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Jan/31/12 World’s largest registrar Go Daddy joins the SedoMLS Network

January 31 2012 No Comments

Set Buy Now prices and benefit from exposure to millions of potential buyers

As of January 31st this year, we are excited to welcome the world’s largest registrar, Go Daddy, to the SedoMLS family. Any domains listed for sale in your Sedo account and set at a Buy Now price receive promotion not only through our marketplace, but through distribution across the SedoMLS…

Jan/31/12 World’s largest registrar Go Daddy joins the SedoMLS Network

January 31 2012 No Comments

Set Buy Now prices and benefit from exposure to millions of potential buyers

As of January 31st this year, we are excited to welcome the world’s largest registrar, Go Daddy, to the SedoMLS family. Any domains listed for sale in your Sedo account and set at a Buy Now price receive promotion not only through our marketplace, but through distribution across the SedoMLS…

Jan/31/12 World’s largest registrar Go Daddy joins the SedoMLS Network

January 31 2012 No Comments

Set Buy Now prices and benefit from exposure to millions of potential buyers

As of January 31st this year, we are excited to welcome the world’s largest registrar, Go Daddy, to the SedoMLS family. Any domains listed for sale in your Sedo account and set at a Buy Now price receive promotion not only through our marketplace, but through distribution across the SedoMLS…

ICANN To Reduce “Unreachable” Whois Registrations By 50% In 1 Year?

January 31 2012 No Comments

Review Team Asks for Community Comment on Draft Recommendations that Could Bring Big Changes to Whois Whois allows you to look up the name and contact information of whoever operates any website domain – or at least, it should. But it isn’t always accurate. In some cases, Whois contact information [...]

CIRA On The Road To Introducing .CA IDNs With French Characters

January 31 2012 No Comments

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has launched the second and final phase of its consultation in the implementation of French characters (also known as Internationalised Domain Names, or IDNs) in .CA domain names. .CA holders and Canadian internet users are invited to provide their feedback on certain revisions to [...]

And Then It Was Quiet On The Domain Sales Front In The Week To Christmas…

January 31 2012 No Comments

A quiet week for domain name sales in the week to 25 December according to Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales. My.net was the top seller for a comparatively small £49,000 ($75,950) through Sedo followed by vintageporn.com for $60,000 through HuntingMoon. Third biggest seller for the week also pipped [...]

ARI Registry Services Signs 21 Contracts In The First Week Of Applications

January 30 2012 No Comments

The opening of the application window for new Top Level Domains on 12 January by ICANN has seen a flurry of interest from business in particular. ARI Registry Services have announced this has led to it signing 21 contracts to provide technical registry services for the same number of within [...]

Business Awareness of New TLDs Sorely Lacking: Adrian Kinderis

January 29 2012 No Comments

This is the first of a series of articles on new TLDs as a result of interviews with leading industry players. In this first article we interview Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry Services who is forthright in his views on TLDs, how business outside North America is showing little [...]

The Wayward Anti-Cybersquatter Consumer Protection Act: A Survey of 11 Years of ACPA Caselaw by Roberrt Cannon, Federal Communications Commission; Cybertelecom

January 29 2012 No Comments

Abstract: The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) has lost its way. The ACPA was passed in an era of domain name land grabs, where nefarious individuals would register and warehouse oodles of valuable domain names, and then extract ransom from bewildered trademark owners. Interstellar Starship Servs., Ltd. v. Epix, Inc., [...]

Kim Dotcom Owns Kim.com

January 29 2012 No Comments

Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom has certainly hit the headlines following his arrest in New Zealand last week. But one thing that had not yet been noted according to The Financial Times is that the German-born entrepreneur owns the domain name kim.com. According to Whois records, Dotcom acquired the domain name in [...]