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Domain Name Wire
Donuts disses Independent Objector. Panelist disses Donuts. .Medical is dead.
The independent objector has killed Donuts’ application for .medical. Prof. Alain Pellet, the independent objector for the new top level domain name program, has won (pdf) a community objection against Donuts’ application for .medical. Th...
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Donuts disses Independent Objector. Panelist disses Donuts. .Medical is dead.
The independent objector has killed Donuts’ application for .medical. Prof. Alain Pellet, the independent objector for the new top level domain name program, has won (pdf) a community objection against Donuts’ application for .medical. Th...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 9:47 pm
The Domains
GAC Communiqué: Wants To Look At “Public Policy Implications of Holding Auctions to Resolve String Contention”
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just issued its Buenos Aires Communiqué from the ICANN Meeting and “requests a briefing on the public policy implications of holding ...
Discussion
GAC Communiqué: Wants To Look At “Public Policy Implications of Holding Auctions to Resolve String Contention”
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just issued its Buenos Aires Communiqué from the ICANN Meeting and “requests a briefing on the public policy implications of holding ...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 9:01 pm
The Domains
Verisign Publishes Last Part Of Series On Possible Domain Collision: “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”
Verisign Published its final part of its 4 part series on domain collision and the new gTLD program entitled “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”on the final day of the ICANN Meeting in Argentina. Here it is: “ICAN...
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Verisign Publishes Last Part Of Series On Possible Domain Collision: “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”
Verisign Published its final part of its 4 part series on domain collision and the new gTLD program entitled “SLD Blocking Is Too Risky Without TLD Rollback”on the final day of the ICANN Meeting in Argentina. Here it is: “ICAN...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 8:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
CM.com was deleted and is unregistered…but you can’t have it
CM.com was deleted this year, but is unavailable for registration. If you pop on over to DomainTools and type in the domain name CM.com, you might be surprised to see that it is not registered: But when you visit your domain name registrar, you&rsquo...
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CM.com was deleted and is unregistered…but you can’t have it
CM.com was deleted this year, but is unavailable for registration. If you pop on over to DomainTools and type in the domain name CM.com, you might be surprised to see that it is not registered: But when you visit your domain name registrar, you&rsquo...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 7:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Yahoo! sells Sandwich.com for $137,500, and here’s the history behind 9 other domain names it sold at auction today.
Today Yahoo! sold domain names that it picked up by acquiring Broadcast.com, HotJobs.com, Overture, and many others. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for dot.com nostalgia. Watching the Yahoo! domain name auction on Sedo today brought back memorie...
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Yahoo! sells Sandwich.com for $137,500, and here’s the history behind 9 other domain names it sold at auction today.
Today Yahoo! sold domain names that it picked up by acquiring Broadcast.com, HotJobs.com, Overture, and many others. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for dot.com nostalgia. Watching the Yahoo! domain name auction on Sedo today brought back memorie...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 6:44 pm
The Domains
Yahoo Sells Sandwich.com For $137,500 On Sedo
Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich for $137,500 on Sedo today as part of its themed auction. Only a handful of domains seemed to hit reserve and sell with Sandwich.com being highest sale by far. The domain name was first registered on July 3rd, 1997...
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Yahoo Sells Sandwich.com For $137,500 On Sedo
Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich for $137,500 on Sedo today as part of its themed auction. Only a handful of domains seemed to hit reserve and sell with Sandwich.com being highest sale by far. The domain name was first registered on July 3rd, 1997...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 6:39 pm
The Domains
New gTLD .UNO Selects Sedo For Sunrise & Landrush Auctions & Broker Premium Domains
Dot Latin LLC who is the registry for the new gTLD .Uno has selected Sedo, to conduct sunrise and landrush auctions, define a premium list of the extension’s most valuable assets and provide brokerage and additional auctions for its premi...
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New gTLD .UNO Selects Sedo For Sunrise & Landrush Auctions & Broker Premium Domains
Dot Latin LLC who is the registry for the new gTLD .Uno has selected Sedo, to conduct sunrise and landrush auctions, define a premium list of the extension’s most valuable assets and provide brokerage and additional auctions for its premi...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 4:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo gets exclusive deal with Famous Four Media for new TLDs
Famous Four to handle sunrise, landrush, and premium sales through Sedo. Sedo has announced its second big new top level domain name deal this week. The company has signed an agreement with Famous Four Media, applicant for 57 new top level domain nam...
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Sedo gets exclusive deal with Famous Four Media for new TLDs
Famous Four to handle sunrise, landrush, and premium sales through Sedo. Sedo has announced its second big new top level domain name deal this week. The company has signed an agreement with Famous Four Media, applicant for 57 new top level domain nam...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 3:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Animation.com and XZ.com meet reserves, will sell in Heritage Auctions domain name auction tonight
Two six figure sales already for domain name auction taking place tonight. The official live auction for Heritage Auctions’ domain name auction, the first ever domain auction by a major auction house, is tonight in New York City. But early inte...
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Animation.com and XZ.com meet reserves, will sell in Heritage Auctions domain name auction tonight
Two six figure sales already for domain name auction taking place tonight. The official live auction for Heritage Auctions’ domain name auction, the first ever domain auction by a major auction house, is tonight in New York City. But early inte...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 2:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Get a sneak peek of the new ICANN.org website
A beta of the new ICANN.org website is now live. ICANN is finally getting a new website, not just the minor facelifts it has received in recent years. ICANN Labs is working on a new ICANN.org website and hopes to launch it publicly in February. It is...
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Get a sneak peek of the new ICANN.org website
A beta of the new ICANN.org website is now live. ICANN is finally getting a new website, not just the minor facelifts it has received in recent years. ICANN Labs is working on a new ICANN.org website and hopes to launch it publicly in February. It is...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 2:30 pm
