After releasing single and two letter .co.uk domain names, Nominet, the operator of the .UK ccTLD is currently running a consultation on a release of domains under the second level, i.e. example.uk.On his site MyDomainNames.co.uk Edwin Hayward from Memorable Domains details why he opposes the proposed procedure for release of those domains with a 2...

Sedo's monthly Greatdomains auction ends in about four hours at noon EDT today on October 25th, 2012. See the current bids below. Click here to bid on any of the names. Related posts: Sedo's Monthly GreatDomains Auction ends today Sedo's no Reserve auction ends today Sedo .ME May Auction Ends in less than four hours Snapnames/Moniker International ...

Webfest Global 2013 Conference to Be Held February 5-7, 2013 in Santa Monica, California LOS ANGELES, California (October 18, 2012) ? DomainSponsor?, the online direct navigation traffic monetization unit of Oversee.net? and organizer of the critically acclaimed DOMAINfest? series of domestic and international conferences, announced today that onli...

As just announced at the ICANN 45 in Toronto today, ICANN launched a first version of MyICANN.org created to aggregate and personalize all of the available information from ICANN. Explore the latest news from across the ICANN community. Pick out what's important to you and have it delivered directly to your Inbox. Browse the portal Related posts: ...

Over 4 years ago, I wrote a post about the results of the 2008 TRAFFIC auction. That auction did over $4.3 million in sales. ?Can you imagine ? ?Back then the entire industry was looking for a barometer of the state of the business during a tough time, and the results were considered dismal with Related posts: Keep Playing the Music . . . Really, ...

BELLEVUE, Wash. ? Architelos, Inc., a domain name industry consulting and managed services provider and Donuts Inc., a registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), said today Donuts will adopt NameSentry, Architelos? software-as-a-service platform for detecting and mitigating domain name abuse. The patent-pending NameSentry application ...

And here are the winners of the 2012 Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards as they were announced at a Brunch during the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show this morning: Best new monetizing Solution DomainPower.com Best overall Domain Solution Sedo.com Best Domain Blog DomainSherpa.com (Cyger) The ?we get it? award SalesForce.com Developer of the year award Ala...

The live domain auction for TRAFFIC is live and going . We're live blogging.? Missed the first few.? We've got 100 lots or so to go through. Related posts: LIVE: RickLatona TRAFFIC Silicon Valley Auction Results Targeted TRAFFIC Dublin 2010 Live Auction Results Targeted TRAFFIC Vancouver .CA Live Auction Results TRAFFIC Down Under Aftermarket.com L...

With the TRAFFIC conference right around the corner, many domainers may be wondering if DomainFest is still going to occur. ?Andrew at DNW heard from Oversee that the show was still going on?and Moniker is already taking auction submission, but it sure would be nice to make travel arrangements soon. ?Well here you go, DNN Related posts: DOMAINfest...

Member of Anonymous claims responsibility As reported by a number of sources and experienced by ourselves, Go Daddy appears to be experiencing a Denial of Service Attack on their nameservers, taking down customers websites as well. TechCrunch reported on the issue and?Anonymous Own3r has claimed responsibility. Go Daddy has acknowledged that they k...

As reported by Wired today the US Government has returned the seized domain names of Spanish forum RojaDirecta.com/org domains after the government dropped their claim on Wednesday – 19 months after the domains were originally seized. The seizing of the domains happened as part of the "Operation in our Sites" together with eight other sites ...

SnapNames?, a KeyDrive S. A. company and leading domain name online marketplace for already registered, expiring and deleting domain names announced today the release of their domain name auction bidding app for iPhone and iPod touch. With over twenty-five million domains to choose from annually, SnapNames.com users can now easily bid on a wide sel...

As reported by The Daily Jeffersonian, Matt McKnight from Cambridge has registered a number of domain names in order to protect vice-president candidate Paul Ryan. The article calls him the "domain-ator" mentions that his main site is at JannaRyan.com, which is the name of the candidate's wife. As Dan Davis writes,? McKnight purchased the domains ...

