Domain Name News

K.im Domain Name Gets $20,000 Bid at Sedo
May 20, 2013 @ 3:59 AM
One letter Isle of Man domain may sell for $20,000 at Sedo. The domain name K.im has a $20,000 offer at Sedo, and an “auction” for the domain name ends tomorrow. .IM is the country code top level domain for Isle of Man. According to DNSalePrice, a handful of .im domain names have sold over [...]
Did Google Just Kill Off Selling Subdomains?
May 20, 2013 @ 12:18 AM
On Friday Matt Cutts announced that Google would soon be imposing a change in the search algorithm that would limit the number of search results coming from one domain. The news was broke by SearchEngineLand.com, which said it will make it less “likely to see results from the same domain name, if you already have been shown that domain name in previous results three or four times before”…
New gTLD Program Posts 50 New Initial Evaluation Results: 41 Applications Get a Pass (Total is 341)
May 20, 2013 @ 12:16 AM
The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. The total number of passing applications is now 341. ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 350-400. There are 41 …
Google Protects WithGoogle.com Third Level Domains With Second Level Domains
May 19, 2013 @ 11:38 PM
Subdomains are great, but beware the typos. Have you ever come across a Google information page that’s a subdomain of WithGoogle.com? If you just go to Withgoogle.com you’ll be forwarded to Google.com. But type in certain third level domains, often referred to as subdomains, of WithGoogle.com and you’ll find specialized product pages. brasilfreewifi.withgoogle.com shows you [...]
Did GMO Flunk Evaluation On 27 Gtlds? Centralnic Takes Over The Whole Lot
May 19, 2013 @ 7:52 PM
Did would-be new gTLD registry services provider GMO Registry fail its ICANN technical evaluations? The Japanese company has made a deal that will see CentralNic take over the back-end operations for all 27 of the applications it was signed up to service, it has emerged. In a letter, provided by GMO to ICANN last week [...]
Fly9 Offers Services to Simplify New gTLD Sales
May 19, 2013 @ 6:39 PM
Portland-based developer Fly9 launched last week, offering new gTLD registries a broad range of software designed to make it easier to sell domain names. The company, founded by SnapNames and Afilias alum Ravi Surya, hopes its platform will help new gTLD operators tap into registrars’ customer bases in a soon-to-be-flooded market. “The problem with new [...]
ANA: “ICANN Fails to Address Key Concerns About New gTLDs”
May 17, 2013 @ 4:41 AM
On a post on its blog, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) rips ICANN for failing to “address Key COncerns About New gTLD’s. ”ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in late April announced that it would push back the date of the rollout of as many as 1,400 new Top Level Domain (gTLD) web site suffixes. It did so to address the numerous concerns raised by many organizations, including law enforcement agencies and its own Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which have called attention to the significant threat these new general top level domain names (TLDs) could pose to brands and consumer protections without adequate protective mechanisms being put in place…
Two Failures Among Latest 44 New gTLD Results
May 17, 2013 @ 2:30 AM
ICANN has released its weekly batch of new gTLD Initial Evaluation results and it includes the program’s second and third failures. Two dot-brand applications — .olayangroup and .mckinsey, filed by Olayan Investments and McKinsey Holdings — didn’t get passing scores and are now categorized as “Eligible for Extended Evaluation”. Both — like the only other [...]
40 New Gtld’s Apps Pass IE: .chrome; .bbc; .americanexpress; .bmw; .ads
May 17, 2013 @ 2:27 AM
ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD’s that passed Initial Evaluation today. Some of the highlights of those applications passing IE are Google’s applications for .Chrome, .Soy, .How, and .Ads; The British Broadcasting Corporation application for .BBC; Top Level Domain Holdings first new gTLD application that was not an IDN passed today with the passage of its application for .Blog….
ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming in From Last Resort Auctions
May 17, 2013 @ 12:36 AM
If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to go into the $xx,xxx,xxx range.