The domain name Check.me was at a Sedo auction with a reserve price of $2,500 back in 2010. Today according to to The Term Sheet, Check (f.k.a. Pageonce), a Palo Alto, Calif.–based…
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Afternic.com Sells $1.18 Million In Domains Led By Philanthropist.com For $50K
Afternic.com just released its reportable weekly domain sales report for the week of 8/26/13 – 9/1/13, total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,180,925….
Sina Wins Legal Rights Objection on .Weibo & On .微博
Two separate WIPO panels upheld the objection of the Internet Giant Sina on two new gTLD applications both against the same applicant Tencent Holdings Limited of Shenzhen, China. The WIPO panels upheld…
On Day Of Hacking, Melbourne IT Announces CEO Theo Hnarakis will Step Down By the End of Year
Melbourne IT chief executive Theo Hnarakis will step down by the end of year after more than a decade as CEO according to afr.com The move comes on the day that it…
Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) Supports NTAG Letter on Name Collision; Except For Verisign
In a comment posted on ICANN website concerning the new gTLD name collision report, the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) issued a consensus statement that they support the letter submitted by the New gTLD…
Breaking: .Com Domain Name Registrations Top 110 Million Mark For The 1st Time
For the first time in the history of the Internet there are no more than 110,000,000 .com domain names registered according to Verisign. As of 8:36:10 AM UTC there are now over…
ICANN New gTLD Committee Kills Off Dotless Domains
The new gTLD Committee of ICANN just killed off Dotless Domains according to a resolution published last night. Google notified ICANN that it modified its application to operate .Search new gTLD from…