4 more new gTLD's applications have been withdrawn bringing the total of withdrawn application to 38. The additional applications showing as being withdrawn as of tonight are: 欧莱雅 filed by L'Oréal with prioritization number of 72. This is an interesing one as it was expected to be in intital Evaluation with this Friday's ICANN release and therefore the applicant elected to take the 70% … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.5MM In Domains Led By WaitTime.com For $20K
Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 3/25/13 – 3/31/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,483,223. The highest sale was a domain owned by us, WaitTime.com, that sold for $20,000. Other reportable high dollar sales were gfa.com & referencebank.com, each separate transactions at $15K. Here … [Read more...]
NameJet.com Announces $460K in Sales In March
Namejet.com just announced its published sales for March totaling $460,000 Domain Name Payment … [Read more...]
Sedo.com Sells Over $1.25MM In Domains Led By elend.com for $140K
Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending April 1st, 2013. In all over $1.25MM domains were sold. The top seller was elend.com at $140,000 followed by schokolade.de for 63,000 EUR. In all, 704 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Just under 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable … [Read more...]
Horrible UDRP Ruling; No Trademark; No Bad Faith & No RDNH On 14 Year Old Domain RT.org
A one person UDRP panel rejected the attempt of the The Restored Church of God of Wadsworth, Ohio, to steal the domain name RT.org from Alexa Properties, LLC of Las Vegas, Nevada. But the bigger story is the panel failed to find Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) despite the panelist couldn't even attempt to utter the grounds for which she did not issue a RDNH finding. For one the … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes “Changes to Registry Agreement for New gTLDs”
ICANN has just posted the Revised Registry Agreement for Review "In the interest of transparency and accountability ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted "Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement" for the community’s information and review." "This revision reflects the inputs and comments received from our stakeholders and other members of the community." "We have … [Read more...]
.CO To Launch IDN’s In Chinese, Japanese and Korean on April 15th
According to a blog post tonight, the .Co registry announced they are launching Asian IDNs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. on April 15th, without a formal trademark sunrise, landrush period or grandfathering period for these three IDN languages. "With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and … [Read more...]