Apparently the Online Gambling site by the Province of British Columbia was not brought down by too much traffic after opening, as originally reported. The Globe and Mail now reports that the site was actually taken down because of a breach privacy that allowed players to see other player’s financial information and even use their funds for gambling.

“Someone could be playing away with [someone else's] money,” said BCLC president and CEO Michael Graydon.

A total of about $8,000 had to be redistributed once the errors were discovered and affected individuals tracked down, he said.

As well, bits of the personal data of 12 players were viewed by others, including some numbers on their credit cards, Mr. Graydon said.

“We reacted very quickly and in a transparent way to the customers involved, and we will make sure this does not happen again,” he vowed.

“We are one of the first jurisdictions in the world to do this. … It’s a new frontier, and technology is changing very rapidly.”

In an unrelated charge the Lottery Corporation also faces a $600,000 fine by the federal Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), but is planning to appear.

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Sedo has launched a new website for the “Sedo Pro World Tour” Events. The event takes place in five different cities across the world over the course of seven months. The tour starts off in the city of the US headquarter of the company, Boston and ends at the European headquarter in Cologne in February during the month of the big local Carnival. Here are the planned events:

• Boston, USA (August 31 – September 1, 2010)
• Seoul, Korea  (September 10-11, 2010)
• Tuscany, Italy (October 8-9, 2010)
• London, UK (November 2010)
• Cologne, DE (February 2011)

As previous events, this tour remains exclusive to SedoPro members.

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Before tomorrow’s General Availability Launch of the .CO ccTLD domain registrations, today is the final day to place pre-orders. The local Colombian based registrar Mi.Com.Co has launched a site offering the top 300 places in its registration queue. Prices start at $300 and are lowered the later the spot in the queue is. Currently the site shows 50 registrations pending approval.

Domain Name Wire has published a handy guide listing a number of registrars where .CO domains can be registered.

Disclaimer: The .CO registry is one of our advertisers along with the company that operates the 300.com.co website.

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While the US state of Kentucky is fighting online gambling by seizing domain names, the Canadian Province of British Columbia has decided to try to get a part of the online gambling cake and was apparently overwhelmed by its success.

The British Columbia Lotter Corporation had launched its controversial online gambling site, PlayNow.com, last Thursday and was shut down by the initial spike of traffic.

“It’s been an overwhelming success with people in British Columbia to the point where we hit 100 per cent capacity in the first day,” Michael Graydon, president of the corporation, said Friday.

“So we decided to close the site down for a half a day, add some new hardware and servers to the system to be able to accommodate it. We’re in the process of doing that. Our IT people are working very hard to get it up and running.”

The site is still offline today. It will include casino games, bingo, sports, lotteries and other games and is expected to generate about $100 million in revenue.

[Via CBC]

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Two days after the Estonian Registry operator, Eesti Internet, has gone live with their new registry system, they added another 1,329 new domains, effectively doubling the amount of registrations processed over the course of the preceeding two months. The new model of the registry for .EE domains is now based on selling domains through  accredited registrars instead of direct sales through the registry. The changes went along with a broadening of conditions, allowing more people to register .EE domains:

(from the site:)

• individuals are now able to register .ee domain names. For instance, they can use an e-mail address in the form firstname@lastname.ee;
• foreign nationals can now register .ee domain names. For instance, they can set up an Estonian-language e-service environment;
• one person can register more than one .ee domain name. For instance, if a company has several trademarks and wants to represent them all on the Internet under the .ee domain, they now can;
• registration of domain names will start taking place at two levels, meaning that the Estonian Internet Foundation has delegated the provision of service to registrants to registrars. The list of registrars is posted on the Estonian Internet Foundation website; and
• a regulatory fee has been established for domain names. The amount of the fee for registrants will be determined by registrars on the open market based on competition.

The transition to the new domain rules also applies to all .ee domains registered according to the old rules. These will be subject to a six-month transition period during which the domain registrants must choose a registrar and renew their domain registration with the registrar.

In parallel to the transition to the liberalised domain system, an independent body will be established within the Estonian Internet Foundation in order to resolve disputes related to domain names – the Domain Disputes Committee. The objective of the committee is to provide an expedited procedure as an alternative to judicial procedure so as to resolve any cases of misuse of domains where registration of a domain violates the rights of third parties, such as in the case of trademark infringement.

[via DomainPulse]

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In 2008 Jothan Frakes held an impromptu survey for registry service providers for new gTLDs at the ICANN meeting in Paris. The results were then consolidated into a matrix and published on the Names At Work blog by his friend Antony van Couvering – unfortunately DNN could not locate the information on the site today. Now, two years later and a bit further into the introduction process for new gTLDs- ICANN has published the 4th revision of the Applicant Guidebook for New gTLDs – Jothan Frakes has started a follow-up survey.

The first survey also seems to have had a big part in funding of the new gTLD service & consulting company Minds + Machines, which Frakes was part of. Now that he is not with the company any more, he can once again collect data in an independent survey of the registry services industry.

