I would personally like to thank Escrow.com for sponsoring this list for another 6 months. As I stated many times, they are the reason I feel comfortable buying and selling names from complete strangers from all over the world and its an honor for them to be the sponsor of this daily list. On that [...] Continue reading →

A recent meeting hosted by Deloitte on 20-21 August in Brussels between the technical providers of registry and registrar services and the ICANN-selected vendors for the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) service (Deloitte and IBM) has been summarised by Jeff Neuman, Vice President of Business Affairs at Neustar. Highlights of the meeting as summarised by Neuman were: [...] Continue reading →

ICANN announced this week it will be holding its second meeting for 2013, and 47th all told, in Durban, South Africa. It will be the second time the organisation has held a meeting in South Africa, with Cape Town being the venue for the 21st meeting in December 2004. The proposal for the South African [...] Continue reading →

ICANN’s board of directors quizzed staff about the lack of a “thick” Whois obligation in Verisign’s .com contract, according to meeting minutes released last night. The vote was 11-0 in favor, with four abstentions, when the board controversially approved the deal during the Prague meeting in June. Director George Sadowsky raised the thick Whois issue, [...] Continue reading →

The location of ICANN’s second meeting in 2013 has been revealed as Durban, South Africa. A proposal submitted by the local ccTLD manager, .za Domain Name Authority, was approved by the ICANN board of directors earlier this week. It’s the second time ICANN has hosted one of its thrice-yearly public meetings in the country; in [...] Continue reading →

ICANN has named Olga Madruga-Forti, an Argentinian telecoms policy expert, as the newest member of its board of directors. Selected by this year’s Nominating Committee, Madruga-Forti will take over from R. Ramaraj when his second term ends at the Toronto meeting this October. According to the biography provided by ICANN, she has extensive experience of [...] Continue reading →

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