Starting on 1 February, declarations for domain deletion and change of holder are being phased out. For registrants, this means a simpler and swifter processing of your transactions. During a transitional period, registrants may face both the old routines with paper declarations that must be sent to Norid, and the [...]
Domain name sales totalled $84,431,965 through Sedo in 2011, the company’s 2011 Annual Domain Market Study that includes a review of the fourth quarter. However this was a significant drop on the 2010 calendar year when there was $101,438,953 in sales, a drop of $17,006,988. However it should also be [...]
In the last Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for 2011, honest.com topped the sales, selling for $180,000 through GoDaddy Auctions, followed by a trio of domains sold through Moniker/SnapNames, the first of which being phd.com ($150,000), then bolt.com ($125,581) and flora.com ($95,000). Sales of .COM domains dominated [...]
For ICANN’s New gTLD Program, a range of “Rights Protection Mechanisms” (RPMs) has been established. Prior to any new gTLDs being approved and becoming operational, these new gTLD RPMs include pre-delegation objection procedures described in more detail on the Center’s dedicated portal: Legal Rights Objections under ICANN’s New gTLD Program [...]
Monday February 6th 2012 at 3pm PST / Monday February 6th 2012 at 6pm EST / Tuesday February 7th 2012 at 10am AEST ARI Registry Services, a leading global provider of technical services for new Top-Level Domains, will host a special free webinar this Tuesday 7 February highlighting the implications [...]
ICANN is seeking individuals to serve on the Support Applicant Review Panel (SARP), an important component of the New gTLD Applicant Support Program that seeks to serve the global public interest by ensuring worldwide accessibility to, and competition within, the New gTLD Program. Panelists will be responsible for evaluating and [...]
In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org) to receive the call details. Whether you plan to participate in the upcoming ICANN meeting in Costa Rica remotely or in person, you’re invited to a quick reminder of the background and current status of each major [...]
A year ago today ICANN allocated the last five IPv4 address blocks to the five Regional Internet Registries in a ceremony with leaders from the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Society. The use of the next generation of Internet addressing – IPv6 – has been steadily growing in that [...]
Verisign has sought to clarify recent reports that came to light following a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that they were hacked back in 2010, saying that the Domain Name System was not compromised. As disclosed in an SEC filing in October 2011, Verisign said that parts of their [...]
KeyDrive, a Luxembourg- and German-based company providing domain registration, monetisation and aftermarket services has acquired the Moniker and SnapNames business units of Oversee.net. Moniker and SnapNames offer businesses and individuals an array of services for domain name registration, acquisition, brokerage and sales. Moniker introduced the live domain name auction concept. [...]