The survey will run until August 4th, 2010 and service providers (for ccTLDs & gTLDs) interested in having their information included can participate here: Registry Service Provider Survey

[Via Jothan Frakes' Blog]

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Rick “DomainKing” Schwartz has just posted a press release on his blog according to which he sold the domain name Punchbowl.com to Punchbowl Software, Inc , a developer of party and event planning website. The sales price of the domain has not been disclosed and the company states that it still working on a new site for the domain. Currently the domain name redirects to their site “MyPunchbowl.com“.

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The parent company of Minds + Machines, Top Level Domain Holdings [AIM: TLDH] reported their revenue for the period to the end of April with £32,000 ($49,000), with a loss of £462,000 ($708,000). The company is pretty much in a holding pattern until the release of the new gTLDs by ICANN and is expecting finalization of ICANN’s new gTLD Applicant Guidebook by November and is hoping for the opening of the first round at the ICANN Meeting in December. The company still has almost £4m in cash and equivalents and appears to have been bootstrapping operations. One of the former key-employees, Jothan Frakes, is not with the company any more. Potential threats to the company could be further delays of the release of new gTLDs through litigation.

[via DomainIncite]

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SnapNames’ .US domain auction in honor of Independence Day ends in about 7 hours at 3:15pm ET. So far only 20 of the 86 domains have received bids. AirlineTickets.us is currently leading the pack with a bid of $1,615, but many domains such as candy.us, slots.us and flights.us are not attracting any bidders, even though names like this would sell in other extensions (slots.com and slots.ca are amongst recently reported sales). See the full list of domains up for bids on the SnapNames website.

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As  Andrew at Domain Name Wire revealed, Fabulous.com is going to be releasing a new solution for Registrars and Resellers by the name of Yexa. According to the PDF published on the preview site, that also hosts a sign-up form for the beta of the software, The software is going to allow customers to sell domains, SSL certificates and Hosting.

DNN chatted with Jen Sale about the launch and the features of the new product via Instant Messaging. Read the full interview and learn more about the new product after the jump.

DNN: Thank you Jen for taking the time to talk to DNN today about this new product by the name of Yexa you are going to be launching at HostingCon. Can you tell us more about it?

Jen Sale: Thanks Frank! Of course. Approximately six months ago, we were on the hunt for an all-inclusive platform to manage a new retail registrar. We spent almost two months researching and testing a number of solutions but found them confusing, incomplete and expensive. Plus, there wasn’t just one solution that would do everything we required, or at the level of quality we expect for both ourselves and our customers. It was at this point we discussed creating our own solution, and many of the people we spoke to along the way expressed great interest in what we planned to develop.

For our initial product release, we have developed two software solutions – Yexa Registrar and Yexa Reseller. These two products are designed to work in conjunction with each other, and will address the gap we believe exists in the current marketplace. Yexa Registrar provides a fully functional white-labelled registry-registrar manager with a built-in reseller network. Yexa Reseller provides a cohesive, easy to set up and use, retail-facing domain and hosting solution.

DNN: So who are those two solutions mostly meant for existing registrars and resellers or new ones? It seems an interesting expansion of focus for you, considering you are launching it at a hosting conference.

Jen Sale: The two software solutions will cater to both existing and new registrars and resellers.

Yexa Registrar services individuals with ICANN and/or other ccTLD accreditation. This allows them to manage either their own personal domains directly (domainers), or operate a retail registrar with the option of creating their own reseller network.

Yexa Reseller services people wanting to run a retail-facing domain and hosting business, regardless of whether they’re an ICANN registrar or not. Existing resellers who wish to expand their customer offerings, and/or explore better provider offerings, can integrate Yexa Reseller which will support existing software via a comprehensive API.

One of the things we’ve been repeatedly asked for is an interface similar to Fabulous.com, and whether we’d be white-labelling it in the future. So this product is really a natural progression for us in offering domain services to our domain portfolio customers, and also extending into new business.

We’ve been on both sides of the fence, and have found the market distinctly lacking in suitable solutions, and we think we can do better.

DNN: Considering Fabulous.com’s background it seems that the software is mostly focused on selling domain names, yet the brochure also mentions SSL Certificates and hosting. Are you going to be offering a suite of different products?

Jen Sale: Yexa Registrar is targeted to domain operators (registrars). Yexa Reseller enables someone to create and manage a website which sells a number of web services, which may include domains, hosting, SSL certificates and more.

Yexa is fully flexible and provider neutral. It aims to provide a maximum level of choice to resellers, no longer tying them down to a single provider. Moreover, its modular structure will allow third parties to write custom extensions, in turn expanding choice even further and allowing resellers to provide innovative offerings to their end-users.

DNN: That sounds like a very smart and forward thinking platform design.

Yexa is described as a  software in your material and on the site, but yet the description (at least for Yexa Reseller) sounds more like it is actually a hosted service for your clients. Can you share some more details on how a reseller or registrar sets Yexa up on their own server? What is handled on the customer’s side, what’s taken care of on your end?

Jen Sale: Yexa is a software application which is installed on the clients server platform of choice. The software has been designed to run on either Windows, Linux or OS X. The databases supported are MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Minimum supported PHP is 5.1.

In most cases the client’s customer IP belongs solely to them and is stored on their servers. Only in certain situations where we distribute information on their behalf (such as WHOIS data) does customer data need to be stored on our servers.

DNN: This sounds like a good solution to an age-old problem as to who owns the customer.

