.WIEN – Over 4,500 Domain Name Registrations On Day One of General Availability
The new gTLD .Wien entered general availability yesteray, July 15,2014. .Wien had a total of over 4,600 registrations on day one of general availability.
Wien is Austria’s capital and also the country’s largest city.
At the time of writing this article, there are 5,306 .Wien registrations,according to ntldstats.com.This number also include the Sunrise domain name registrations.
Even though it’s a very good start for .Wien, the new gTLD can’t compare to .Berlin that had over 31,000 domain registrations on day one of general availability.
Zhaunxue.com Wins Weekly Sales List at $190,098
Zhaunxue.com,sold for $190,098,topped Domain Name Journal sales list of reported domain names for the week,ending July 3,2014.
Sedo had a great week in the sales chart,taking 11 of the top 20 positions .Correspondingly.NameJet took 4 of the top 20 positions .
.COM dominated once again the list,with 10 of the top 20 positions.
Here are the top 20 positions for the two weeks ending July 3,2014 :
1. Zhaunxue.com $190,098
2. Satoshi.com $75,000
3. CIN.com $55,000
4. MaiMai.cn $50,000
5. Autoankauf.de $48,600
6. XCW.com $30,100
7. MobileLoans.com $30,099
8. GPV.com $30,000
9. SharpMind.com $25,000
10. Movie.info $24,626
11. TT.cc $20,250
12. Casinos.co $17,550
13. English.club $17,500
14. Circus.ch $17,496
15. PluralSight.in $16,000
16. Gainer.com $15,600
17. Sanko.com $15,400
18. Sökmotoroptimering.se $14,892
19. Reimport.de $14,175
20. LocalLife.com $13,988
See here the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales .
Logics.com Sells for $50,000
Sedo, the world’s leading domain name marketplace, announced the sale of Logics.com domain for $50,000.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 1996.The buyer owned the domain name since at least 2001 At the time of writing this article, the domain name displays links to a cloud CRM solution.
According to whois records, the new owner is intellirose from Chicago and the buyer is Advanced Logics Inc. from Florida.
Congratulations to both the seller and the buyer.
ICANN: Request for Proposal for Global Consumer Survey
ICANN is seeking one or more providers to conduct a global survey assessing aspects of consumer trust and perceived consumer choice and the Internet domain name system ( DNS ). The selected provider(s) will design and execute an initial survey to create a meaningful baseline of data on consumer attitudes and will perform a follow-on survey one year later, to generate a set of comparison data. ICANN is seeking qualified providers to manage this set of complex survey activities in a timely and efficient manner.
The survey is intended to contribute to one of the reviews mandated by ICANN ‘s Affirmation of Commitments (“Affirmation”). The Affirmation outlines ICANN ‘s responsibilities to the global community of Internet users, who are all served by the DNS . The Affirmation focuses on three primary areas of accountability: (a) ensuring accountability, transparency and the interests of global Internet users; (b) preserving security, stability and resiliency of the DNS ; and (c) promoting competition, consumer trust and consumer choice. Each of the focus areas includes regular reviews by the community to gauge ICANN ‘s performance. The survey will serve as one source of data to inform the analysis of how the New gTLD Program has promoted competition, consumer trust and consumer choice.
The consumer survey will capture some of the metrics proposed by ICANN ‘s community members from the Generic Names Supporting Organization ( GNSO ) and the At-Large Advisory Committee ( ALAC ) to evaluate the impact of the New gTLD Program on competition, consumer trust and consumer choice. A review team, to be formed, will include the survey results as it examines other measures, such as the geographic spread of new gTLD registrations, the number of internationalized domain names ( IDNs or domains in scripts that include characters outside the letters a-z, numbers 0-9 and a hyphen) available, and the relative incidence of compliance complaints, among many others.
As the DNS is relevant to all Internet users worldwide, the survey must be globally representative of all geographic regions, and thus the selected provider(s) must be able to conduct its work across multiple countries and languages. The proposed methodology must also be replicable one year after the initial survey is conducted to measure changes in attitudes as new gTLDs become more prominent in the domain name space.
For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please click here [ZIP, 1.08 MB].
Proposals should be submitted to
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by 23:59 UTC ON 6 August 2014.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-07-16-en
ICANN: IANA Functions Stewardship Transition Updates
On 14 March 2014, the NTIA announced its intention to transition its stewardship role of IANA functions, and called upon ICANN to launch and facilitate a process with the community to derive a proposal to transition stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community, meeting the criteria set out by the NTIA .
Following community dialogue, the process for developing a proposal for this transition was posted on 6 June 2014. As a part of this process, a Coordination Group will be responsible for preparing a transitional proposal respective of the differing needs of the various affected parties of the IANA functions.
See here for a full list of the Coordination Group Representatives.
The first face-to-face meeting of the Coordination Group will take place in London from 08:00-17:00 UTC on 17-18 July at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel.
UPDATE: The agenda for the 2-day Coordination Group Meeting can be found here [PDF, 37 KB].
The global multistakeholder community will be able to follow the Coordination Group’s first meeting through the Virtual Meeting Room and through audio translations into these languages:
In addition, the community is encouraged to join the conversation through use of the online discussion forum or ICANN ‘s dedicated IANA Transition mailing list to discuss the transition process.
For more information about the Coordination Group and the IANA Function’s Stewardship Transition, please visit the NTIA IANA Functions’ Stewardship Transition microsite.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-16-en
