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Domain Index Added to Bloomberg and Reuters Websites
by Frank Michlick on Apr.25, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: 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 estat…
Sedo Greatdomains, Moniker Auctions started & Auction Submission Deadlines
by Frank Michlick on Apr.20, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: 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, B…
Pool Releases Digital Archery Game for new TLD applicants
by Frank Michlick on Apr.20, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: 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
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DENIC and Netnod Team Up for Further Name Service Enhancement of .de
by Frank Michlick on Apr.18, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: 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 t…
EnCirca Provides List of .Travel and .PRO Domains that are Expiring/New or in Auction
by Frank Michlick on Apr.18, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: 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 …
IANA contract opened again for re-bid by the US government
by Frank Michlick on Apr.18, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: 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 bi…
ICANN Says new TLD Application System (TAS) Bug is fixed, QA in progress
by Frank Michlick on Apr.16, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: 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 announ…
LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool
by Frank Michlick on Apr.16, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: As just announced in blog post, LeadRefs has just released their latest version of their lead generation tool. The new version of the tool now mashes up the data of the list of dropping and expired domains with the amount of leads available to sell the domains. It also has a paid membership now –
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Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years
by Frank Michlick on Apr.16, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: 8 years after the introduction of Google’s Gmail email offering, it appears it has settled a dispute over the use of the brand in Germany as shown by a transfer filing with the German patent office. When Google introduced the service worldwide in 2004, they encountered problems with the name in Germany, England and Switzerland, whic…
ICANN new TLD Application System may have shown data from other applicants
by Frank Michlick on Apr.13, 2012, under News
Domain Name News: According to a statement by ICANN the shutdown of the new TLD Application System (TAS) on what was to be the last day of the application window has been caused by a potential bug that “allowed a limited number of users to view some other users’ file names and user names in certain scenarios“. So
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