Users of Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk were greeted today with a Google malware warning when accessing the?popular domain name parking and aftermarket site. ?The warning details are below. DNN was able to see the warnings in some Chrome and Safari but not Firefox, and upon reloading later this morning the warning had disappeared on Safari. Other Related...

Freshbooks just sent out an announcement from their CEO Mike McDerment to their clients – which include my own company (DomainCocoon). The company will become "Cloud Accounting" – there's just one little snag. The domain CloudAccounting.com is already owned by an accountant in London. Of course he noticed the name change as well. So her...

VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) just published a new video yesterday promoting .TV domain names. Earlier this year Tuvalu had renewed the contract with the company until 2021. Related posts: .DE Registry Publishes Image Video Verisign Revises .TV Premium Offering, Sedo to Auction Premium .TVs Aftermarket.com Creates Promotional Video VeriSign Announces 25t...

As per an email from Rick "DomainKing" Schwartz, the following are the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. nominees for the 9th annual domain industry awards. Voting will open later this month. Best new monetizing Solution BanksAds.com DomainNameSales.com DomainPower.com InternetTraffic.com JuiceCow.com Protrada.com ParkLogic.com Rook Media The Parking Place V...

This past week, 823 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.3 million. 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: expecting.com at 49,999 USD Top ccTLD: gr.ee at 21,000 EUR Top ?other? TLD: finances.net at 10,500 EUR See the full Related posts: Sedo ...

Information company Thomson Reuters announced today that they bought brand protection company and corporate domain registrar Mark Monitor for an undisclosed sum. "This acquisition marks the beginning of a transformational shift within the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters," said Chris Kibarian, president, IP & Scie...

Sedo's monthly Greatdomains auction ends today in 3 hours. At the time of this post, 73 of the 228 domains listed in the auction have received bids so far and 24 have meet their reserve. See a list of the domains and their current bids after the jump. Related posts: Sedo's no Reserve auction ends Related posts: Sedo's no Reserve auction ends today...

The company's domain parking pages were accidentally blocked by an anti-virus software earlier this year Oversee.net announced today that its domain parking unit DomainSponsor has entered into an agreement with Team Cymru, a specialized Internet security research firm and non-profit dedicated to making the Internet more secure by helping organizati...

As posted yesterday via email and on Rick's Blog, the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2012 Awards nominations are open until COB today. You can send the nominations via email to trafficawards (at) ?earthlink.net. OFFICIAL BALLOT 2012 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS NOMINATIONS The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS have become the oldest, most sought-after and prestigious Domain...

Please find the weekly sales list attached. This past week, 834 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.5 million. 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlight public sales include: Top .com: metal.com at 140,000 USD Top ccTLD: sugar.co at 30,000 USD Top ?other? TLD: car-games.net Relate...

The? Snapnames/Moniker International Premium & ccTLD Auction ends today with only one domain so far having met the reserve price (since it was listed at no reserve), smokers.co.uk. At the time of the posting the auction is running for seven more hours. See the domains and their current bids after the jump. Related posts: SnapNames Related post...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. July 17. Oversee.net?, announced today the appointment of Gene Chuang as its Chief Technology Officer.? Chuang will be responsible for identifying and building technology platforms that support the growth of Oversee?s current and future business initiatives. Known for his expertise in mobile, social and search marketing platform...

Remark Media (Nasdaq:MARK) has completed the acquisition of Banks.com, Inc. (OTCQB:BNNX) as reported in a press release. The company sold look.com in 2011 for $400,000. With this acquisition, Remark Media will expand its online personal finance ecosystem that will serve as the go-to destination for users seeking actionable financial advice. The hub...

