Wednesday, 16 March 2011 07:09 Domain News
XXXBook.com domain name was recently sold through the Sedo domain name marketplace for $100,000 .Currently,the domain name resolves to page that calls itself the "Facebook of Sex" .
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 23:26 David Goldstein
ICANN launched its Registrar Data Escrow (RDE) program in November 2007 in order to help protect domain name registrants in the event of the failure or de-accreditation of their registrars. Through the program, registration data for nearly 127 million gTLD names has been escrowed, thereby creating a backup of the most critical data needed to transfer management of domains from one registrar to another, in the event of de-accreditation. Escrowed registration data has been used on at least four occasions to facilitate transition of registrations from de-accredited registrars to successor registrars.
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:39 David Goldstein
RU-CENTER, the Russian Network Information Center, has launched RUCLID (Russian Cultural and Linguistic Internet Domains), an initiative for the introduction of top level domains intended for cultural and linguistic communities living in Russia.
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 12:54 David Goldstein
The US government is opposed to proposals for the International Telecommunications Union to have a veto over ICANN board decisions, said Larry Strickling at the welcome ceremony for the ICANN Silicon Valley-San Francisco meeting on Monday.
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 07:33 Domain News
ICANN announced in a blog post that Bill Clinton’s talk with the ICANN community will also include questions from the audience .The questions are being accepted ia email .
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 07:30 Domain News
EuroDNS,and two other companies ,that collectively operate 12 separate registrars across Europe,have joined recently one of the largest domain listing service,Afternic DLS .
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 07:29 Domain News
"It’s paramount to say that ‘.africa’ being among the latest top level Internet domains being routed for registration, could not come at a better time when the world has adequately prepared for over a decade for IPV6," said Gideon Rop, a DCA contributor.
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Tuesday, 15 March 2011 07:27 Domain News
Rod Beckstrom, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said the organization’s multi-stakeholder model has been validated over many years by the smooth and reliable functioning of the Internet.
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Monday, 14 March 2011 13:40 David Goldstein
Former ICANN staffer and now consultant Kieren McCarthy has posted a guide to the ICANN San Francisco meeting currently underway. The guide lists the most important issues to be discussed in the meeting that ends this Friday.
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Monday, 14 March 2011 12:28 Domain News
Alexa Raad,who announced the formation of a new company—Architelos, Inc., predicts deregulation of the domain name market will require current players to re-assess and likely re-position their businesses as the walls between wholesalers (registries) and retailers (registrars) crumble and the domain name system (DNS) expands with the expected introduction of many new top-level domain names (TLDs).
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Monday, 14 March 2011 07:29 Domain News
Neustar and PIR announced a while ago that starting April 1,2011 ,the prices for .org and .biz domain name registration will increase .
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Monday, 14 March 2011 07:27 Domain News
Groupon has recently won Groupon.ie domain name through arbitration . .ie comes from the country code domain name for Ireland .
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Monday, 14 March 2011 07:26 Domain News
The National Agency for Network Services (NANS) on Sunday launched the registration service on Syrian Arab top level domain (.Syria) so that establishments, companies and individuals could get Arabic titles for their websites.
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Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:51 Domain News
GolfHolidays.com domain name was recently sold through the Sedo domain name marketplace for 50,000 GBP ($80,000 ) .Sedo had a big week including many five figure domain name sales .
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Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:50 Domain News
The National Arbitration Forum announced that a ruling has been issued in favor of Baylor University regarding rights to the internet domain name Baylor.org .
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Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:49 Domain News
RegistryPro, the exclusive operator of the .PRO top-level domain on the Internet, today announced it has surpassed 100,000 registered names for the first time in its seven-year history.
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Saturday, 12 March 2011 07:23 Domain News
Moniker is holding an auction for .TV domain names on SnapNames .The auction will end on Wednesday,March 23rd at 3:15 pm .
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Saturday, 12 March 2011 07:22 Domain News
ICANN announced recently that its 2012 meeting will be held in Toronto,Canada.The meeting will be held 14-19 October 2012 at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel.
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Saturday, 12 March 2011 07:21 Domain News
Following on from the first survey of the Quality of Service rendered to registrars in 2009, AFNIC renewed the initiative at year-end 2010 as part of a continuous improvement process for its indicators.
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Saturday, 12 March 2011 00:44 David Goldstein
For those not attending the ICANN meeting in Silicon Valley-San Francisco and who want to follow President Bill Clinton’s speech, there will be a live feed on the ICANN website.
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