From what I understand you’re aiming at a very easy wordpress-like install of the software. So does this mean you don’t need to be too technical to use your solution, but yet one can also build on it if there is technical in-house knowledge (since there is an API)?

Jen Sale: Our primary goal was to create an easy-to-use solution which has the flexibility to cater for more sophisticated requirements, and to grow with the client’s business.

DNN: Can you tell us anything about the pricing structure yet, or is this too early to ask?

Jen Sale: Yexa Registrar pricing is a tiered cost-plus model. Whereas Yexa Reseller is a tiered monthly software license, plus cost per provider unit model.

Our pricing will be extremely competitive!

DNN: Yexa is an interesting name for the product – how was the name chosen? I can see from the whois history that it was apparently bought from a Canadian Domainer – is it an abbreviation or just a short name?

Jen Sale: We chose the name because it’s short and easy to remember. No, it doesn’t abbreviate to anything.

DNN: Judging from the whois the company is a separate entity – is it wholly owned by Dark Blue Sea or is it a division of Fabulous.com?

Jen Sale: Yexa is wholly owned by Fabulous.com’s parent company, Dark Blue Sea.

DNN: You took care of the DomainDistribution Network before and Yexa is your latest project – what was and is your involvement with this new product?

Jen Sale: I’ve been closely involved with the project since its inception, and have the dual role of Product Manager and Business Development Manager. I will also continue to manage the Domain Distribution Network and ROAR.

DNN: Thank you very much Jen again for taking the time for chatting with DNN and telling us more about your new product. We’re looking forward to learning more as the work progresses.

Jen Sale: You’re very welcome Frank! Thanks for the opportunity. If anyone would like more information, please sign-up for our exclusive beta program at www.yexa.com.

The following is a guest post by Michele Neylon, founder of the web hosting company Blacknight and chairman of the working group asking for feedback in this article. Since ICANN policy affects us all, we encourage our readers to provide their feedback on the issues identified by the working group.

ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) has formed a working group to consider changes to the domain transfer process to enhance security and reduce hijacking.  The working group consists of registrars, aftermarket players, domainers and other members of the ICANN Community.  The group published its preliminary recommendations at the ICANN meeting in Brussels two weeks ago and the 20-day comment period has just begun.

The key areas of focus for the working group are as follows:

1. Whether a process for urgent return/resolution of a domain name should be developed, as discussed within the SSAC hijacking report (http://www.icann.org/announcements/hijacking-report-12jul05.pdf; see alsohttp://www.icann.org/correspondence/cole-to-tonkin-14mar05.htm);
2. Whether additional provisions on undoing inappropriate transfers are needed, especially with regard to disputes between a Registrant and Admin Contact. The policy is clear that the Registrant can overrule the AC, but how this is implemented is currently at the discretion of the registrar;
3. Whether special provisions are needed for a change of registrant near a change of registrar. The policy does not currently deal with change of registrant, which often figures in hijacking cases;
4. Whether standards or best practices should be implemented regarding use of Registrar Lock status (e.g., when it may/may not, should/should not be applied);
5. Whether, and if so, how best to clarify denial reason #7: A domain name was already in “lock status” provided that the Registrar provides a readily accessible and reasonable means for the Registered Name Holder to remove the lock status.

Comments by registrants, registrars and other interested parties are strongly encouraged and can be viewed at:

http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/#irtp-b-initial-report

The deadline for submitting comments is 25 July, 2010.

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It’s official. While already announced and demonstrated at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Vancouver, the alternative parkign platform WhyPark has just sent out a press release announcing their launch of “Domain Apps“. Fittingly they also purchased DomainApps.com and pointed that domain to their product description. In a nutshell the new service allows their customers to place different applications (=apps) on their domain names and thus expanding their system into a modular parking platform. The update to the platform offers the following apps:

• Comparison Shopping (may earn additional revenue)
• Hotel Directory
• Local Business Listings
• Online Flash Games
• Twitter Stream
• Weather
• Web Directory (sell listings and earn $)
• YouTube Videos

See the full press release after the jump.

WhyPark Enhances Domain Development Platform with ‘Domain Apps By WhyPark’

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands  — July 6, 2010 — WhyPark, the scalable domain development division of Parked.com, Ltd., announced today the launch of “Domain Apps By WhyPark”.  The new release to the WhyPark platform allows customers to add depth, relevant engaging content and functionality, through the use of one-click installs, to domain names hosted at WhyPark.

“The next evolution of WhyPark has arrived and I am excited to make Domain Apps By WhyPark available to our customers”, said Craig Rowe, founder of WhyPark.  “Customers have been demanding new engaging applications that will attract and retain visitors to their sites.  Domain Apps By WhyPark offers just that through relevant search engine friendly text as well as video, photos and data.  I am pleased with the launch of our new Domain Apps service and look forward to building upon it in the future.”

The following Domain Apps are now available to WhyPark customers:

• Comparison Shopping
• Hotel Directory
• Local Business Listings
• Online Flash Games
• Twitter Stream
• Weather
• Web Directory
• YouTube Videos

Several Domain Apps also provide new revenue streams including the Web Directory and Comparison Shopping Domain Apps. WhyPark is already developing new Domain Apps and will continue to enhance the service to meet customers’ needs.

