Frank Schilling’s new gTLD play Uniregistry becomes ICANN accredited and launches their retail registrar, Uniregistrar. Uniregistrar completed their accreditation earlier this month. The name and site clearly identifies it as being associated with Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry that is applying for 54 new gTLDs. The new site states: Uniregistrar is a new ICANN accredited registrar [...] Continue reading →

According to Larry Fischer at DirectNavigation.com, a well known domain space veteran has passed away.  Igal Lichtman was a very successful business man and domain name investor.   Many will remember him from forums and from his whois where he left his mark as Mrs. Jello.  He had an inspiring portfolio with many gems such [...] Continue reading →

ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) exclusively used for online adult entertainment, announces today that IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg, has secured an additional 25 Premium Domains in a deal worth $185,000.  This is the second significant order from IRIS who previously acquired $650,000 of premium names back in September [...] Continue reading →

Over the past week, 800 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.57m. Over 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: apuestas.com (bets in Spanish) at 165,000 EUR, almost 222,000 USD Top ccTLD: veterinar.se  (Veterinary in Spanish) at 8,000 [...] Continue reading →

As tweeted by George Kirikos, the court granted ICANN’s motion to dismiss Image Online Design’s (IOD) .WEB lawsuit. ICANN posted the “Order Granting ICANN’s Motion to Dismiss Complaint” (PDF) today on their site. IOD had applied to operate the .WEB gTLD in 2000, but ICANN did not select the TLD for the phase at the [...] Continue reading →

We are were blogging the auction live today at Webfest Global 2013 in Santa Monica, CA. Please note that DNN does not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Out of 61 domains listed in the live auction,22 domains sold for a total of $574,360 USD. The names not sold in the live auction will be [...] Continue reading →

Sedo is brokering Internet Real Estate Group’s Chocolate.com and the web business. The site is a marketplace for fine chocolates that lists 250 vendors and their over 5,000 products. “The Chocolate.com domain name and address is one of the most sought after plots of virtual real estate on the Internet,” said Andrew Miller, Managing Director [...] Continue reading →