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ICANN Public Comment Period for .com Registry Agreement with Verisign ends Tomorrow

(April 25, 2012)

The ICANN public comment period for the .com Registry Agreement renewal with VeriSign ends tomorrow on Thursday April 26th at 23:59 UTC. You can submit comments via to com-renewal@icann.org. In the second “reply” phase replies to the comments can be submitted limited to those who commented in the first phase – this phase will end [...] Related posts:

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Domain Index Added to Bloomberg and Reuters Websites

(April 25, 2012)

Sedo announced today that Bloomberg and Reuters have added IDNX, the industry’s leading domain price index, to the financial markets covered on their respective Web sites. IDNX provides insight into the current market value of domains, domain industry trends, and the risk-return ratio of domains as a financial asset. Using real estate economic methodology to [...] Related posts:

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This Week In Domains (week 17/2012)

(April 21, 2012)

Want to know what happened in the 17th week of 2012 week in the world of domain names? As reported… Here at DNN Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool ICANN Says new TLD Application System (TAS) Bug is fixed, QA in progress IANA [...] Related posts:

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Sedo Greatdomains, Moniker Auctions started & Auction Submission Deadlines

(April 20, 2012)

Sedo’s Greatdomains and Moniker have started a their online domain auction yesterday mid-day. While the Sedo Greatdomains auction will run for a week as usual, the Moniker auction, the first auction since the company was purchased by Keydrive, will run for almost a month. And the latest new entrant to the domain auction game, Brannans, [...] Related posts:

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Pool Releases Digital Archery Game for new TLD Applicants

(April 20, 2012)

And while we’re all waiting on ICANN to bring back the TLD Application System (TAS), Pool.com has released a game to promote their Digital Archery service. The game sets a time 10 seconds from the current  time and wants you to guess the the time is up. Pool’s Digital Archery service aims for new TLD [...] Related posts:

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DENIC and Netnod Team Up for Further Name Service Enhancement of .de

(April 19, 2012)

The operator for the German .DE ccTLD announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Swedish based Netnod, adding Netnods 35+ worldwide DNS locations to their own network. “We have chosen Netnod for their outstanding technical expertise and fully trust their competence to meet the high level demands associated with the operation of [...] Related posts:

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EnCirca Provides List of .Travel and .PRO Domains that are Expiring/New or in Auction

(April 18, 2012)

A few days ago the registrar EnCirca released new feeds (available via RSS and HTML) on their site that list new, expiring and auctioned domains in the .Travel and .PRO TLDs. According to EnCirca, News.pro recently sold for $3,600.00; credit.pro sold for $2,400.00 and irki.com sold for $1,200.00. [via EnCirca] Related posts: .TRAVEL registry proposes [...] Related posts:

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15 Million .DE Domain Names Registered

(April 18, 2012)

As per a press release sent out by DENIC, the German .DE registry operator, the 15th million .DE domain was registered today at 12:56pm central European time. The domain was “floristennetzwerk.de” (which translates to FloristNetwork.de). See the full press release after the jump. On 18 April 2012 at 12:56 CEST it was registered, the 15 [...] Related posts:

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IANA contract opened again for re-bid by the US government

(April 18, 2012)

After the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) had canceled the first RFP for a new IANA contractor because they “received no proposals that met the requirements“, the RFP was opened again for bids two days ago. ICANN had submitted a bid, which was not accepted by  NITA. The deadline for bids to the [...] Related posts:

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ICANN Says new TLD Application System (TAS) Bug is fixed, QA in progress

(April 17, 2012)

ICANN emailed another announcement regarding the security issue in the TLD Application System (TAS) has been fixed, but the fix is currently undergoing Quality Assurance testing and ICANN is still gathering the information required to contact the applicants and let them know. The application system will not open today; another announcement regarding the opening date [...] Related posts:

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