Just as the 44th ICANN meeting in Prague ended yesterday, ICANN has opened  registration for the 45th ICANN meeting in Toronto, to be held Oct 14-19th 2012. Even though the site says “Prague is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in the world“, I’m pretty sure it’s still in Toronto with CIRA, the [...] Continue reading →

As announced by ICANN today, the new gTLD Program Director Michael Salazar has resigned. Kurt Pritz has been appointed to take on direct oversight of the entire New Generic Top-level Domain Program in an interim capacity. He will assume the responsibilities of New gTLD Program Director in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Vice President [...] Continue reading →

The first joint Snapnames/Moniker and Afternic auction ends today at 3:15pm EDT. Here are the current domains & bids. Domain NameBiddersCurrent BidReserveRangeReserveStatus citytrade.com7725$201 - $500Reserve Met hipsters.com416500$5,001 - $10,000Reserve Met throat.com38000$5,001 - $10,000Reserve Not Met cookinghealthy.com32000$1,001 - $2,500Reserve Met [...] Continue reading →

Sedo’s no reserve auction ends today at noon EDT. Here are  the current bids and domains: DomainPriceBidsCategory watchlivesoccer.com330 EUR13Sports/Soccer dubaitrips.com310 EUR21Recreation/Outdoors/Other golddubai.com120 EUR3Science/Technology/Mining einzelgaragen.de110 EUR2Business/Human Resources/Outplacement zinssatz.org110 EUR2Business/Financial Services/Mortgages vacancyscanner.com110 EUR2Recreation/Radio marvin.de110 EUR2Computers/History [...] Continue reading →

This guest post was writting by Phil Corwin. Mr. Corwin is Founding Principal of the Virtualaw LLC consultancy and serves as Of Counsel to Greenberg & Lieberman and as for the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), all located in Washington, DC. This post is his personal opinion. Expect the unexpected. Because it will happen. And [...] Continue reading →

Sedo’s published a quantitative analysis today on which new gTLD applications may be most successful, worth the investment and in demand by end users.  According to statistical analysis by Sedo, the top 10 most valuable domains being sought are: 1 SHOP 2 WEB 3 SITE 4 [...] Continue reading →

In the official Microsoft blog, Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Office at Microsoft, writes more about the company’s goals and movitation when participating in ICANN’s new gTLD application round. Microsoft applied for 11 new gTLDs “most of which correspond to [Microsoft's] existing trademarked products, services and brands“: .microsoft, .windows, .xbox, .office, .docs, .bing, [...] Continue reading →