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Federal Commissioner for Data Protection says law enforcements requests for new RAA are against German laws

(May 18, 2012)

The law enforcement recommendations for storing additional information related to domain name registrations that are supposed to make their way into ICANN’s new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) might be against German data privacy laws, as Heise.de (German tech publication) reports. According to the response to Heise’s inquiry, The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom [...] Related posts:

Most Wanted Domains to report domain sales in realtime, buys mwd.com

(May 17, 2012)

According to a post on Most Wanted Domains newly launched Facebook page and a corresponding tweet, Michael Berken’s company is going to be reporting information on their domain sales through social media in real time, starting next week. It also appears that the company bought mwd.com for an undisclosed price – the domain currently redirects [...] Related posts:

SnapNames Spring Auction ends in 1 1/2 hours

(May 17, 2012)

The SnapNames Moniker Spring Auction is set to end in less than 1 1/2 hours – here are the current domains and their bids: Related posts: SnapNames Year End Auction Ends Today SnapNames Spring Auction & Sedo .TV Auction Ending Today Moniker/Snapnames iGaming Extended Auction Ends Today SnapNames Showcase Auction – Entertainment & Sports [...] Related posts:

Sedo sells over $2.1M USD in domains the previous week

(May 15, 2012)

Sedo sales just reported their domain sales for the week ending on May 14th, 2012. This past week, 947 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.1 million. 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: ahha.com at 112,000 USD Top [...] Related posts:

Sedo Sales for the Week up to May 7th, 2012 – 845 domains for over $1.6M USD

(May 8, 2012)

This past week, 845 reportable transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $1.6 million. 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: drill.com at 50,000 USD Top ccTLD: lampa.pl at 12,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: hotspot.net at 9,000 EUR See all of the sales [...] Related posts:

ICANN Offers new gTLD Applicants Refunds

(May 8, 2012)

As per an update sent out by ICANN earlier today the California not-for-profit is now offering applicants refunds of all paid fees (about $350M USD in total) if they would like to withdraw their application prior to the publication of the list of all new TLDs that received applications. The TLD Application System (TAS) exposed [...] Related posts:

$350 Million USD received by ICANN for 2,091 Applications

(May 5, 2012)

While ICANN latest update on the security loophole in the TLD Application System (TAS) doesn’t really hold any new information regarding the actual fixing of the problem and the updated new gTLD timeline, ICANN has decided to release more information from the time the system was taken offline: 2,091 applications were either submitted or in [...] Related posts:

StartUps.com shutting down Daily Deal site after a Year

(May 3, 2012)

In an email to its subscribers today, Startups.com Network, Inc. announced that they are shutting down their daily deal site, StartUps.com after a year. The company states that they “didn’t achieve the ambitious goals we set for ourselves when we launched only 1 year ago. ” While the letter does not state anything about the future of [...] Related posts:

ICANN Releases new TLD Application System Security Issue Update

(May 3, 2012)

ICANN has just emailed another updated regarding the interruption of the new gTLD Application process availability caused by a security hole in the TLD Application System (TAS). According to the report by Akram Atallah, COO of ICANN, they are still planning to complete the currently ongoing notification of applicants affected by the breach by May [...] Related posts:

DNN’s most popular articles in April 2012

(May 1, 2012)

The most popular posts on DNN in April of 2012 by web traffic were: XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers (04|15|2011) Joichi Ito Joins Tucows Board (12|15|2008) Frank Schilling’s InternetTraffic.com now powers 1,500,000+ domains (04|19|2012) Will Marchex Sell iPanel.com to Apple? (04|05|2012) First Brannans Domain Auction by Clements brothers yields $34,000 ( 04|09|2012) Google [...] Related posts:

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