Just as the 44th ICANN meeting in Prague ended yesterday, ICANN has opened? registration for the 45th ICANN meeting in Toronto, to be held Oct 14-19th 2012. Even though the site says "Prague is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in the world", I'm pretty sure it's still in Toronto with CIRA, the Related posts: DomainerDinner in Toronto: W...

As announced by ICANN today, the new gTLD Program Director Michael Salazar has resigned. Kurt Pritz has been appointed to take on direct oversight of the entire New Generic Top-level Domain Program in an interim capacity. He will assume the responsibilities of New gTLD Program Director Michael Salazar, who has resigned, in addition to his Related ...

Sedo's no reserve auction ends today at noon EDT. Here are? the current bids and domains: Related posts: SnapNames Year End Auction Ends Today SnapNames Spring Auction & Sedo .TV Auction Ending Today Sedo .ME May Auction Ends in less than four hours Moniker/ Affiliate Summit Silent Auction Ends Today, 7/17 DomainFest Global 2009 extended Rela...

This guest post was writting by Phil Corwin. Mr. Corwin is Founding Principal of the Virtualaw LLC consultancy and serves as Of Counsel to Greenberg & Lieberman and as for the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), all located in Washington, DC. This post is his personal opinion. Expect the unexpected. Because it will happen. And it Related post...

Sedo?s published a quantitative analysis today on which new gTLD applications may be most successful, worth the investment and in demand by end users.? According to statistical analysis by Sedo, the top 10 most valuable domains being sought are: 1 SHOP 2 WEB 3 SITE 4 MUSIC 5 HOTEL 6 ONE 7 BLOG 8 ECO Related posts: ICANN reveals applications for 1,...

In the official Microsoft blog, Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Office at Microsoft, writes more about the company's goals and movitation when participating in ICANN's new gTLD application round. Microsoft applied for 11 new gTLDs "most of which correspond to [Microsoft's] existing trademarked products, services and brands": .microsoft, ....

ICANN has just released the official "meeting guide" for the upcoming ICANN Meeting #44 in Prague, Czech Republic. There are over 100 meetings scheduled, and many of the domain industry's most powerful and successful businessmen and companies will be in attendance. ICANN's outgoing CEO Rod Beckstrom writes: "Before us are a multitude of important i...

MarkMonitor.com has analyzed all 1,930 new gTLD applications that were successfully processed with ICANN. The applications came in from 60 countries for 1,408 unique strings. Of the 1,930 applications received, dotBrands accounted for 664 of them according to MarkMonitor, which makes for about 1/3rd total. MarkMonitor has segmented the data and pro...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) through it's Luxembourg based subsidiary Amazon EU S.? r.l. is pursuing 76 new domain extensions. Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer has selected Neustar (NYSE: NSR) as the provider of back-end registry services for all of it's new gTLD's, it was revealed earlier today during ICANN's press event in London, UK. Neus...

Some domainer owners watching the news about the new gTLD applications may have had a pleasant surprise today. Domain owners that own a .com domain that has a corresponding new TLD application may just have learned about increases in traffic and possibly value to their .com holding. Clearly many of the applicants for new TLDs Related posts: 36 For...

Burson-Marsteller, a leading public relations and communications firm, announced today that it has formed a consulting group dedicated to advising clients on the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). B-M currently operates 67 wholly owned offices and 71 affiliate offices in 98 countries across 6 continents. The company boasts that ...

Many of Europe's biggest cities will soon have their very own space on the web, right to the dot, to be exact. This means that very soon you will be able to have your website hosted at johnsrestaurant.PARIS for example, or BikeStore.MOSCOW. There was a total of 66 new gTLD applications classified as geographic, according Related posts: Only 4 US c...

When the idea of new gTLDs were introduced, it seemed logical that big brand owners would be the first to adopt. ?The cost to own one's own "dotBrand" is somewhat restrictive because of the application price of $185,000 in addition to the costs to run the new TLD. ?Among the Fortune 100 though, one would Related posts: MarkMonitor getting billion ...