Top 20 Most Expensive .COM Domain Names in The First Half of 2014

MI.com was the highest reported .COM domain name sale in the first half of 2014. The domain name changed hands for a whopping $3,6 million.

 

Most of the big-value .COM domain name sales in the first half of 2014 were brokered by Sedo.The top 20 .COM domain name sales add up to a total of over $21 million in the first half of 2014.

Here are the highest reported .COM domain name sales in the first half of 2014.

1. MI.com     $3,600,000   
2. Whisky.com     $3,100,000      
3. Youxi.com      $2,430,000   
4. 37.com      $1,960,800   
5. MM.com     $1,200,000   
6. 100.com     $950,000   
7. Wan.com     $800,000   
8. Teamwork.com     $675,000      
9.DataCenter.com     $500,000   
10. Symphony.com     $375,000
11. True.com     $350,000   
12. Malls.com     $320,000   
13. LK.com     $287,500   
14. Accommodation.com     $286,000   
15.tie     FlashCards.com     $250,000   
16.tie     BitcoinWallet.com     $250,000     
17. Mob.com     $220,000   
18. DL.com     $210,689   
19. Gab.com     $200,002   
20. YouPay.com     $200,000   

Microsoft Files UDRP Complaint For 26 Office-Related Domain Names

Microsoft has filed a UDRP complaint with the National Arbitration Forum, seeking control of 26 Office-related domain names.

 

The 26 disputed domain names are:

microsoftoffice365la.com
microsoftoffice365miami.com
microsoftoffice365nyc.com
microsoftoffice365phoenix.com
microsoftoffice365phx.com
microsoftoffice365sandiego.com
office365atlanta.com
office365boston.com
office365chicago.com
office365consultant.com
office365dallas.com
office365denver.com
office365forbusiness.com
office365houston.com
office365kc.com
office365la.com
office365lasvegas.com
office365losangeles.com
office365newyork.com
office365phoenix.com
office365phx.com
office365sandiego.net
office365scottsdale.com
office365seattle.com
office365sf.com
office365techs.com

According to whois records, the disputed domain names were registered in 2011,2012 and 2013.

The National Arbitration Forum will examine if the disputed domain names are confusingly similar to Microsoft’s trademark,if the current owner has rights over it and if the domains are being used in bad faith .The disputed domain names will be passed over to Microsoft if it falls under all three of these stipulations.

The case is still pending compliance checks with the National Arbitration Forum
  

GAC Advice on New gTLDs Issued During ICANN 50 London

The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has issued further advice to the ICANN Board in the GAC London Communiqué regarding New gTLD applications. The New gTLD advice in the London Communiqué related to Section 3.1 of the Applicant Guidebook is further to the contents of the Beijing, Durban, Buenos Aires, and Singapore Communiqués.

 

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-14jul14-en

Punto 2012 Launches .BAR and .REST New gTLDs

According to a press release sent your today, Punto 2012 has launched two new gTLDs : .BAR, a domain name designed for nightclubs and bars and .REST, the abbreviation for Restaurant.

 

You can read the press release after the jump:

“Restaurants and bars all over the world can now register new domain names ending with .REST (dot-rest) and .BAR (dot-bar) in a new global online neighborhood designed specifically for restaurants and bars. The simple and defined domain names categorize restaurants and bars so that diners, food-lovers and nightclub-goers can easily find them online.

.BAR, a domain designed for bars and nightclubs, and .REST, the abbreviation for “restaurant” in almost 30 languages and in more than 50 countries, are launching simultaneously in order to create a space on the Internet specifically for the food and beverage industry.

The domains, created by Mexico-based Punto 2012, were engineered by restaurant technology professionals working to make restaurants and bars more relevant, visible and easier to find online. The domains are part of a larger Internet trend, wherein domain endings categorize industries, making Internet addresses simpler and more accessible for customers. The .REST and .BAR domains are more precise, making Internet addresses more memorable offline, so that restaurants are easier to identify and recognize online.

“.REST and .BAR will connect the food and beverage industry with customers online,” said Aaron Grego, CEO of Punto 2012. “This is a perfect opportunity for businesses to grab a simple and easy-to-use domain name that describes their bar or restaurant with a descriptive name. Our industry needs to stand out online and be found — with .REST and .BAR they can be.”

.REST and .BAR domain names have already been reserved during trademark and early registrations by restaurants and bars from all over the world, including: United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, and Russia, and also by major international food and beverage brands.

.REST and .BAR domain names can now be registered with registrars such as GoDaddy, Name.com and 101domain. For more information visit, www.register.rest and www.register.bar.”

.EU Continues Solid Growth With Registrations Increasing 2.2% To 3.8m In Q1

The total number of .eu registrations grew by 2.2 percent in Q1 2014 to 3.79 million, according to the latest progress report released last week by the .eu registry EURid.

“This relatively high growth rate is thanks, in part, to our high renewal rate of above 80% and the higher than expected level of new registrations,” commented EURid General Manager Marc Van Wesemael.

“The latter is especially comforting as it shows that the popularity of.eu is further growing in a crowded market place, even as the many new gTLDs jostle for position.”

The report also found .eu registrations increased in 27 of the 28 EU member states with Croatia and Portugal both seeing growth of more than 10 percent.

According to the report, the number of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) in the .eu portfolio at the end of Q1 2014 was 52 683, or 1.4 percent of all registrations. The number of IDNs as a percentage of new registrations is at the same level as that of other registries. As well, the number of DNSSEC-signed names was 261 304 or 6.9 percent of all registrations.

The .eu TLD is the seventh largest ccTLD and eleventh largest TLD overall according to the Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief for the last quarter of 2013. The largest TLD is .com with 113.7 million registrations, followed by .tk (Tokelau) with 24.5 million, then .de (Germany – 15.7m), .net (15.1m), .uk (United Kingdom – 10.5m), .org (10.4m), .cn (China – 10.6m), .info (5.7m), .nl (Netherlands – 5.4m), .ru (Russia – 4.9m) and then .eu.

In addition to the growth, EURid also announced during the second quarter, on 12 April to be precise, the European Commission officially re-confirmed EURid as the registry manager for the .eu top-level domain for the next five years.

The full report is available for download at link.eurid.eu/reports.