Xinhua News Agency has withdrawn its application with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the new gTLD 广东 .
The english equivalent for the IDN string is Guangdong. The application had a prioritization number of 1,772 .The company has one other new gTLD application with ICANN for the IDN of 新闻 ,which has a prioritization number of 29 .The english equivalent of 新闻 is “News” .
According to IPProTheInternet.com,the two-letter ,premium domain name IG.com was sold to a UK based financial services company .
The seller was one of the larest Brazilian search portals .
The domain name is now redirecting to a website ,saying that : “IG.COM is now the home of IG – World Leaders in Financial Spread Betting and CFD Trading.”
The price paid for IG.com is said to be the second highest ever paid or a two-letter dot-com domain name and it’s most likely below the $8,5 million reportedly paid by Facebook for FB.com domain .
Sedo,the world’s leading domain marketplace,announced that it has partnered with Afilias,the company behind .INFO domain extension,to auction pnever-before-released premium .INFO domains.
The auction will end on June 4,2013 and features more than 100 premium .INFO domain names,including strong keywords in German,English and French.All the domain names included in the auction have a reserve price that starts at $99 .
Among the domain names available are :
UKEvents.info
DirectMarketing.info
Bier.info
Wein.info
CostaBlanca.info
Malaga.info
Futbol.info
Societe.info
Musique.info
For more details check out Sedo.com
