According to this press release visitors to the Network Solutions website will now also be able to purchase premium names from the NameMedia network of domains, including AfternicDLS.

Today the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles begins. With Vincent Cerf stepping down as ICANN chairman, will this also be the continuation of change? While many additional members of the domain industry are attending this year’s conference, it still looks like ICANN would like to keep many things under cover as Karl Auerbach notices on [...]

SEATTLE (Business Wire EON) October 25, 2007 — Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) (NASDAQ:MCHXP), a local advertising company and leading publisher of local content, today announced that it has named Nicolas J. Hanauer vice chairman of its Board of Directors. A pioneer in the online industry, Hanauer was the founder and chairman of aQuantive (formerly Avenue A [...]

Godaddy.com has released the final list of domain names to be auctioned off in their new Signature Domain Auctions beginning November 6th. The list of 30 domains was compiled from submissions from the Godaddy website. Godaddy put up a page about the Signature Domain Auctions earlier this year and have been vetting submissions and [...]

According to sources, Verisign, the operator of the generic TLDs .COM & .NET registry, is considering selling access to selected root dns server lookup data to registrars. The root servers are what make domain names work on the Internet, meaning that many domain queries hit these servers on their way to a site or an [...]

If you are a DomainSponsor.com publisher partner, you might know Joe Higgins (far right of pic). He’s an account rep for the domain monetization company. Joe also is the drummer for a band, The Likes of You. The Los Angeles-based band made it through the Fox reality show “The Next Great American Band”. [...]

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the renewal of Neustar’s contract to manage the .US registry. The .US domain is the country code top-level domain for the United States (usTLD), but has always played second-fiddle to the more popular .com extension. The contract involves a three-year agreement with two one-year [...]

The Moniker.com TRAFFIC silent domain auction ended earlier today with 437 domains priced at over $2m sold. A list of all domains and prices published on the next page. The silent auction follows the live domain auction event held last week where $7.8 million dollars of domains were sold. The top [...]

A group of internet domain name investors led by Eric Rice apparently has banded together to make the winning bid to acquire the domain name Cowboys.com . The domain name was placed back up for auction in the Moniker.com silent auction after the representatives from the Dallas Cowboys football team reportedly backed out of [...]

Snapnames, recently acquired by Oversee.net, will become a live domain auction player. As per today’s press release, they will debut SnapNames Live, a live auction system for premium domains, at DOMAINfest Global’s Hollywood, California event in January 2008. The Domainfest event is organized by Domainsponsor, which also is owned by Oversee.net.