Apparently the Online Gambling site by the Province of British Columbia was not brought down by too much traffic after opening, as originally reported. The Globe and Mail now reports that the site was actually taken down because of a breach privacy that allowed players to see other player’s fi...

Sedo has launched a new website for the “Sedo Pro World Tour” Events. The event takes place in five different cities across the world over the course of seven months. The tour starts off in the city of the US headquarter of the company, Boston and ends at the European headquarter in Colo...

Before tomorrow’s General Availability Launch of the .CO ccTLD domain registrations, today is the final day to place pre-orders. The local Colombian based registrar Mi.Com.Co has launched a site offering the top 300 places in its registration queue. Prices start at $300 and are lowered the lat...

While the US state of Kentucky is fighting online gambling by seizing domain names, the Canadian Province of British Columbia has decided to try to get a part of the online gambling cake and was apparently overwhelmed by its success. The British Columbia Lotter Corporation had launched its controver...

Two days after the Estonian Registry operator, Eesti Internet, has gone live with their new registry system, they added another 1,329 new domains, effectively doubling the amount of registrations processed over the course of the preceeding two months. The new model of the registry for .EE domains is...

In 2008 Jothan Frakes held an impromptu survey for registry service providers for new gTLDs at the ICANN meeting in Paris. The results were then consolidated into a matrix and published on the Names At Work blog by his friend Antony van Couvering – unfortunately DNN could not locate the inform...

Rick “DomainKing” Schwartz has just posted a press release on his blog according to which he sold the domain name Punchbowl.com to Punchbowl Software, Inc , a developer of party and event planning website. The sales price of the domain has not been disclosed and the company states that i...

The parent company of Minds + Machines, Top Level Domain Holdings [AIM: TLDH] reported their revenue for the period to the end of April with £32,000 ($49,000), with a loss of £462,000 ($708,000). The company is pretty much in a holding pattern until the release of the new gTLDs by ICANN and is exp...

SnapNames’ .US domain auction in honor of Independence Day ends in about 7 hours at 3:15pm ET. So far only 20 of the 86 domains have received bids. AirlineTickets.us is currently leading the pack with a bid of $1,615, but many domains such as candy.us, slots.us and flights.us are not attractin...

As  Andrew at Domain Name Wire revealed, Fabulous.com is going to be releasing a new solution for Registrars and Resellers by the name of Yexa. According to the PDF published on the preview site, that also hosts a sign-up form for the beta of the software, The software is going to allow customers t...

It’s official. While already announced and demonstrated at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Vancouver, the alternative parkign platform WhyPark has just sent out a press release announcing their launch of “Domain Apps“. Fittingly they also purchased DomainApps.com and poin...

In a recent decision in the dispute for the domain name Evoq.com, the WIPO panel let the original registrant keep the domain name. However the 3-person panel did not agree how exactly the “bad faith” criteria should be applied. The panel was not clear whether it mattered if a domain name...

As reported by DNN on twitter, Oversee.net’s CEO Jeff Kupietzky was a guest on “The Call” on CNBC yesterday. Here’s a video of the interview. [via Youtube User "friendsofepik"] (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Upcoming Domain Industry Events, Conferences & Auct...

This Messages Appears on the Seized Domains US Authorities announced today in a press conference held at Disney Studios in Burbank that their new initiative “Operation in Our Sites” seized nine domain names linked to websites that could be used to download pirated content. The initiative...

The sex.com saga continues. Escom, LLC the holding company that owns the domain name went into foreclosure earlier this year. An auction for the domain name had been scheduled for March, but was stopped last-minute. As reported before on DNW, Sedo now confirmed that they are going to be the broker f...

Sedo’s sales report for the preceding week has just been released. Highlights include videodating.com and knowyouroptions.com at 50,000 USD each, and vermietung.de (German for “rental”) at 23,000 EUR (appx $28,000 USD). According to the updated whois, KnowYourOptions.com was purchased by F...

This morning NameMedia has announced the launch of the Afternic Portfolio Manager, which is a web service API that can be used by large domain portfolio holders to manage their names listed on the Afternic Markeplace remotely in realtime. TurnCommerce [ed. mostly known from their NameBee site], a le...

According to Kieren McCarthy ICANN’s general counsel read a statement at the start of the public forum at the current ICANN meeting in Brussel, stating that the Board had accepted the results of the independent review panel and thus would approve the .xxx TLD tomorrow. The board had delayed th...

The Australian based company Trellian has just sent an email to its registered users announcing the launch of the “Trellian AdNetwork“, which allows the purchase of direct navigation domain traffic. The traffic originates from the domains parked on the Above.com Domain Parking Manager. A...

According to news posted on QueenOnline, the Tucows/OpenSRS’ YummyNames Unit has donated the domain FreddieMercury.com to Freddie’s estate. From the statement on QueenOnline: In a recent act of fantastic generosity, domain registrar company Tucows Inc. secured the domain name FreddieMerc...

This week’s reported sales by Sedo are lead by the sale of 027.com, pengyou.com & pengyou.net, each with a sales price of 100,000 USD. See the full list of reported Sales by Sedo after the jump. Domain name Date Price Currency Translation .COMs 027.com 2010-06-15 100,000...

The 2011 DOMAINfest conference, held by Oversee.net will return to this year’s venue, the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, again taking up the entire hotel. The event will take place from February 1-3. From the press release: The highlights from last year’s conference included a keynote fires...

According to a press release, hosting company Web.com is to buy one of the older domain registrars, Register.com, for $135 million USD. David Brown, President & CEO of Web.com, stated, “We are very excited to announce our agreement to acquire Register.com, which will bring highly complemen...

While everyone involved in ICANN topics is gearing up to fly to Brussels for the 38th ICANN meeting, the travelers are joined by the Free Speech Coalition’s (FSC, trade organization of the adult industry) Executive Director Diane Duke and FSC Board Vice President Tom Hyme. The two are attendi...

The domain sales reported by Sedo for last week at lead by the sale of kredit.com, meaning credit in German for 220,000 Euro, which is about $271,000 USD. Other noteworthy sales include: ChinaVision.com for $75,000 USD ubp.com for $70,000 USD ContainerDienst.de (ContainerService in German) 29,750 E...