Yesterday at the ICANN board meeting when the .XXX extension was approved by a 9-3 vote, 4 Board members abstained from voting including the CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom. While one vote…
LogicBoxes Passes 5 Million Domain Mark
LogicBoxes a Directi company, announced this week that its now power over 5 million domain names. LogicBoxes powers the back end of many registrars and resellers. “Over 20% of the world’s ICANN…
Will Sun.com Hit The Sales Block? Oversee.net Predicts $1 Million – $2 Million; Godaddy $800-$900K
The domain name Sun.com is owned by Oracle which got the domain when they bought Sun Microsystems last year for $7.4 billion. Last Thursday, Oracle, announced in a blog post that it…
ICM: “.XXX Domain Names Will Only Be Available To The Adult Entertainment Industry”
In a press release by the ICM Registry just hours after winning ICANN’s approval to run the .XXX registry, some clarification has come to light which will answer some questions people have…
BREAKING NEWS: After 7 Years & Over $12 Million Dollars, ICM Gets The .XXX Extension
Today at the ICANN meeting in San Francisco, the ICANN Board voted 9-3, with 4 board members absenting, to approve ICM application to run the .XXX registry. There was substantial opposition to…
ICANN Lays out The Timeline & Promises A Vote & A HUGE Party On New gTLD Program At The June Singapore Meeting
The ICANN board laid out a new time table for the new gTLD program at its meeting in San Francisco this morning. Bottom line final response to the Government Advisory Counsel will…
Backorder Price Wars: NameJet.com Lowers Minimum Bid On Pending Delete Domains to $59
Just weeks after SnapNames.com increase it minimum bid on pending delete domains to $69, Namejet.com just announced it was lowering the minimum bid on pending delete domains to $59. Here is the…