So how did Bido.com do with their one auction a day concept after their June 18th launch? The sales data follows after the break.

Selected Sedo domain sales of the week up to June 30th are featured after the break.

In an official statement posted on Slashdot.org Godaddy.com attorneys have stated that they found nothing improper with the bidding activities of Godaddy VP Adam Dicker at the companies TDNAM.com expiring domain name marketplace.  The official statement goes on to explain that in the future all Godaddy employees will be prohibited from participating in any future [...]

According to website Zone-H, a group of Turkish hackers hijacked ICANN and IANA domain names on Thursday morning. All of the domain names are registered at Register.com. The group took over control of the domain names, including icann.com, icann.net, iana.com and iana-servers.com. The DNS records were changed and redirected to the hackers site with the [...]

Frank and I both forgot Domain Name News turned 1 year old on June 12th . It’s been a busy June and time flies.  It seems like 1 year of real time is like a decade on the internet. I think that we’ve both been so busy in the domain name business for so long [...]

Associated Cities has opened up nominations for their Geo Awards.  Nominations are open to the public  until July 1st and final voting will be conducted on July 2nd with the final voting to close on July 8th. Awards will be presented at the 2008 GeoDomain Expo in Chicago. To nominate someone Click here

In a recently released policy brief, ICANN addresses domain name monetization (PDF) as if it were a problem to be addressed. The policy brief begins by discussing and explaining domain monetization and Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising in layman terms. The paper further goes on to discuss domain tasting and points out [...]

£20 web domain name to go for £1m Dot TK - Free domain names with no strings attached Stuff: Yahoo’s board doing a heck of a job, Yahoo says Google, @ 10 years, is looking for more Microsoft’s war against Google Ticketmaster looks to master ticket resale domain (***Not domain name)

The GoDaddy Group Inc., which includes GoDaddy.com, Wild West Domains (its resale brand) and Blue Razor (its bulk domain brand) has reached a new milestone, registering its 30 millionth domain, RulesOfSaving.com. GoDaddy is either registering, renewing or transferring about one domain every second of every day, making it the most popular domain registrar around. Although GoDaddy [...]

Selected Sedo sales of the week till June 23rd after the jump.