“I am very excited about WhyPark’s new domain apps,” stated Elliot Silver, founder of Silver Internet Ventures, LLC. “Domain Apps will allow me to add unique features and functionality to some of my geo-domain and niche industry websites, which I know will increase stickiness and revenue.”

To learn more about Domain Apps by WhyPark, visit http://www.whypark.com/domainapps/

About WhyPark – www.whypark.com

WhyPark’s innovative scalable domain development platform allows customers to build relevant, engaging websites in minutes. Whether managing a few hundred or several thousand domains, WhyPark gives customers the freedom and flexibility to easily develop domain portfolios to generate traffic and increase revenue.

About Parked.com, Ltd. – www.parked.com

Founded in 2006, Parked.com, Ltd. offers domain parking solutions for domain name owners. Parked.com leverages technology for dynamic domain name optimization providing leading edge parked pages that are relevant to what internet users are looking for and ensuring targeted traffic for advertisers. With clients worldwide who combined own 6,500,000 domain names, Parked.com has aggressively become a leader in the domain parking space.

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In a recent decision in the dispute for the domain name Evoq.com, the WIPO panel let the original registrant keep the domain name. However the 3-person panel did not agree how exactly the “bad faith” criteria should be applied. The panel was not clear whether it mattered if a domain name was registered in bad faith when compared to the complainant’s trademark, or if this criteria could be applied against any existing trademark.

From the decision (emphasis added):

Faced with the fact that the Domain Name was registered in 2004, well before the Complainant was formed in 2007, the Complainant argues that the Domain Name was registered in bad faith directed at General Motors, which had announced a concept car called “Evoq” in 1999.

Some members of the Panel are inclined to conclude that, to prove bad faith registration, the Respondent must have had a bad faith intention with respect to the Complainant’s mark. However, the Panel does not need to reach a definitive conclusion on that issue because, even if bad faith directed at third parties could constitute bad faith for the purpose of this requirement, the Panel does not find the existence of any such bad faith on the evidence in this case.

So while the panel clearly thought that the domain owner did not register this domain in order to infringe on the complainant’s brand, at least one panelist thought it may have been infringing on another companies’ brand and thus could potentially constitute a bad faith registration.

In a conversation with DNN, Zak Muscovitch of DNAttorney commented as follows:

Zak Muscovitch at DomainConvergence

The Complainant’s position is absurd. The Complainant argues that the Respondent should be found to have registered the domain name in bad faith, even though the Complainant wasn’t even in existence at the time the domain name was registered, because the disputed domain name was registered after  an unrelated third party; General Motors, acquired trademark rights. The fact that the Complainant was able to adopt EVOQ as a trade name and trademark for its communications and branding business years after General  Motors acquired trademark rights,  in ostensible “good faith”, means that  the Respondent was equally able to register the domain name in good faith notwithstanding General Motor’s limited rights. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. EVOQ is a name that could lend itself to any number of business endeavours. This is a case of attempted domain name hijacking in my opinion, pure and simple.

[Thank you safesys/DBR]

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As reported by DNN on twitter, Oversee.net’s CEO Jeff Kupietzky was a guest on “The Call” on CNBC yesterday. Here’s a video of the interview.

[via Youtube User "friendsofepik"]

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This Messages Appears on the Seized Domains

US Authorities announced today in a press conference held at Disney Studios in Burbank that their new initiative “Operation in Our Sites” seized nine domain names linked to websites that could be used to download pirated content. The initiative partners law-enforcement officials with representatives of the entertainment industry.

“American business is under attack from counterfeiters and pirates,” Immigration and Customs’ Assistant Secretary John Morton said at the press conference. “Internet crooks threaten the U.S. economy on a grand scale.”

Officials said that the seized sites had attracted 6.7 million visitors in a single month.The seized domain names and their registrars were:

• TVShack.net (TodayNic)
• Movies-links.tv (DirectI)
• Filespump.com (DirectI)
• Now-movies.com (GoDaddy)
• PlanetMoviez.com (eNom)
• PirateCity.org (Active 24)
• zml.com (BIZCN)
• NinjaVideo.net (eNom)
• NinjaThis.net (eNom)

Some of the domain names do not resolve, while the majority of them displays the “seized” message shown in a screenshot on the left. Not all of the registrars involved are located in the US.

[via The Wrap]

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The sex.com saga continues. Escom, LLC the holding company that owns the domain name went into foreclosure earlier this year. An auction for the domain name had been scheduled for March, but was stopped last-minute. As reported before on DNW, Sedo now confirmed that they are going to be the broker for the sale of the Sex.com domain name. Parties interested in buying the Sex.com domain should contact Sedo at consult@sedo.com.

Even though Mike Mann had conditionally offered to donate his portion of the domain to PETA, it appears that the IRS will not allow him to deduct the amount as a donation.

See the full press release after the jump.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 1, 2010 – Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and broker of super premium domain names, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Escom, LLC to privately broker the sale of Sex.com, widely considered to be the world’s most valuable domain name, as well as two related trademark registrations with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

“We are excited to be working with Sedo and believe Sedo’s vast experience, expertise with high value domain names, credibility and worldwide network of clients will ensure that Escom receives a price for the sex.com domain name and its related trademarks that reflects its true value as the best domain name in the world” said Del Anthony, CEO of Escom.

