Dot Auto, LLC, one of the four applicants for the .AUTO gTLD (the other ones are Donuts, Fegistry, LLC and Uniregistry) has started their marketing for a potential launch of the gTLD, before they even know any results of the evaluation phase. The company launched .autoDOMAINIA, a “pre-registration and awareness solution”. The press release [...] Continue reading →

As per an announcement from ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade, Kurt Pritz, former Chief Strategy Officer at ICANN and gTLD specialist has resigned from ICANN. Until Pritz became Chief Strategy officer in October he was Vice President for Stakeholder Relations. During the new gTLD program he was the key person presenting many of the facts [...] Continue reading →

The SnapNames Year End auction ends today at 12:15 PM PST (3:15 PM EST) – in about five hours. Here are the listed domains with their current bids: Domain NameBiddersMinimum BidReserveReserve Status vzg.com143552Reserve: $1,001 - $2,500Reserve Met backupservice.com102200No ReserveReserve Met 1460.com72272Reserve: $1,001 - $2,500Reserve [...] Continue reading →

A Christmas gift from ICANN to new gTLD applicants? Information from today’s ICANN teleconference for new gTLD applicants. The new gTLD draw will take place on December 17th, 2012 (afternoon) Tickets for the draw have to be purchased before that date. Tickets will be for sale from December 12th to the morning of December [...] Continue reading →

This is a guest post by Kevin Ohashi. Kevin is a 10 year veteran of the domain industry. He currently is working his startup, Review Signal, which transforms the opinions people share publicly on social media into a review site for consumers. It currently provides web hosting reviews and will review domain registrars soon. I was reading Mark Cuban’s [...] Continue reading →

It’s not a major news story, but Sedo has finally decided to include the offer price in emails they send to domain owners . In the past, when Sedo emailed a domain owner about an offer that has been received, they did not send the offer price.  The email simply stated : “We are pleased [...] Continue reading →

Sedo’s weekly domain sales report has been published for the week ending yesterday, November 12th, 2012. This week, 919 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.2 million. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: paste.com at 100,000 USD [...] Continue reading →