Sedo’s No Reserve Auction

Sedo is pleased to announce our No Reserve Auction, the first themed auction of 2009. With everyone watching their budget this year, the domains offered without a reserve price in this auction are an affordable way to link customers to your business. Sedo’s No Reserve Auction (javascript:void(0);/*1235067000022*/) starts February 26th at 1:00 PM EST and ends March 5th at 1:00 PM EST. It’s simple, the highest bid over the starting price of $70 wins!

ICANN — Board Review: Interim Report Published

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 (http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-3-02nov08-en.htm#reports) and of the feedbacks received from the community during a public comment period (http://forum.icann.org/lists/board-review-report/msg00012.html) , the Board review Working Group issued an Interim Report for consultation with the Community, which will be presented at the ICANN meeting in Mexico City.

ICANN Delays New gTLD Application Process

ICANN is expected to release a revised Draft Applicant Guidebook this week as part of their consultation process in planning for the calling for applications for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs).

Financial Crisis Hits Global Domain Registrations, But Registrations Still Increase 16% in 2008

The global financial crisis has impacted on domain name registrations with global domain registrations rising 16 per cent in 2008 to a total of 177 million domain names compared to a 27 percent increase in 2007. Overall in 2008 there were approximately 300,000 less domain name registrations each quarter than there were in 2007, according to the fourth quarter 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign.

Aftermarket.com Domainer Mardis Gras Auction

Aftermarket.com has experienced delays in getting their domain auction
list confirmed. The problem arises from getting domain seller approvals
on their new zero per cent financing that is requiring extra time for
confirmation, according to a Twitter announcement (http://twitter.com/aftermarketcom/status/1217771298) from Susan Prosser of AfterMarket.com.

Nic-Panama to Release 230 Domains in March

Nic-Panama will be releasing 230 domain names to the public for
registration on Saturday March 14 2009 according to an email sent to
registrants and registrars.

ICANN – Public Comment: Fast Track Proposed Solutions

A public comment period opens today on a number of proposed implementation features in the “Fast Track” process, as well as an updated version of the Fast Track’s Implementation Plan .

The Fast Track is a mechanism to introduce a limited number of non-contentious internationalized country-code top level domain names (IDN ccTLDs) to the Internet.

In the initial draft of the Fast Track Implementation Plan, a number of open issues were identified that require further input from the community and need to be resolved to complete the implementation.

ICANN – Public Comment: Geographic Regions Charter

A community-wide working group has been established by the ICANN Board to undertake a review of ICANN’s Geographic Regions. The Working Group has developed a draft charter to guide its efforts. All members of the ICANN community are now invited to review that draft charter (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/geographic-regions/wg-draft-charter-18feb09-en.pdf) [PDF, 44K] and share comments and observations with the Board and community through 24 March 2009.

Background:

Voodoo.com auctioned this week!

Luxembourg, 18th
February 2009 -
Domain Invest (www.domaininvest.lu (http://www.domaininvest.lu/)) announces
the auction of the Domain Name voodoo.com on the 21st February during the
Domainer Mardi Gras auction held in New Orleans, at a start price of 300,000
USD.

Voodoo.com is part of an
extensive list of domain names being auctioned during this cutting edge
conference. Aftermarket.com will provide a live auction, which allows all participants
to bid in person or online at Aftermarket.com.

dotMobi Collaborates with GSMA for New Options with Award-Winning DeviceAtlas Product

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, Feb. 17, 2009 – dotMobi today announced its collaboration with the GSM Association (GSMA) to make the award-winning DeviceAtlas™ database available with an option for Type Allocation Codes (TAC). This will allow network operators to offer a host of new, innovative content and services tailored to users’ handsets. For instance, operators could send a welcome MMS to roaming customers with media-rich weather reports and links to local mobile Web sites rather than a static SMS network welcome message.