ICANN has named David Olive Vice President of Policy Development Support. Olive ends his 20 year tenure at Fujitsu where he most recently was General Manager and Chief Corporate Representative in the Washington office and will join ICANN on February 15th, 2010. He has also served as a member of the Commercial Board of Directors [...]

We will be were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFEST Global event in Santa Monica, California for Moniker’s Low & No Reserve Live Domain Auction.  Unsold names will be sold in the extended online auction from 01/28 - 02/04 at 12:15 PM PT. As always we do not guarantee the [...]

As our man on the ground reports the two PitchFEST 2 winners were Chad Folkening with his Rapid Domain Builder as voted by the judges David Liu (Jefferies & Company Inc.), Douglas McPherson (Idealab), Richard Morganstern (Tech Coast Angels) and Root Orange won the people’s choice award. The other two presenters were DevRich (automated domain [...]

MissDomain is organizing a charity auction for the earthquake victims in Haiti based on the initiative and idea of Internetsweden. The auction will include .NU (country of Niue) domains, which are sold worldwide. According to the announcement the ownership of the domains will be free, since the registry Nunames is also sponsoring the contest. Submissions [...]

With the recent news about Geosign Spin-Off Moxy Media, we also came across news about Restaurantica, a restaurant review website that was originally started in 2003 by Ryan May and sold to eMedia, which is owned by Geosign’s founder Tim Nye. Ryan May has sinced moved on and is working on his own projects like [...]

We will be blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFEST Global event in Santa Monica, California for Moniker’s Low & No Reserve Live Domain Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Our apologies for starting the report on this late, but I actually managed to forget that [...]

Sedo has just reported their domain sales for this week. The chart is lead by the sale of website.de for 101,150 Euro, which is about $143.000 USD. The top .COM sale was BookKeepers.com for $34,000, followed by Juegos-Gratis.com, meaning Free Games in Spanish, for 18,500 Euros ($26,000 USD) and ddm.com for $12,501. Other notable sales [...]

According to an article in the Canadian Globe & Mail, the Parent Company of Ashley Madison and other adult(ery) oriented websites, Avid Media Life, is planning to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) this year, wanting to raise $60 million CAD. The company operates websites such as CougarLife.com , EstablishedMen.com and AshleyMadison.com and [...]

The continuation of yesterday’s interrupted Live Auction at the Targeted TRAFFIC conference can be found in the original post.

The ICANN board voted in a special meeting held today to keep the 37th ICANN meeting in Nairobi, Kenya from March 7-12, 2010. After some security concerns the board had considered canceling the meeting, but will now work together with the local governments in order to provide for the security of the attendees. An editorial [...]