Tucows (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) announced today that it had passed 10,000,000 domains under management. The number includes names that are registered through ICANN accredited registrars using the company’s OpenHRS solution. Tucows uses the OpenSRS brand for its wholesale services.

Sex seems to be a hot topic in domain land. DNN was tipped about an Ebay auction in which a trademark for sex.sex is for sale. The owner of the trademark believes that his mark for sex.sex , filed in July 2008 with a claimed first use in commerce of March 2009, will provide a [...]

As if the whole saga of Sex.com being stolen and then given back to the original owner wasn’t a strange enough story, now Mike Mann, who is one of several reported owners of Sex.com, has agreed to donate his portion of the domain name to the animal rights activist group PETA. As Domain Name Wire [...]

Incubator Idealab sold the domain name Top10.com for $200,000 USD in cash and a 7% equity stake in the new Top10.com Media Ltd. company. Idealab founder Bill Gross will join the advisory board of the company. Top10.com has been purchased by the team behind Top 10 Broadband and Top 10 Mobile Phones, comparison sites targeting [...]

Telnic, the operator of the .TEL domain, announced today that the registry will launch IDN domains for .TEL in 16 languages on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010. Registrations will be served through accredited registrars on a first come, first served basis starting as of 3pm BST. The languages supported as of the initial launch are Chinese, [...]

It looks like this week was a good week for the domain market place Sedo, as they sold Files.com for $725,000 USD. Prize.com sold for $100,000 and OnlineCasino.se sold for $32,000 USD. See the full list of reported Sedo.com sales after the jump.

Domain name broker Derek Giordano informed DNN that he has brokered a major deal assisting in the sale of CreditScore.com.  The buyer CreditReport.com made the announcement in a press release today. The sale was reportedly in excess of $5 Million dollars (or bigger than Toys.com). The company has not provided any details on the actual [...]

DomainSponsor’s DOMAINfest brand is now also adding networking events to their busy schedule of events. Besides  DOMAINfest Global which was held in January in Santa Monica and DOMAINfest Europe in Prague in October, the company is now introducing two one-day networking events in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and New York City, NY. The one-day events will [...]

The Domain Madness 2 Live Auction which ended yesterday sold 21 of 76 domains for $209,692 USD, bringing the average sales price to $9,985.33. Leading the pack was the sale of CamRoulette.com, which apparently only has been registered last year. The domain changed owners in February of this year for an unknown sum and now [...]

When ICANN introduced the mandatory Registrar Data Escrow (RDE) for registrars in 2007, the program was a direct result of the problems experienced with the registrar RegisterFly. ICANN requires all registrars to deposit a copy of their whois information with an approved RDE provider in order to protect registrants from the loss of their domain. [...]