ICANN announced today (23 May) that Bryan Schilling will be joining as the organization’s first Consumer Safeguards Director, reporting directly to Jamie Hedlund, SVP Contractual Compliance and Consumer Safeguards. Bryan brings over 15 years of international law and government affairs experience to ICANN, the majority of which is derived from working on data privacy and…
Category: Domain News
Sedo weekly sales led by Leem.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Leem.com was the top sale at $30,000. OnlyYou.com sold for $27,000. Songs and movies have both been titled Only You, so this is a pretty cool buy. Country codes were dominated by .De and .Ca, 3 sales for the Canadian extension on the week. Bit.Trade sold for $9,360 as…
Brand gTLDs Beating to a Different Drum: INTA Meeting
The pressures on brands to get their new gTLDs to market are different to those with registrations that rely on paid for registrations. For brands, the pressure is to get what they want… right. At the International Trademark Association (INTA) Annual Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, that’s running from 20 to 24 May, there was a…
Homes.Forsale and Houses.Forsale sell for $90,000
Robert Bruce a self described expert in online marketing strategies, wrote an article on Entrepreneur.com that he purchased two .forsale domains for $90,000 in total. From the article: The startup I’m currently building aims to modernize real estate marketing, and is scheduled to launch this summer. To position myself in the market, I opted for…
ICANN Meeting Participants Now Need To Validate Email Address
As part of an ongoing process to improve the security of our web applications, the ICANN Registration website will now require that all potential meeting participants verify their email address to complete the registration process. This added layer of security is designed to ensure the validity of user email addresses and reduce the amount of…