending 3 November with outbreak.com topping the Domain Name Journal…
dotMobi responds to demand from web designer and developer community to more easily create mobile websites for their clients [news release] To meet the growing demand for mobile-specific websites, dotMobi has expanded the…
[news release] The Internet Society Board of Trustees, during its meeting in Buenos Aires, agreed to increase support for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as an indispensable part of the…
The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings are pleased to announce that the Company has signed contracts with ICANN for five new gTLDs wholly-owned by the Company: .horse, .cooking, .casa,…