.LONDON – Over 35,500 Domain Name Registrations on Day One of General Availability
.London, one of the most anticipated new gTLD extensions, entered General Availability yesterday .Over 35,500 .London domain names have been registered during the first 24 hours of General Availability.
More precisely, .London wound up with 35,557 domain names registered during the first 24 hours of General Availability.
According to ntldstats.com, .London is the most successful new gTLD launch to date.The numbers also include registrations from Sunrise and Landrush period.
At the time of writing this article, .London ranks as the 12th new gTLD . The first spot is taken by .XYZ with 486,576 domain name registrations, while the second spot is taken by .Berlin with 138,638 domain name registrations.
Check out EuroDNS here to register your .London domain name.
August 2014 Highest Reported .COM Domain Name Sales
Check.com was the highest reported .COM domain name sales in August,2014.The domain name changed hands for a whopping $1 million.
Here are the top 20 .COM domain name sales reported in August 2014:
1. Check.com $1,000,000
2.tie Aura.com $175,000
3. Maca.com $150,000
4. Munch.com $140,000
5. Vapers.com $132,470
6. Peepers.com $105,000
7.tie SafetyTraining.com $80,000
8.tie TruckDrivingJobs.com $80,000
9. RideScout.com $79,200
10. MITV.com $75,000
11. BrandNames.com $65,000
12. LEA.com $60,100
13. Bushel.com $60,000
14. FUTR.com $58,800
15.tie GoodAdvice.com $58,000
16.tie StorageBoxes.com $58,000
17. Mewe.com $55,800
18. Marruecos.com $55,000
19. Asou.com $52,500
20. DirtyPanties.com $50,000
Heritage Auctions Offers Private Domain Name Brokerage Services
Heritage Auctions announced recently that it is now offering private domain name brokerage services. The company announced that it has successfully sold over $4 million in domains in the first year .
Heritage Auctions said that their plan is to hold live auctions ,just like before.Howevere, the company said that they are now offering private brokerage services or select domains.
You can read Heritage Auctions’ announcement after the jump :
“Our Domain Name and IP division launched just over a year ago. Heritage has successfully sold over $4,000,000 of domain names in the first year, and we feel as if we’re just getting started.
Our plans, going forward, are to hold live auctions, as usual. However, we are now offering private brokerage services for select domain names. Domain sellers receive the benefits of working with Heritage Auctions (our reputation, our marketing reach, our media contacts) but you won’t have to wait until we hold a live auction for us to market your assets.
Heritage Auctions is always seeking:
one and two word .com domains (runningshoes.com, cheapflights.com, jeans.com)
generic domain names (path.com, blue.com, amazon.com)
short acronyms (HA.com, AIE.com, KIO.com)
and we are always seeking domain names with traffic and/or revenue.”
ICANN Extends Call for Candidates: Seeking Advisors to the ICANN Accountability & Governance Coordination Group
In light of the 6 – 27 September public comment period on the Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance Process, the Public Experts Group has decided to extend its Call for Candidates.
The original due date of 10 September is now 30 September at 23:59 UTC, so as to align with the close of the public comment period. With the exception of date, all other elements of the Call for Candidates remain the same. For more information on how to submit a nomination, please see here.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-09-09-en
ICANN: Cross Community Group Informational Call
As previously announced, ICANN will host a call for the Cross Community Group of the Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance Process on Monday, 15 September from 14:00 – 16:00 UTC. In light of the recently announced 21-day public comment period on the process, the Cross Community Group call will be informational only. No chartering or Coordination Group selection will occur during the informational session. Theresa Swinehart will facilitate the community discussion.
Webinar Details:
Date: Monday, 15 September 2014
Time: 14:00 – 16:00 UTC (time zone conversions can be found here)
Adobe Connect: https://icann.adobeconnect.com/accountability
Conference ID: 2497545 – a list of country dial-in numbers can be found here.1
The call will be recorded and transcribed.
The Cross Community Group is open to all interested individuals, and there is no deadline to register. To join the Cross Community Group, simply submit your name and affiliation2 to
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All members of the Cross Community Group are listed here.
To access the group’s publicly archived mailing list, please click here.
For the most up-to-date information regarding the Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance Process, please visit Community Wiki.
1 For all dial-out service requests please contact
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by 12:00 UTC, 15 September 2014.
2 To enable transparency, stakeholders are asked to identify which SO / AC / SG they affiliate with. If none, they may select “other.” Stakeholders identifying with “other” may either not identify with any particular SO / AC / SG , or are new to the ICANN structure and are still familiarizing themselves.
This ICANN announcement was sourced with permission from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-4-2014-09-09-en