“It is an extremely rare opportunity that a domain name of this caliber becomes available for sale”, said Kathy Nielsen, Director of Sales at Sedo. “We are very pleased to be chosen as the exclusive brokerage firm to represent this domain sale. Short, descriptive domains are an amazing marketing vehicle. The sale of sex.com presents potential buyers with a once in a lifetime opportunity. The possibilities for this domain are endless and will enable the new owner to instantly define itself as a leader in its industry.”

Descriptive domains that define a category historically have been the most valuable properties on the Web. ‘Sex’ continues to be one of the most searched for terms on the Web and its mainstream appeal has grown exponentially over the past few years. The new owner of this domain will enjoy a clear competitive advantage as a market leader, dramatically enhanced organic search rankings, tremendous traffic generated from direct navigation and an unsurpassed ability to drive online marketing and branding initiatives.

Parties interested in buying the Sex.com domain should contact Sedo at consult@sedo.com.

About Sedo

Sedo, an acronym for “Search Engine for Domain Offers,” is the leading domain marketplace and monetization provider. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Sedo has assembled the world’s largest database of domain names for sale, with more than 16 million listings. The success of Sedo’s model has attracted a global membership base of more than 1 million domain professionals.

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Sedo’s sales report for the preceding week has just been released. Highlights include videodating.com and knowyouroptions.com at 50,000 USD each, and vermietung.de (German for “rental”) at 23,000 EUR (appx $28,000 USD). According to the updated whois, KnowYourOptions.com was purchased by Fannie Mae, a secondary mortgage market company. VideoDating.com, now owned by someone who lives near Toronto, looks like a website preview at this point in time, not yet featuring any real functionality on the site, but static pages. The domain was owned by Steve Newman before, who was the president of Greatdomains.com (owned by Sedo since 2007).

See the full list after the jump.

Domain name Date Price Currency Translation .COMs videodating.com 2010-06-21 50,000 USD knowyouroptions.com 2010-06-22 50,000 USD uspo.com 2010-06-28 20,000 USD coa.com 2010-06-21 16,500 USD keku.com 2010-06-25 15,000 USD completecommerce.com 2010-06-28 14,000 USD detektei.com 2010-06-21 11,000 EUR saraiva.com 2010-06-28 10,000 USD pcnames.com 2010-06-21 10,000 USD realcopy.com 2010-06-25 9,500 USD newrock.com 2010-06-22 8,400 USD gaysoulmate.com 2010-06-24 8,000 USD xaas.com 2010-06-28 7,810 USD relian.com 2010-06-28 7,500 EUR koffers.com 2010-06-21 7,000 EUR fastapasta.com 2010-06-21 6,900 USD nanai.com 2010-06-28 5,600 USD santafevacationrentals.com 2010-06-28 5,280 USD beq.com 2010-06-24 5,101 USD hck.com 2010-06-22 5,001 USD shakeria.com 2010-06-21 5,000 EUR spotting.com 2010-06-22 5,000 EUR 1238.com 2010-06-25 5,000 USD urano.com 2010-06-28 4,700 EUR euq.com 2010-06-28 4,500 USD viajesbarato.com 2010-06-21 4,000 USD shopalike.com 2010-06-24 4,000 EUR turnkeywebsite.com 2010-06-24 4,000 USD leve.com 2010-06-24 3,999 USD worldwidedating.com 2010-06-24 3,995 USD thesisterhood.com 2010-06-28 3,750 USD zeker.com 2010-06-25 3,600 EUR coolrestaurants.com 2010-06-24 