CENTR has launched its call for nominations for the third edition of its CENTR Awards, which aim at highlighting country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry projects, teams and people that make a difference in the domain name industry. The goals of the CENTR Awards, which are open to all full and associate CENTR members, are…
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ICANN Reiterates It’s Not An Online Content Regulator Following Claims It Should Do More On Child Abuse
ICANN has once again come out and said it’s job is not to regulate content online. In a post on the ICANN blog, Akram Atallah, President, Global Domains Division, writes following concerns from the Children’s Charities Coalition on Internet Safety that new gTLDs “may become new grounds for the functioning and distributing of child abuse…
China Approves 5 Afilias TLDs For Sale Within Country
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has awarded 5 of Afilias’ gTLDs licences to allow them to be sold within the country, the registry operator announced last week. The gTLDs, 3 of which are legacy generic top level domains – .info, .pro and .mobi, and 2 of which are new gTLDs – .red,…
Trio of Six-Figure Domain Name Sales Top Weekly Chart
Asset.com proved to be a damn good asset when it sold for $406,000 to top the Domain Name Journal weekly chart of top reported sales for the week ending 26 March in a sale brokered by Sharjil Saleem. But it was one of a trio of six-figure sales with casino.online coming in second in a…
Daily Domain Picks 4-10-17 – TLD Investors
Daily Domain Picks 4-10-17 Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-10-17 Powered by ExpiredDomains.com LeadLabs.com good lab related name, a lot of lab/labs names getting registered and bought lately. A lot of names added to BrandBucket recently. PharmaStudy.com 0 bids so far but for the right end user good be a decent spec. Vents.com expired, 55…