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ICE.COM 3.5m Sale One of 20 Biggest Re...
The domain name ice.com sold for $3.5 million to Intercontinental Exchange, who currently use theice.com as their home online and where ice.com is currently redirecting. According to the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales of all time, a chart that has been compiled since 2003, it would be the 14th biggest sale ever and the biggest since the November 2016 sale of HG.com for CNY 26,000,000 (then $3,770,000) according to Domain Name Journal. The largest rep
More Domain Industry Consolidation as ...
The British-based CentralNic has acquired the parent company of the German Key-Systems, KeyDrive, for $35.8 million it was announced today. The acquisition will see the combined group become the 11th largest registrar globally by generic top level domain volume and will be among the top 5 registry service providers by number of registry clients. Key-Systems, which his owned by a holding company called KeyDrive based in Luxembourg, includes a number of prominent domai
Donuts Hurts .NEWS Credibility in Sale...
Donuts this week announced the sale of 7 .news domain names to Webseed in a 6-figure deal that happened in 2017 with websites appearing for the domain names earlier this year. But has Donuts gained 'a six-figure price' but just hurt the top level domain's reputation by selling, and promoting the sale of, such prominent domain names to a company that has no news credibility and could easily be described as provider of clickbait and science denials? The domain names so
World.Rugby launches .rugby as global ...
World Rugby has made history by launching the .rugby internet domain name, kicking-off a digital revolution that will deliver multiple promotional benefits to the global rugby community. World Rugby's website has become www.world.rugby and all of the international federation's digital properties, including email addresses, are being seamlessly transitioned as part of a phased major digital re-brand. With competition for a share of the youth audience in the digital sp
.GR Launches . on 10 July
Greece's internationalised ccTLD .?? is set to launch on 10 July at 11:00 local time, the registry has announced. In an announcement by the registry ICS-FORTH GR, they advise that the registration of domain names under the .?? country code top level domain will be possible for every interested person or legal entity, as long as the domain name of choice (or any homographs) is not already registered under .gr. To begin, ICS-FORTH GR explains, for a period of 3 months
CENTR Publishes Report on ICANN62
Didn't get to the ICANN meeting in Panama? Spent too much time at the bar and need to catch up on what's been going on? Or were working elsewhere in your own meetings and want to catch up on what happened? If so, CENTR has the answer. They've published their 'Report on ICANN62'. The 8 pages of reports on the meeting covers a ccNSO Report and a GAC Report, which included a GDPR update on the implementation of the temporary specification. To download the CENTR report,