Rick Latona Auctions extended sale of over 600 domain names is active now and will run until 4 February.
For information on registration and bidding, see www.proxibid.com/ricklatona. For further information see the news release below.
Atlanta, Georgia USA – January 26, 2010 – The extended sale for Rick Latona Auctions is active now and you can register [...]

As of 7 February there are changes to the manager of the .CO (Colombia) registry and to the registration policies.
The new company managing the .CO registry will be Internet SAS and to coincide with them taking over the registry management the following changes to registration policies are being implemented, the most important of these being:

anyone, [...]

The growing list of contenders for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) has seen the Spanish city of Madrid enter the race with a proposal for .MADRID.
The idea for .MADRID follows the approval in 2006 of .CAT to represent the Catalan community around the world, but originally from Spain.
PuntoMadrid is interested in what domain names [...]

Following a special meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors on Friday, Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO, has announced via a posting on the ICANN blog that the Nairobi meeting will go ahead as planned in March.
It had been heavily rumoured the meeting would not go ahead, with alternatives including cities in Russia, Tunisia and the [...]

Due to an unexpectedly large number of good submissions for the PITCHfest session scheduled forTuesday, January 26, at DOMAINfest Global, a second PITCHfest session has been added. The submissions received have been extremely relevant to attendees and, accordingly, to accommodate all that deserve attention,it was decided to replace the LAUNCHfest session (scheduled for Thursday, January [...]

The ongoing GNSO Improvements process has created significant community interest in the formation of new GNSO constituencies. One of those proposals is for a new Consumers Constituency. Proponents of the Consumers Constituency originally submitted a New Constituency Petition and Charter to the ICANN Board on 14 April 2009. A revised version [...]

ICANN today approved the first four internationalised top-level domain names. Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have passed the language character (string) evaluation, intended to avoid confusion with other top level domain names. These countries may now request that their Internet names be included in the Internet domain names root [...]

Rumours have been circulating in recent days that ICANN are reconsidering holding their meeting in Nairobi in March. These rumours have been confirmed to be more than that with ICANN announcing they will be holding a special meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors on 22 January.
The meeting, to be held by teleconference on 22 [...]

The International Trademark Association (INTA), a not-for-profit membership association of 5,900 trademark owners, professionals and academics, from more than 190 countries, emailed its members on 11 January to suggest they support their opposition to ICANN’s proposed expressions of interest (EOI) process.
In December, ICANN proposed adraft model for soliciting Expressions of Interest for new generic top-level [...]

Registering.CN domain names, the Chinese ccTLD, has become a confusing thing to do of late. First CNNIC, the .CN registry, announced that registrations would no longer be accepted by individuals. But now there is confusion and talk that China will begin to accept registrations from individuals once again.
The Chinese government said in December that it [...]