City.com Domain Name Now Available for Sale

Igloo.com announced that the domain name City.com has been listed for sale.According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 1996.

You can read the press release after the jump :

“Igloo.com, a leading broker of ultra premium domain names and websites, announced today that City.com has been listed exclusively for sale with their firm. Highly marketable and easy to remember, City.com offers a unique branding opportunity for a new or established company to capitalize on a universally recognized word included in nearly 200 Million Google searches each month.

The most important decision a business owner can make when establishing an online presence is choosing the right domain name. Domain names are used to establish a unique identity on the Internet and businesses should take careful consideration when making their choice. A name like City.com provides instant credibility to an existing company looking to shorten their brand, or to a new company leveraging the dynamic nature of this powerful domain name.

Given proper execution and utilization of the asset’s full potential, the new owner of City.com is perfectly positioned to become the true leader in any given industry. Good branding will make your domain name memorable, but a memorable domain name will make your brand unforgettable.

“It’s not common for a domain of this caliber to become available, especially one that has never before been utilized in any major initiative, “ said Tessa Holcomb, CEO of Igloo.com. “City.com not only offers the new owner the ability to start with a clean slate ready for maximum development, but provides built-in asset protection on the buyer’s upfront investment as names like City.com only appreciate in value over time.”

For additional information or offer guidelines on City.com, please contact Holly Griesel directly at +1 508 689 9569, ext. 803 or
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I* Post-NETmundial Meeting Statement

Leaders of the organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure (loosely referred to as “I* leaders”) met on 25 April in São Paulo, Brazil following the NETmundial meeting. During the 1-day I* leaders meeting, the group considered a range of issues where dialogue among Internet technical organizations is useful.

In particular, the group highlighted that the NETmundial meeting has energized the multistakeholder discussions and model in a positive fashion. The leaders highlighted the importance of open, collaborative, bottom-up processes across meetings and organisations dealing with the Internet.

During the meeting, the group reflected on a number of other topics as well:

Transition of NTIA ‘s Stewardship of the IANA Functions (www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/iana/transition) and review of ICANN accountability processes;
The announcement made by ICANN CEO of the launch of a process to review and improve ICANN ‘s own oversight/accountability mechanism and how it is complementary to the IANA function’s stewardship evolution process.
Upcoming Internet Governance meetings including the Internet Governance Forum (www.intgovforum.org) and the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (www.internetsociety.org/plenipotbackground)
Coordination of experiences, plans and resources to further deploy DNSSEC via the ccTLD community
Identification of issues and players to further enable adoption of Internationalised Domain Names ( IDNs ) toward accelerating their adoption in communities that don’t use the Latin Character sets

The group bade farewell to Raúl Echeberría, CEO of LACNIC and Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer of the Internet Society.

Participating Leaders

Adiel A. Akplogan, CEO African Network Information Center (AFRINIC)
Barrack Otieno, Manager, The African Top Level Domains Organization ( AFTLD )
Paul Wilson, Director General Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre ( APNIC )
Don Hollander, General Manager Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association ( APTLD )
John Curran,CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers ( ARIN )
Peter Van Roste, General Manager, Council for European National Top Level Domain Registries ( CENTR )
Russ Housley, Chair Internet Architecture Board ( IAB )
Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN )
Jari Arkko, Chair Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF )
Kathy Brown, President and CEO Internet Society ( ISOC )
Raúl Echeberría, CEO Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry ( LACNIC )
Carolina Aguerre, General Manager, Latin American and Caribbean TLD Association ( LACTLD )
Axel Pawlik, Managing Director Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre ( RIPE NCC)
Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C )

This statement was sourced from the ICANN website at:
www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-13may14-en.htm

ICANN/DNA: Infographics Explaining the Domain Name Industry Available

The Domain Name Industry is a growing network that is immense in scope, made up of organizations, businesses and individuals involved in the business of domain names. In an effort to explain the subject, ICANN has published infographics to illustrate various aspects of the system that plays such a crucial role in the global Internet.

The topics of these infographics include the following:

Ecosystem – The overall environment of the industry
Value Chain – An overview of the layers that make up the Domain Name Industry
Responsibilities – The responsibilities of each party from ICANN all the way to domain buyers

These infographics were originally produced in 2013 in conjunction with the Domain Name Association and the versions published by ICANN have been made current. The infographics are subject to the rules of the 2013 Creative Commons Attribution Alike 3.0.

This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-13may14-en