Sedo has released final results from a series of three short .AT auctions that surprised even them by bringing in over $1 million. [...] Continue reading →

Sanwa.com leads the pack at over $30,000. If I could summarize Sedo’s end user sales during the holiday week, it would be a lot of companies buying the .com domain to match their country code domain names. Even though ccTLDs are more popular than .com in some countries, it’s always good to have .com, especially [...] Continue reading →

It should come as no surprise that the Federal Communications Commission will substantially change its regulatory approach, wingspan and philosophy under a Trump appointed Chairman. One can readily predict that the new FCC will largely undo what has transpired in previous years. However, that conclusion warrants greater calibration. As a threshold matter, the [...] Continue reading →

Nic.at’s three-stage auction of one and two-character .at domains has raised over $1 million. Auction house Sedo announced today that over 1,000 .at names were sold, for a combined total of over $1 million. The biggest-ticket name was c.at, which went for €56,000, according to Sedo. Bidders were not restricted to Austria or German-speaking nations. [...] Continue reading →

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The promise not to sue ICANN that all new gTLD applicants made when they applied is legally enforceable, a California judge has ruled. Judge Percy Anderson on Monday threw out Donuts’ lawsuit against ICANN over the controversial $135 million .web auction, saying the “covenant not to sue bars Plaintiff’s entire action”. He wrote that he [...] Continue reading →

ICANN’s new domain Transfer Policy, which comes into effect tomorrow, creates risks for users of privacy/proxy services, registrars and others haved warned. The policy could lead to private registrants having their contact information published in the public Whois for 60 days, the GNSO Council expects to formally tell ICANN this week. “This could threaten privacy [...] Continue reading →