NameJet just released new details about the offering of their services to gTLD registry operators who are interested in running sunrise & land rush auctions and premium domain sales on the NameJet.com platform. According to the updated website "NameJet will be the premier destination for landrush, premium and general availability auction servic...

Sedo's May .ME auction ends today in less than four hours. The auction started a week ago and here are the current bids:   Related posts: SnapNames Spring Auction ends in 1 1/2 hours SnapNames Year End Auction Ends Today Pizza.com Ends in 2 hours Moniker/ Affiliate Summit Silent Auction Ends Today, 7/17 Sedo Two Related posts: SnapNames Sprin...

The .NZ DNCL just announced the proposal of extending the .nz domain name space by allowing anybody to register domains at the "second level".? This has the potential to significantly alter New Zealand?s domain name space, so the NZ domain name commission is now actively looking for feedback and submissions to get your views on Related posts: .NG ...

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) just announced that they have revised the rules on .cn domain name registrations. So as of today according to the latest amendment and enforcement announcement: ?any individual or organization that can bear independently civil liabilities, has the right to apply for the domain registration under the...

It was just announced that next Thursday MarkMonitor will be hosting a live webinar that will discuss new gTLD's. It will feature an interactive Q&A session.?Elisa Cooper and Matt Serlin will also cover and review the MarkMonitor new gTLD application database with a live demo, strategies for objection filing and response as well as rights Rela...

This past week, 877 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.2 million. ? 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: kindred.com at 50,000 USD Top ccTLD: interest.me at 80,000 USD Top ?other? TLD: amara.org at 25,000 USD See all Related posts: Sedo se...

The law enforcement recommendations for storing additional information related to domain name registrations that are supposed to make their way into ICANN's new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) might be against German data privacy laws, as Heise.de (German tech publication) reports. According to the response to Heise's inquiry,? The Federal ...

According to a post on Most Wanted Domains newly launched Facebook page and a corresponding tweet, Michael Berken's company is going to be reporting information on their domain sales through social media in real time, starting next week. It also appears that the company bought mwd.com for an undisclosed price – the domain currently redirects ...

German based HEXONET, a?domain technology solutions provider, recently announced that they are now managing over a million domains for clients, resellers and partners. The one millionth domain milestone is a goal that many registrars strive for and HEXONET reached this goal last month.   The company empowers resellers to privately brand many u...

Sedo sales just reported their domain sales for the week ending on May 14th, 2012. This past week, 947 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.1 million.? 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.? Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: ahha.com at 112,000 USD Top Related posts: Sedo Sal...

The domain name registry that operates the .CA ccTLD, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), announced today that the .CA domain is turning 25 years old. The very first .CA domain name was registered to the University of Prince Edward Island in 1988. Currently there are 1,925,775 domains registered under .CA. It was on this day Related p...

The operator of the .ORG domain extension, PIR (Public Interest Registry), is looking for nominations to the advisory council to fill seats that are opening up. They are specifically looking for individuals with significant internet leadership experience within the non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) and domain name arena's who represen...

Just the other day?Luxembourg based EuroDNS.com announced that they are running a special promotion on all newly registered and transferred .eu domains. The prices have been reduced to ?0.99 per single domain or $1.30 according to the latest exchange rates. The promo ends on May 22, 2012. Daniel Eisenhut, Chief Sales Officer at EuroDNS said: Relat...

The domain name MEET.ME was the highest profiled and most expensive dot me (.ME) domain ever sold. It was announced in early November of last year that the jointly owned domain by Rick Schwartz, Mike Berkens and Ammar Kubba was sold for a whopping $450K in an all-cash deal… But the real buyer of this No related posts.

This past week, 845 reportable transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace, totaling over $1.6 million.?? 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: drill.com at 50,000 USD Top ccTLD: lampa.pl at 12,000 EUR Top ?other? TLD: hotspot.net at 9,000 EUR See all of the sales Related posts: Dom...

Washington DC based FairWinds Partners announced on Friday that a custom domain name strategy designed for Verizon, the telecom and internet giant, which has been implemented since mid-2008 has now generated 31 million visitors per year on average to the various Verizon owned websites/internet properties. An additional 321,000 confirmed online sale...

While ICANN latest update on the security loophole in the TLD Application System (TAS) doesn't really hold any new information regarding the actual fixing of the problem and the updated new gTLD timeline, ICANN has decided to release more information from the time the system was taken offline: 2,091 applications were either submitted or in Related...

In an email to its subscribers today, Startups.com Network, Inc. announced that they are??shutting down their daily deal site, StartUps.com after a year. The company states that they "didn't achieve the ambitious goals we set for ourselves when we launched only 1 year ago.?" While the letter does not state anything about the future of Related post...

ICANN has just emailed another updated regarding the interruption of the new gTLD Application process availability caused by a security hole in the TLD Application System (TAS). According to the report by Akram Atallah, COO of ICANN, they are still planning to complete the currently ongoing notification of applicants affected by the breach by May ...