3,500 EUR wintercraft.com 2010-06-23 3,450 USD textking.com 2010-06-25 3,300 EUR italyshop.com 2010-06-23 3,293 USD gateaux.com 2010-06-25 3,100 EUR kstar.com 2010-06-24 3,000 EUR flightspace.com 2010-06-25 2,800 EUR vipcars.com 2010-06-22 2,750 USD elenza.com 2010-06-21 2,500 USD edaps.com 2010-06-23 2,500 USD kitendo.com 2010-06-22 2,500 EUR opportunit.com 2010-06-24 2,500 USD comoganardinero.com 2010-06-23 2,500 USD racingmodels.com 2010-06-28 2,500 USD afmag.com 2010-06-22 2,500 USD justadrop.com 2010-06-22 2,488 USD 50m.com 2010-06-28 2,450 USD ebooksite.com 2010-06-28 2,250 GBP arcado.com 2010-06-23 2,150 USD plattenspieler.com 2010-06-22 2,000 EUR Record Player in German 17w.com 2010-06-21 2,000 USD 123-business.com 2010-06-25 2,000 EUR eboca.com 2010-06-25 2,000 EUR 123sex.com 2010-06-24 2,000 USD sportoo.com 2010-06-25 1,888 USD blackorange.com 2010-06-25 1,850 USD italcapital.com 2010-06-22 1,800 USD amazonrainforestherbs.com 2010-06-23 1,800 USD wkgt.com 2010-06-24 1,770 USD gonutrition.com 2010-06-22 1,750 USD joulia.com 2010-06-22 1,600 USD contactlensescanada.com 2010-06-23 1,599 USD ciho.com 2010-06-28 1,550 USD eco-life.com 2010-06-24 1,549 USD look4help.com 2010-06-22 1,500 USD nachfolge.com 2010-06-22 1,500 EUR Succession in German fuelfix.com 2010-06-21 1,500 USD gizmobox.com 2010-06-23 1,500 USD cannabissearch.com 2010-06-21 1,500 USD rosaritobeachhotels.com 2010-06-22 1,500 USD trekkingblogs.com 2010-06-23 1,500 EUR mediabutler.com 2010-06-23 1,499 EUR lovelotto.com 2010-06-24 1,480 EUR woman4u.com 2010-06-24 1,450 EUR allsend.com 2010-06-25 1,450 USD amedu.com 2010-06-24 1,400 USD mentefactura.com 2010-06-28 1,350 USD sightseeingnyc.com 2010-06-22 1,320 USD shopsolution.com 2010-06-28 1,310 EUR jewelresort.com 2010-06-25 1,295 USD vancouvercriminallawyers.com 2010-06-22 1,285 USD wearefootball.com 2010-06-23 1,250 USD thecloudchannel.com 2010-06-23 1,222 EUR medicalsupplysuperstore.com 2010-06-23 1,200 USD infominer.com 2010-06-24 1,200 USD fototapete.com 2010-06-23 1,100 EUR Photo Wallpaper in German stromsparer.com 2010-06-28 1,100 EUR achy.com 2010-06-24 1,100 USD 6xy.com 2010-06-22 1,010 EUR hockeynet.com 2010-06-23 1,000 USD safetorrents.com 2010-06-24 1,000 USD lazytiger.com 2010-06-28 1,000 USD primarycareathome.com 2010-06-24 1,000 USD tebusco.com 2010-06-28 1,000 USD physiciannet.com 2010-06-24 1,000 EUR wealthsite.com 2010-06-22 1,000 USD keenu.com 2010-06-28 1,000 USD clonescripts.com 2010-06-28 1,000 EUR proteinmilkshake.com 2010-06-25 999 USD shardsofglass.com 2010-06-22 995 USD kutman.com 2010-06-28 995 USD peoplescience.com 2010-06-21 990 USD reifenboerse.com 2010-06-24 855 EUR Tire Market in German safeaid.com 2010-06-23 850 USD doctorq.com 2010-06-21 833 EUR warenwirtschaftssystem.com 2010-06-28 820 EUR Economical System in German alpinelabs.com 2010-06-22 801 USD transmoto.com 2010-06-23 800 EUR oneminutebusiness.com 2010-06-24 800 USD schulberatung.com 2010-06-22 800 USD School Counselling in German e-g-o.com 2010-06-28 800 EUR keytar.com 2010-06-24 800 USD eutrucks.com 2010-06-28 750 USD cyberhood.com 2010-06-22 750 USD 7106.com 2010-06-22 750 USD stormpreparation.com 2010-06-24 750 USD r1n.com 2010-06-25 750 EUR uk-trackdays.com 2010-06-25 750 USD wetdry.com 2010-06-21 725 USD sell-house.com 2010-06-22 700 USD holzvergaser.com 2010-06-28 700 EUR Wood Gas Powered in German roadcyclists.com 2010-06-23 700 USD dragonplay.com 2010-06-24 700 USD



