27
Mar
Thought Convergence is proud to announce the fifth annual Domain Roundtable conference, set to take place June 14-17, 2009, at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington DC. This year’s theme, Reaching Beyond: Shaping our Future Together, looks to assemble key players and decision makers from the domain, financial, legal and Internet technology sectors. Interested parties […]
27
Mar
Body.com was easily the biggest seller for Sedo in the week to March 16, selling for US$400,000. Second biggest sale for the week was gonghui.com that sold for $63,000 while the third biggest sale was lol.de, the biggest ccTLD sale of the week, sold for €35,000 ($47,250).
34.com and findadate.com were also reasonable sales selling […]
19
Mar
As your preferred marketplace for buying and selling domain names, Sedo is happy to announce a new transfer overview page and communication tool for domain transfers.
In an effort to make the domain transfer process more efficient and secure, Sedo Transfer Specialists will no longer be corresponding through email updates. Instead, transfer details will be accessible […]
18
Mar
It seems Lufthansa couldn’t get heir name via WIPO or similar means. Sedo brokered a deal for this TM.
17
Mar
SIDN has recently started receiving fresh complaints from registrars and registrants about a business called GT@P, whose activities previously attracted adverse comment in 2007.
GT@P approaches .nl registrants and urges them to have their domain names listed in the WorldWideWeb Register, so that the register remains up to date.
The cost of this listing service, which is […]
16
Mar
On 7 April 2009 we will make some changes to the process for amending poor quality registrant data.
When a registrant’s account is found to have poor quality or incorrect data, we will now initially notify the registrar with a request to update the data. If no update is received then the registrant will be emailed. […]
5
Mar
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5
Mar
There is a new Mozilla Firefox add-on that intents to keep internet users from visiting parked domains. The “Duck Duck Go Toolbar 1.1.4” blocks over 42 million parked websites (listed at ivegotafang.com) and keeps internet users from the advertisements that generate revenue for many domainers.
A block page notifies users who download the toolbar whenever they […]
4
Mar
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer is expected to outline on Wednesday what’s in store for a re-branded version of his company’s laggard search service, Live Search.
Ballmer will take the stage at Microsoft’s regular Valued Professional (MVP) summit, to discuss search, according to MVPs attending the summit.
The news came as Powerset co-founder turned Microsoft search strategist […]
4
Mar
ICANN appointed the Boston Consulting Group/Colin Carter & Associates to perform the external review of its Board of Directors.
Following publication of the independent reviewers’ report and of the feedbacks received from the community during a public comment period, the Board review Working Group issued an Interim Report for consultation with the Community, which was presented […]