International Sugar Organization (ISO) modifies it’s protected IGO acronym to “ISOSUGAR” The International Sugar Organization sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on the 29th of May saying that because if the International Organization for Standardization complaint to ICANN about the preventative protection for the acronyms of Intergovernmental Organisations (IGO), it allows it...
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Moniker Doing a Service-wide Password Reset Moniker’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Moniker network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access a number of Moniker user accounts. So Moniker is doing a Service-wide Password Reset and … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 6:46
Radix Registry Announces Launch of Pre-Registration for .host Domains Radix Registry, operators of the upcoming .host TLD announced the launch of pre-registration for .hostdomain names. .Host has received a prioritization number of 1096 and has not yet passed the initial evaluation by ICANN. .host is the new TLD created specifically for the hosting industry, and one of … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 18:24
Sedo sells 743 domains worth $1.2 million: WBM.com $35.877 USD, Forks.com $32.500 USD – Week 10/6... This week, 743 transactions (746 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling$1.2 million ($1.3 last week). Only 248 domains (251 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains were either private sales or domains that sold for less than 700 USD/EUR/GBP. Over 47%(43% last week) of total sales w...
OnlineDomain.com - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 11:16
ICANN Signs an Accountability Framework with the ccTLD manager for .ME (Montenegro) ICANN has announced today that it has signed an Accountability Framework with the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) manager for .ME (Montenegro), the Ministry for Information Society and Telecommunications of Montenegro, on 13 May 2013. The Accountability Framework program provides two mechanisms by which ccTLD managers can forma...
OnlineDomain.com - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - 0:16
Sedo latest sales: LowCostVitamins.com 17,5k USD, SpiritFlix.com 15k USD, etc. Here are some of the most notable sales at Sedo during the past week. These are sales that were published after the latest Sedo report was released last Tuesday. Please find below the list of domain names that were sold for $5,000 or more: lowcostvitamins.com 17,500 USD spiritflix.com 15,000 USD roupasdebebe.com.br 10,000 USD sliced....
OnlineDomain.com - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 11:41
Demand Media Announces Designs.com to Support New gTLDs Demand Media, a leading media and domain services company, today announced the debut ofDesigns.com, the latest step in the company’s efforts to facilitate the launch of upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Today’s move brings a robust platform to create complementary, high-quality web … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 6:16
Trying to locate Charles Christopher (aka Ilikeinfo) I am trying to locate Charles Christopher (aka Ilikeinfo from domainstate.com). We used to talk all the time about .info domains mainly both by email and at the DomainState.com forum. I haven’t talked to him for a few years now and I send him an email at “domains … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Monday, June 17, 2013 - 16:11
New gTLD program posts 100 new Initial Evaluation results: 92 applications get a pass (total is 720) The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 720 (was 628 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numb...
OnlineDomain.com - Monday, June 17, 2013 - 13:48
3rd week NameJet results of Tucows domains: USSR.com $9,320, Rattler.com $5,802, etc. On May 15th NameJet announced a partnership with Yummy Names (owned by Tucows) to auction an exclusive list of 97 premium domain names. These domains are available exclusively at NameJet. Here are the results of the third week domain name auctions: Sold domain names: ussr.com $9,320 rattler.com $5,802 thecircus.com $5,099 … Con...
Pool.com Doing Scheduled Maintenance June 14-15 Pool.com will be doing scheduled maintenance on June 14-15 so their website is going to be offline for 24 hours. Any closing auctions, or auctions scheduled to begin, will be postponed by 24 hours. Here is their notice: Between 20:00 GMT (4:00 PM EDT) on Friday, June 14, until approximately 20:00 GMT … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Friday, June 14, 2013 - 19:42
.US sales at Go Daddy auctions: SanDiego.us $3,756, Maps.us $2,755 etc. A few days back Go Daddy had a lot of expiring auctions for .US domain names. Most of them were registered since 2002 and more than 250 .us domains were auctioned off. Total sales were for more than $12,000 USD. And that excludes the renewals at about $14 each … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Friday, June 14, 2013 - 11:25
Microsoft sends letter to ICANN about Google’s Dotless Domain to its .search gTLD Microsoft sent a letter to ICANN about Google’s Proposed Dotless Domain to its .search gTLD.Microsoft expressed its continuing concern over Google’s proposed amendment to run its gTLD application for .search as a “dotless” domain, as Microsoft strongly urges ICANN to follow the advice of the SSAC and ensure that dotless domains are...
OnlineDomain.com - Friday, June 14, 2013 - 9:26
ICANN terminates Elserver SRL’s registrar accreditation with 0 domains after failing to pay fees ICANN sent a notice of termination of registrar accreditation agreement for the registrar Elserver SRL on the 12th of June 2013. Elserver SRL’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) dated 15 March 2010 was terminated pursuant to Section 5.3.4 of the RAA.The termin...
OnlineDomain.com - Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 20:30
Pocket Domain dropped 700+ .info domains from its Alfena registrar Pocket Domain dropped 700+ .info domains from its Alfena registrar a few weeks back. Most of thedomains were registered during the 2003-2009 period. Most of the domains were owned by PocketDomain that used to run a small backorder service calledDropCatcher.Info (or DropCatcher.org). PocketDomain runs a few registrars like Alfena and ...
OnlineDomain.com - Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 13:3
Sedo Rolls Out Updates to the Buyer Control Panel But… Sedo rolled out some updates to the “Buyer Control Panel” but this feels more like a bug fix than an update. Sedo’s goal was to make buying a domain name easier, so they just made some updates to theirBuyer Control Panel. Customers now have a more intuitive interface that makes it easier to … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 9:57
Greek national broadcaster’s website ERT.gr is down again This morning I reported that while the Greek National TV and Radio Organization (ERT) was shut down on June 11, 2013, the official ERT website ert.gr was moved to a new server on June 12, 2013 and was run by the employees protesting the closure. Before the ERT closure … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 3:20
Greek national broadcaster’s website ERT.gr is down again This morning I reported that while the Greek National TV and Radio Organization (ERT) was shut down on June 11, 2013, the official ERT website ert.gr was moved to a new server on June 12, 2013 and was run by … Continue reading →
OnlineDomain.com - Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 22:24