CC TLDs vermietung.de 2010-06-23 23,000 EUR Rental in German gezocht.nl 2010-06-21 20,000 EUR Wanted in Dutch cafe.de 2010-06-22 15,000 EUR equip.me 2010-06-25 15,000 USD hfk.de 2010-06-24 12,000 EUR weights.co.uk 2010-06-23 6,610 GBP americanholidays.co.uk 2010-06-24 6,500 GBP seo.es 2010-06-25 6,000 EUR ginseng.asia 2010-06-22 5,400 EUR tech.tv 2010-06-21 5,000 USD name.tv 2010-06-21 4,888 USD wandmotive.de 2010-06-28 4,000 EUR Wall Designs in German oesterreich-urlaub.de 2010-06-25 3,570 EUR Austria Vacation in German my-shirt.de 2010-06-22 3,400 EUR aco.us 2010-06-25 3,350 USD casamentos.pt 2010-06-28 3,000 USD starseller.de 2010-06-28 3,000 EUR iolo.de 2010-06-28 2,756 USD kilfrost.cn 2010-06-25 2,500 EUR caducee.fr 2010-06-22 2,500 EUR leads.pro 2010-06-23 2,500 USD versandhandelssoftware.de 2010-06-23 2,500 EUR Mail Order Software in German immobilienmakler.tv 2010-06-23 2,500 EUR Real Estate Broker in German mappen24.de 2010-06-24 2,200 EUR Briefcases 24 in German secondreality.de 2010-06-28 2,000 EUR soja.eu 2010-06-28 1,950 EUR rwt.ch 2010-06-28 1,900 EUR garten-shop.de 2010-06-28 1,800 EUR Garden Shop in German l.ai 2010-06-28 1,800 USD betreuungsrecht.de 2010-06-28 1,800 EUR Custody Law in German office365.nl 2010-06-28 1,500 USD wireimage.co.uk 2010-06-22 1,500 GBP tupperwaren.de 2010-06-24 1,500 EUR Tupper Ware in German itec.ch 2010-06-22 1,500 EUR kräutershop.de 2010-06-28 1,500 EUR Herb Shop in German essig.eu 2010-06-21 1,499 EUR Vinegar in German privateunfallversicherung.de 2010-06-22 1,400 EUR Private Accident Insurance in German babycoach.de 2010-06-24 1,312 EUR rockband.se 2010-06-28 1,300 USD amdocs.co.uk 2010-06-25 1,299 GBP llc.de 2010-06-25 1,250 EUR initiative-mittelstand.de 2010-06-25 1,250 EUR Middle Sizes Business Initiative in German airconditioners.co.za 2010-06-25 1,250 USD casinos.co.in 2010-06-22 1,200 GBP discoverygroup.co.uk 2010-06-28 1,150 USD rotlicht-jobs.de 2010-06-24 1,100 EUR Red Light Jobs in German winportal.de 2010-06-24 1,099 EUR sc.tv 2010-06-24 1,052 USD xtb.fr 2010-06-22 1,000 EUR yourbody.tv 2010-06-22 1,000 EUR gesundheít.de 2010-06-24 1,000 EUR Health in German anleger.tv 2010-06-24 1,000 EUR Investor in German sellcarforcash.co.uk 2010-06-23 1,000 GBP vanity-rufnummer.de 2010-06-28 1,000 EUR vanity-rufnummern.de 2010-06-28 1,000 EUR advertisement.tv 2010-06-22 1,000 USD komm4buy.de 2010-06-23 1,000 EUR online-rabatt.de 2010-06-25 1,000 EUR Online Rebate in German kosmetika.eu 2010-06-23 1,000 EUR ve.dk 2010-06-22 1,000 USD umtsflatrates.de 2010-06-24 1,000 EUR ot.tv 2010-06-24 1,000 USD rewards.me 2010-06-25 950 USD mitternachtsruf.de 2010-06-24 900 EUR Midnight Call in German scylla.de 2010-06-22 880 EUR fotoversand.eu 2010-06-28 855 EUR Photo Shipping in German knd.at 2010-06-23 850 EUR futurezone.be 2010-06-24 800 USD carbon.lu 2010-06-21 800 EUR picopsu.de 2010-06-22 800 EUR pico-psu.de 2010-06-22 800 EUR moog.co.in 2010-06-24 800 USD aquapura.co.uk 2010-06-25 800 GBP sportivity.de 2010-06-28 780 EUR autobahnradio.de 2010-06-24 750 EUR Highway Radio in German heat.me 2010-06-22 750 GBP leaseoffice.nl 2010-06-25 750 EUR glühwein.ch 2010-06-22 725 EUR Mulled Wine in German thecube.it 2010-06-28 700 EUR pigments.eu 2010-06-25 700 EUR OTHER TLDs Portfolio Sale 2010-06-24 25,200 USD gwp.org 2010-06-23 9,888 USD medikamente.net 2010-06-22 8,430 EUR Medication in German textbooks.org 2010-06-21 6,100 USD universallifeinsurance.org 2010-06-25 5,200 USD privatestudentloan.net 2010-06-23 5,100 USD kobo.net 2010-06-22 5,000 USD privateloanconsolidation.net 2010-06-28 4,400 USD jee.org 2010-06-23 4,000 USD sales.biz 2010-06-22 4,000 USD compensationclaims.net 2010-06-21 4,000 GBP musclebuilding.net 2010-06-23 3,500 USD hotelfinder.net 2010-06-23 3,200 USD availability.net 2010-06-28 3,000 USD accidentclaim.net 2010-06-21 2,750 GBP compensationclaim.net 2010-06-21 2,750 GBP carehomes.net 2010-06-23 2,500 GBP rpo.net 2010-06-23 2,450 USD giftstore.net 2010-06-22 2,099 USD coffeeshops.net 2010-06-21 1,800 USD flightfinder.net 2010-06-28 1,800 USD agaricus.org 2010-06-28 1,700 USD condos.info 2010-06-21 1,600 EUR sparkonto.org 2010-06-23 1,590 EUR Savings Account in German lasvegasconventions.net 2010-06-22 1,550 USD ffm.info 2010-06-28 1,501 EUR nikon.org 2010-06-25 1,500 USD betnet.net 2010-06-28 1,470 USD poser.net 2010-06-24 1,382 USD tablet-pc.org 2010-06-23 1,333 EUR reizdarm.net 2010-06-24 1,250 EUR spoons.net 2010-06-21 1,250 USD luxushotels.org 2010-06-22 1,175 EUR hashtag.info 2010-06-25 1,150 USD eiweiss.org 2010-06-23 1,100 EUR Eggwhite in German umschuldung.info 2010-06-28 1,050 EUR Debt Conversion in German brawny.net 2010-06-28 1,000 USD itaxi.mobi 2010-06-21 1,000 USD gesund.mobi 2010-06-28 1,000 EUR Healthy in German doorlopendkrediet.net 2010-06-21 1,000 EUR whiplashclaims.net 2010-06-22 1,000 GBP immigrationlawyer.info 2010-06-23 1,000 USD onlineclinic.net 2010-06-28 1,000 USD magnesium.info 2010-06-28 999 EUR greatstuff.biz 2010-06-28 995 USD schals.net 2010-06-21 990 EUR immobilienkredite.net 2010-06-24 900 EUR Real Estate Credits in German civilization.org 2010-06-24 800 USD snackfood.net 2010-06-21 799 USD badcreditpaydayloans.net 2010-06-24 751 USD fearofflying.org 2010-06-28 750 USD datebase.net 2010-06-28 700 USD lawnservice.net 2010-06-23 700 USD nef.net 2010-06-28 700 USD

