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Entries from June 2008

This is Your Chance to Tell ICANN How Registrars Should Act

June 30th, 2008 · 37 Comments

ICANN announced that it is now accepting comments for proposed changes to the Registrar Accreditation Agreements, those agreements registrars sign with ICANN which in part, govern registrars conduct.
This is the time that you can send a clear message to ICANN that certain practice of registrars should be outlawed and let them know of any instances […]

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Tags: Domain Registrars · ICANN

GoDaddy Stops Employee’s From Bidding in TDNAM Auction

June 30th, 2008 · 14 Comments

Today as reported by DomainNameWire.com the General Counsel of GoDaddy, Christine Jones announced that
“”””To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales & back orders.””””
We applaud GoDaddy in reversing their policy and taking this […]

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Tags: Domain Auctions · Domain Industry · Domain Registrars

Maybe Getting that New Domain Extension Won’t be That Easy

June 29th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Looking at the draft flow chart that ICANN has posted for the process of obtaining new extensions, it looks like it may not be a quick and easy process as the press described.
Certainly you can count next year out.
An extension can be knocked out by if it is “too similar to reserved names or existing […]

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Tags: ICANN · New Extensions

New Extension .CYM: That Wouldn’t Confuse Anyone, Would It?

June 29th, 2008 · 33 Comments

According to an article, New Whales is going for the .CYM extension for a Welsh websites.
South Wales West AM Bethan Jenkins said the ICANN annoucement:
“could, in effect, pave the way for the dotCYM domain name to be used for Welsh website addresses. It’s important that the world has access to everything that Wales has to […]

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Tags: ICANN · New Extensions

GoDaddy Insider Bidding makes non-domain Blog Headlines

June 29th, 2008 · 20 Comments

Slashdot.org, a non-domain blog has picked up the story about Adam Dicker the VP of Godaddy in charge of  their aftermarket auctions bidding on such auctions.
Good to see.
We need to get the word out about this story and Tucows who has taken domains, right from registrants and kept them for themselves.
Image if Network Solutions did […]

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Tags: Domain Auctions

At 2.1 Million Dollars its a Very Expensive Meal and a Record Setter

June 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments

A Chinese investment fund manager won a lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.
Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening with a bid of $2,110,100.
Buffett has been auctioning off lunches online for […]

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Tags: Misc

How Can A .xxx/.sex Extension Be OK Now?

June 28th, 2008 · 12 Comments

I have read hundreds of stories about ICANN voting to allow the creation of an unlimited amount of domain extensions in the mainstream media.  Each and everyone of these article talks about an adult extension .xxx/.sex or some other version as a foregone conclusion in terms of popularity among users and applicants.
The question is how […]

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Tags: Domain Industry · ICANN · Legal

Fight Against New Extensions

June 27th, 2008 · 37 Comments

This is a Guest Post by Seb

ICANN is opening the door to a huge mess for companies of all size, SMBs to Fortune 500.

Companies were used (should i say forced) to register their company name and brands in all new extensions ICANN would come up with : .eu / .mobi / .asia.

These are nothing but […]

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Tags: ICANN · New Extensions

Moniker Silent Auction Nets $99K

June 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The silent auction from the Paris Domainers show just concluded and a total of 64 domains were sold for $99K
Here is the complete list of all domains that sold
Title                                    Bid
sprints.com                                $35,300.00
asj.com                                    $15,300.00
jpv.com                                     $8,240.00
WorkFromHome.info                           $5,000.00
travelplus.com                              $3,530.00
MKF.NET                   $1,770.00
songdirectory.com         $1,317.00
pokerplayingtips.com                        $1,180.00
mobileadvertisement.com                     $1,180.00
vinoblanco.com            $1,100.00
Loan.lu                                     $1,000.00
musclebuilding.net                            $900.00
DVDA.com                                      $900.00
creditapplications.net                        $900.00
orp.biz                    $865.00
JewelryShops.com                              $715.00
AssetPrograms.com           $660.00
NewsTrailer.com             $649.00
ORGANICVEAL.COM             $590.00
ItalianHoliday.com          $590.00
vegasonlinecasinos.com                        $590.00
votingpoll.net              $590.00
worldclassbaths.com                           $590.00
ORGANICESPRESSO.COM         $590.00
CURRENCYSITES.COM                             $590.00
ajedrez.net                                   […]

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Tags: Domain Auctions

ICANN Opens Flood Gates To New Extensions

June 26th, 2008 · 77 Comments

ICANN has unimously voted to allow an unlimited amount of new TLD’s, using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.
In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part:
“””The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able […]

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Tags: Domain Industry · Domain Valuation · ICANN