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VeriSign has announced that as of July 1, 2010, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65
Egypt’s communications minister Tarek Kamel earlier today announced the introduction of the first Arabic top level domain (TLD), in a step easing Internet access to millions of Arabic speakers around the world.
From midnight (2200 GMT), registration will begin for the .misr (the romanized Arabic name for the country of Egypt), country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Tarek Kamel made the annoucement earlier at the fourth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh Read Sea resort.
AFP Press release here
Afilias have just announced their RFP (Request for Proposals) for the reallocation of “Old Sunrise names”
“Afilias is accepting proposals from parties that wish to register one or more of the domain names subject to the Program (“Proposals”). Proposals shall be evaluated on the manner in which the applicant proposes to enhance the .INFO brand through its use of the domain name(s).”
Proposals are sort for around 1200 names and includes names like
America.info,
Aspen.info,
London.info,
Lottery.info,
Music.info,
Scotland.info and Tech.info.
Cost $250 per application.
List of .info domain names to be made available to the program.
The judges for the 2009 .info awards competition have selected the top 10 finalists allowing you to vote for your favourite .info site
The final 10 are
Cast your vote here (closed)
Press release here
The 2009 Afilias .INFO Awards are open to any .INFO site owner, in any country.
The call for entry opens on October 7, 2009 and runs through October 23, 2009. No submissions will be accepted after 11:59 p.m. October 23, 2009.
Details @ http://www.info-award.info/about
US$7500 – 1st Prize
US$5000 – 2nd Prize
US$3000 – 3rd Prize
Sedo has just completed it’s auction of 1 character .biz names rasing $369,195*. The highest price made was $66,001 for e.biz
$32,003 … 1.biz
$ 5,801 … 2.biz
$ 7,601 … 4.biz
$ 7,601 … 5.biz
$ 8,100 … 6.biz
$ 7,877 … 7.biz
$ 8,200 … 8.biz
$ 7,901 … 9.biz
$10,099 … a.biz
$10,005 … b.biz
$ 8,988 … c.biz
$26,110 … d.biz
$66,001 … e.biz
$ 8,250 … f.biz
$ 9,400 … g.biz
$ 8,177 … h.biz
$ 8,250 … j.biz
$ 6,900 … k.biz
$ 7,999 … l.biz
$15,611 … m.biz
$ 8,001 … n.biz
$ 7,878 … p.biz
$ 8,855 … r.biz
$ 8,211 … s.biz
$ 7,602 … t.biz
$10,099 … u.biz
$ 6,100 … v.biz
$13,500 … w.biz
$10,099 … x.biz
$ 8,988 … y.biz
$ 8,988 … z.biz
* These results were noted during the live auction so may contain errors. Also some of the domains sold may not have been paid for yet.
o.biz is to launch on the 31st October aiming to give small businesses and customers the opportunity to buy large quantities at deep discounts for restaurant, office, and hotel products.
Overstock.com Chairman and CEO Patrick Byrne said the .biz extension was chosen because “The .BIZ extension is appealing to growing, innovative businesses. Our goal is to have O.BIZ help small to medium-size businesses save money by leveraging the purchasing power of Overstock.com.”
Overstock’s o.biz press release here
Sedo announced yesterday it has been awarded the contact from Neustar, the registry operator for the .biz gTLD, to auction the enitre available catalogue of single character .biz names – a.biz … z.bz and 0.biz …9.biz.
The auction will begin at 12:00 noon (EDT) on 23rd September and close at 11:59 a.m (EDT) on 30th September, 2009.
The Sedo auction of single character names can be found at www.sedo.biz
NeuStar has just announced subsequent to recent ICANN approval it will make single and two character .biz names availble for regisgtration.
From their press release
“In a phased rollout, NeuStar will now make these highly desirable domain names available to the global business community through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process, followed by an offering at auction of those domains not allocated to RFP respondents.
“Specifically, NeuStar will begin accepting RFP responses for the 36 one-character letters and numbers on June 1, 2009, with a response deadline of July 30, 2009.
“Once the one-character RFP round is concluded, NeuStar will proceed to an auction phase for those names and will begin accepting RFP responses for the two-character domains. Proceeds from the auction of the remaining one- and two-character domains will be used to further promote the .BIZ brand for the benefit of all .BIZ domain users.
Nextgov are reporting Senators are pressing Commerce Secretary Locke and Assistant Secretary-Designate Larry Strickling to pay close attention to the relationship between the U.S. government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The joint project agreement (JPA) which allows the US Government’s oversight of ICANN is slated to sunset on Sept. 30 amid accountability and transparency concerns.
The National Telecommunictions and Information Administration (NTIA) is currently seeking public omments regarding the future of the JPA.
Press release, Notice of Inquiry, Comments received
Nextgov news report Senators push to monitor ICANN-government relationship
GPM Group 