An article reportedly in the print version of The Independent today claims that the domain name Cruises.co.uk was purchased by the UK travel company Cruise.co.uk for £560,000 or roughly $1.1 million US.
Just for fun : Here’s a view of how some in the “valley” see the deal.
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In an article noted on Telecom.NL (subscription required) , Red.es has initiated a program to give away domains to anyone under the age of 30 in an effort to boost Spanish internet usage.
 
Under 30s in Spain can register a domain name for free, says the public institution responsible for promoting the internet. . [...]

According to a post found on Jothan Frake’s blog and  Dutch Telecom (subscription required), the ccTLD .me will now be run by a join operation between Afilias, Godaddy and Montenegro’s MeNet.
The .me domain name is the country-code for Montenegro, but has obvious commercial appeal. The country had issued a public invitation to bid, which according [...]

Please welcome North Korea (aka Korea, Democratic People’s Republic) (.KP), Montenegro (.ME), and Serbia (.RS) to the root zone.Delegation was approved at the recent Special ICANN Board of Director meeting on September 11.
My compliments to Kim Davies and David Conrad at IANA on a smooth process from board approval to root addition. It [...]

Apparently the .PL registry has introduced a traffic tasting service allowing registrants to register a name for up to five days in order to see if there is any traffic on it. The registry writes:
Thanks to New Domain Name Tasting (DNT) service you can check profits and possibilities which an own domain gives as well [...]

According to a DENIC press release, they processed the 11,111,111 .DE domain registration today.
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