ICANN is targeting 22 May as the intended reopening date for the TLD Application System. ICANN anticipates the system remaining open for five business days and close on 30 May. This takes account of the 28 May Memorial Day holiday in the United States. ICANN took TAS offline on 12 [...]
Publishing house HUB Uitgevers has appointed SIDN, the registry for .NL, to provide back-end registry services for the new top-level domain (TLD) .AMSTERDAM. Amsterdam’s municipal authority asked HUB Uitgevers to operate the Dutch capital’s TLD after careful market research. The expectation is that the new TLD will come on line [...]
The capital of The Netherlands has begun an outreach programme to get potential applicants interested in registering their preferred domains. The website, puntamsterdam.nl, says sales of .AMSTERDAM domains will commence at the end of the year, which may be being quite hopeful, especially as it is quite likely ICANN will [...]
ICANN has offered a full refund of application fees for any gTLD applicant that wishes to withdraw its application prior to publication of the list of applied-for new top level domains. The announcement comes about following a resolution authorising full refunds that was adopted during a Board of Directors workshop [...]
Sedo was responsible for more than 10,133 domain name transactions accounting for $19,641,153 in sales, the Sedo Q1 2012 Domain Market Study reports [PDF]. The report also says there has been a significant shift in market dynamics with the number of Buy Now sales surpassing offer-counter offer sales for the [...]
Businesses must be established within the European Union to enable them to register their trademarks as .EU domain names, a legal advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said. The case came about after an American eyewear company, that uses the domain name lensworld.com, wanted to register a .EU [...]
In the year’s second biggest sale (the largest was personalloans.com selling for $1 million), jackpot.com topped the Domain Name Journal weekly sales chart in the week to 29 April with a big $500,000 sale through Moniker. The sale easily eclipsed second placegetter movies.xxx, which sold for $90,000 through the .XXX [...]
The Nigerian government is promoting the .NG ccTLD, encouraging the public and businesses to “switch to .NG.” The campaign has several aims and objectives, all with the goal of encouraging more registrations of .NG domain names by Nigerians. The campaign has the support of Google in Nigeria who are helping [...]
Central to the Internet’s value as a platform for innovation, democracy, access to information and scientific progress are the technical standards on which it is built and the open manner in which it is governed. Yet, there are governments that seek to alter the fundamental way the Internet functions. Several [...]
There were 2091 applications – either submitted or in progress – for new generic Top Level Domains when ICANN took the TLD Application System (TAS) offline on 12 April due to the security glitch, ICANN have announced in the latest update by Akram Atallah, the organisation’s COO. In addition, there [...]
