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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:

The right “domain name strategy” generates millions for Verizon

(May 6, 2012)

Washington DC based FairWinds Partners announced on Friday that a custom domain name strategy designed for Verizon, the telecom and internet giant, which has been implemented since mid-2008 has now generated 31 million visitors per year on average to the various Verizon owned websites/internet properties. An additional 321,000 confirmed online sales were reported to be [...] 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:

.XXX domains, The Hard Numbers

(April 30, 2012)

DNN recently analyzed the top 1,000,000 most heavily trafficked and popular websites in the world, according to Alexa, and the results were shocking when we specifically looked at the now 1 year old active dot XXX extension. Our research revealed that only 61 developed websites that are using the .XXX extension placed inside the top [...] Related posts:

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:

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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