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This morning NameMedia has announced the launch of the Afternic Portfolio Manager, which is a web service API that can be used by large domain portfolio holders to manage their names listed on the Afternic Markeplace remotely in realtime.

TurnCommerce [ed. mostly known from their NameBee site], a leading domain development company, has been using the product to list and sell its domain names over the past month, and has seen a twenty percent increase in domain names sold since using it. “NameMedia’s new product provides us with a great resource to sell domain names,” said TurnCommerce Co-Founder, Andrew Reberry. “AfternicDLS has helped TurnCommerce tap into the small and medium business market while simplifying domain sales management.”

See the full press release after the jump.

NameMedia Launches New Afternic Portfolio Manager
Web Services Product Automates Inventory Management and Promotes Selling Domain Names on Industry’s Largest Distribution Network

WALTHAM, MASS—June 29, 2010 — NameMedia today announced the launch of Afternic Portfolio Manager a new, easy-to-use domain distribution and inventory management tool for large portfolio owners to sell their names through the industry’s largest domain marketplace at AfternicDLS. Afternic Portfolio Manager is available immediately at no cost.

“Afternic Portfolio Manager provides our customers the ability reconcile their inventory in a single request, while providing instantaneous add, edit, and remove domain functionality,” said David Hauser, NameMedia Senior Vice President. “Today’s launch means that large portfolio owners have a reliable, flexible and simple web service solution to effectively manage inventory in real-time while placing the domain names for sale at AfternicDLS,”

TurnCommerce, a leading domain development company, has been using the product to list and sell its domain names over the past month, and has seen a twenty percent increase in domain names sold since using it. “NameMedia’s new product provides us with a great resource to sell domain names,” said TurnCommerce Co-Founder, Andrew Reberry. “AfternicDLS has helped TurnCommerce tap into the small and medium business market while simplifying domain sales management.”

AfternicDLS is the leader in reaching retail buyers of premium domain names through its websites at Afternic.com, BuyDomains.com and a network of more than 40 distribution partners, including many of the world’s largest registrars. Through its global distribution network, Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) receives more than 35 million requests each month by consumers looking for a domain name, making it the most productive platform for connecting domain sellers with domain buyers.

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About NameMedia

NameMedia is a leader in the acquisition; development and trading of digital real estate through a network of highly targeted websites and a marketplace for premium domain names. The company’s website development focuses on creating compelling online communities in niche categories. The company’s marketplace allows owners of premium domain names to list their domain properties for sale, and for domain buyers to review the largest available inventory. Through its ownership of one of the largest domain portfolios in the world, its innovative website development platform, and its broad distribution, NameMedia now serves more than 50 million visitors to its network of websites and sells domains to customers in more than 100 countries.
Headquartered outside Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts, more information is available at www.namemedia.com.

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According to Kieren McCarthy ICANN’s general counsel read a statement at the start of the public forum at the current ICANN meeting in Brussel, stating that the Board had accepted the results of the independent review panel and thus would approve the .xxx TLD tomorrow. The board had delayed the decision until the 38th ICANN meeting in order to gather additional comments from the public.

The board would then enter the contract negotiations with application ICM Registry and then refer the contract to the Governmental Advisory Committee since they had raised concerns in the past.

This decision would ignore the lobbying of the adult industry against the new extension, however the registry might have some challenges selling domains under the new TLD.

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The Australian based company Trellian has just sent an email to its registered users announcing the launch of the “Trellian AdNetwork“, which allows the purchase of direct navigation domain traffic. The traffic originates from the domains parked on the Above.com Domain Parking Manager. According to the note the network reaches over 200 million unique visitors a month via over 1.2 million domains and redirects users to the domains to the advertisers in the network. The bid prices in the network are on a per unique visitor basis.

Advertisers will place a bid based on keywords or a list of categories and define their daily budget. The top bidder for the keyword receives the majority of the traffic, Bidders 2-5 will receive a percentage of the available traffic. Any bidder ranked sixth or lower will not receive any traffic. During the open beta only a small percentage of the available traffic will be made available to bid on.  Any of the traffic will only be sent to the advertisers if they pay a higher price than the domains earns from the other parking providers.

See the email after the jump.

We are pleased to announce the release of the Trellian AdNetwork, a direct navigation platform.
http://bid.trellian.com/

The Trellian AdNetwork reaches over 200 million unique visitors each month and can deliver targeted, direct navigation traffic at a fraction of the cost.

Instead of paying per click, Trellian drives targeted traffic directly to your website. As there are no ads to view or to click on, there is no competition from organic search results or other advertisers. This means more traffic at a much lower cost.

The Trellian AdNetwork has the same traffic that you can currently buy from most major search engines and you can set up both keyword and category based campaigns.

For more information or to test drive a campaign, please go to:
http://bid.trellian.com/