The most popular posts on DNN in April of 2012 by web traffic were: XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers (04|15|2011) Joichi Ito Joins Tucows Board (12|15|2008) Frank Schilling?s InternetTraffic.com now powers 1,500,000+ domains (04|19|2012) Will Marchex Sell iPanel.com to Apple? (04|05|2012) First Brannans Doma...

DNN recently analyzed the top 1,000,000 most heavily trafficked and popular websites in the world, according to Alexa, and the results were shocking when we specifically looked at the now 1 year old active dot XXX extension. Our research revealed that only 61 developed websites that are using the .XXX extension placed inside the top Related posts:...

The ICANN public comment period for the .com Registry Agreement renewal with VeriSign ends tomorrow on Thursday April 26th at 23:59 UTC. You can submit comments via to [email protected] . In the second "reply" phase replies to the comments can be submitted limited to those who commented in the first phase – this phase will Related posts:...

Want to know what happened in the 17th week of 2012 week in the world of domain names? As reported… Here at DNN Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool ICANN Says new TLD Application System (TAS) Bug is fixed, QA in progress IANA Related posts: The Week In Domain...

Sedo's Greatdomains and Moniker have started a their online domain auction yesterday mid-day. While the Sedo Greatdomains auction will run for a week as usual, the Moniker auction, the first auction since the company was purchased by Keydrive, will run for almost a month. And the latest new entrant to the domain auction game, Brannans, Related pos...

When Frank Schilling quietly soft-launched InternetTraffic.com last year and made the service available to a few select fellow domainers and professional type-in traffic operators, not too many could predict that the move would forever change the domain parking industry. So to get a better idea of what's going on and more importantly what is still ...

A few days ago the registrar EnCirca released new feeds (available via RSS and HTML) on their site that list new, expiring and auctioned domains in the .Travel and .PRO TLDs. According to EnCirca, News.pro recently sold for $3,600.00; credit.pro sold for $2,400.00 and irki.com sold for $1,200.00. [via EnCirca] Related posts: .TRAVEL registry propos...

After the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) had canceled the first RFP for a new IANA contractor because they "received no proposals that met the requirements", the RFP was opened again for bids two days ago. ICANN had submitted a bid, which was not accepted by? NITA. The deadline for bids to the Related posts: I...

ICANN emailed another announcement regarding the security issue in the TLD Application System (TAS) has been fixed, but the fix is currently undergoing Quality Assurance testing and ICANN is still gathering the information required to contact the applicants and let them know. The application system will not open today; another announcement regardin...

As just announced in blog post, LeadRefs has just released their latest version of their lead generation tool. The new version of the tool now mashes up the data of the list of dropping and expired domains with the amount of leads available to sell the domains. It also has a paid membership now – Related posts: Rick Latona "Lead Generation" ...

ICANN's COO,?Akram Atallah, has emailed a new statement today regarding the sercurity issue in the TLD Application System (TAS), which allowed at least some users of the system to view file names from submissions of other applicants. Apparently the problem was first identified by a user on March 19th, 2012 and addressed only after a Related posts:...

According to a statement by ICANN the shutdown of the new TLD Application System (TAS) on what was to be the last day of the application window has been caused by a potential bug that "allowed a limited number of users to view some other users' file names and user names in certain scenarios". So Related posts: Iron Mountain to Provide Additional A...

Domaining.com apparently is having some database issues – the database is currently being restored on a new server as the owner Francois tells us. It appears this week domaining blogs will all miss their referral traffic from Domaining.com – it remains interesting to see if any of the other aggregates is able to benefit from Related po...

As reported by Business Insider, ICM Registry, the operator of the .XXX TLD launched in December of 2011 has submitted applications to ICANN in the new gTLDs program for the .SEX,. ADULT and .PORN TLDs. The launch of .XXX faced opposition from within and outside the adult industry, but has managed to register over 210,000 Related posts: Hunting Mo...

As per the unofficial tally of the first Brannans auction held by David and Toby Clements, the auction sold 8 domains for a total of $34,000 USD. BalletShoes.com yielded the highest price at $13,250 USD. The sold names were: The new domain auction house formed by the brothers ended their first auction today. They used Related posts: Domainvermarkt...

Apple does usually not care about owning the domain name for new products that are announced and or about to be launched, but in the past has then later acquired some of the names. Now it appears they are planning to launch the iPanel in the fourth quarter of this year – a combined TV Related posts: Marchex lists their domains for sale Ex-Ma...

Marchex operated a domain parking program through their?MDNH subsidary? by the name of Marchex Sitebox. The program started in 2006 and is now being shut down as of May 1st, 2012 according to an email sent out today by the company. The website has not been updated at this time, however the application to join Related posts: DomainTools introduces ...