An IDN ccTLD criticized as βuselessβ by locals when it was approved five years ago has fewer domains today than it did at launch, and a portfolio of web sites even a Simpson could count on one hand (twice). The Greek-script .Ξ΅Ο (.xn--qxa6a) is one of two internationalized domain name versions of the European Unionβs [β¦]
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Verisign has agreed to take down abusive .com domains under the next version of its registry contract with ICANN. The proposed deal, published for public comment yesterday, could have financial implications for the entire domain industry, but it also contains a range of changes covering the technical management of .com. Key among them is the [β¦]
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Verisign will retain its power to increase .com prices by 7% a year, and prices in other gTLDs could well go up too, under a new proposed registry contract designed to help patch up ICANNβs budget. The proposed .com Registry Agreement was posted for public comment this evening, and the pricing terms within could have [β¦]
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Yes, two companies can operate with names that differ by one letter. A chemicals company has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name sichem.com. Sipchem Europe S.A. is part of the Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem), founded in 1999. The company filed a cybersquatting dispute with World Intellectual [β¦]
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Another expired domain buyer was a victim of the same clawback. A second plaintiff has joined a lawsuit against GoDaddy over expired domain clawbacks. In August, Crisby Studio AB sued GoDaddy after the registrar clawed back the domain calor.com, which Crisby Studio had purchased for $11,405 on GoDaddy Auctions about two months prior. Crisby had [β¦]
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Domain investors may shoulder additional risk when they register domains in the relaunching .ad TLD, judging by the registryβs new cybersquatting policy. Andorra Telecom, which will make .ad names generally available globally October 22, has signed up with WIPO to implement an adapted version of the UDRP that is a lot less friendly to domainers. [β¦]
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The GNSO Council has approved a blanket ban on singular and plural versions of the same word being delegated as gTLDs in future and passed it to the ICANN board of directors for final consideration. The proposed policy would prevent anyone applying for the singular/plural equivalent of an existing gTLD, and would put future applications [β¦]
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Applicants learn how much theyβll have to pay for new TLDs. Today, ICANN announced the fee it expects to charge applicants in the next round of new top level domain names: $227,000. This is more than the last round in 2012, when applications cost $185,000. The organization believes this is the cost necessary for the [β¦]
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Amazonβs Early Access Periods for the new .now and .deal gTLDs have so far netted at least three premium-priced sales. Zone files reveal that so far .now has three new EAP domains but .deal has none. The .now domains are, perhaps predictably, porn.now and news.now, which were both registered via Gandi, and free.now, which was [β¦]
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Itβs $227,000. Thatβs the minimum ICANN expects to charge for each new gTLD application in the Next Round. The Org confirmed the price, which is $42,000 more than it charged in 2012, in a blog post this afternoon. Itβs toward the low end of the $208,000 to $293,000 range discussed in June, but up on [β¦]
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ICANN has upped its expected new gTLD application fee after approving a costly new plan to tack name collisions. The baseline price of applying for a single string, most recently pegged at $220,000, is now expected to go up by $5,000, according to a recent resolution of the ICANN board of directors. The board earlier [β¦]
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Despite the description, you donβt have control over how your listings migrate. I previously wrote about how I was opting out of the Dan.com-to-Afternic migration. I stopped using Dan.com a while ago and list everything at Afternic, so I didnβt think it made sense to migrate. But I went ahead and downloaded my data from [β¦]
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A running organization, a music festival, and a customized gift wrap seller bought domain names. Sedo had some interesting end user sales this week, although there were no notable big-ticket sales (at least that were publicly disclosed). Hereβs a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view previous [β¦]
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