SnapNames Announces Summer Premium Auction

SnapNames and Moniker, announced that their Summer Premium Auction. The online auction starts July 24,2014 at 3:15 pm ET and features hand selected domain names across many popular online verticals including Finance,Sports, Travel and Technology.

 

The inventory will features domain names from low and no reserve to ultra premium reserve ranges.

In order to participate you have to set-up a new SnapNames account . If you want to speak to a domain name sales specialist regardin domain names for sale contact SnapNames by email or phone :

        Email: auction[@]Moniker.com
        Phone: Toll free in the U.S. and Canada 866-690-6279
        Phone: Outside the U.S. and Canada 503-241-8547

Here are the submission criteria :

        One or two generic word domains or 1-4 character domains.
        Domains and websites in popular e-commerce and search-engine categories (such as finance, travel, debt relief, jobs or shopping) are preferred.
        Domains that include assets such as a web site, trademarks, copyrights, etc should be noted in the submission form.
        Domain traffic and revenue data should be included whenever possible.

March 2014 Highest Reported ccTLD Sales

The domain name Like.it was the highest selling ccTLD of March,2014. Like.it changed hand for $75,900 through Nidoma.

 

Here are the biggest ccTLD sales in March,2014

1. Like.it      $75,900    
2. Umbrella.co.uk      $29,050
3. Homify.fr      $27,800    
4. FreeSpins.de      $27,600    
5. Gaia.tv     $22,275    
6. Green.it      $22,701
7. Consulting.de      $21,545
8. BestOnlineCasino.co.uk      $21,497    
9. E-B.de      $19,460    
10. Shout.co     $19,000
11. FitnessStudios.de      $18,630
12. Affinita.it     $16,560
13. RouteRadar.nl      $13,900
14. How.co     $13,890
15. FitnessGuru.de      $13,800    
16. MoneyHub.co.uk      $12,450    
17. Bodybuilding-nahrung.de      $11,730
18.tie     Scarpeonline.it      $11,040    
18.tie     T-Shirt.it     $11,040    
20.     Fame.fr      $10,350

Coordination Center for TLD RU/.РФ : .РФ Domain Name is One of Largest Internationalized Domains in Europe

The Council of European National TLD Registries (CENTR) has recently published a report covering basic domain name statistics with a focus on European ccTLDs.

 

You can read the announcement after the jump :

” The Council of European National TLD Registries (CENTR) has published a regular report covering basic domain name statistics with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code Top Level Domains). It includes statistics for the period from March 13, 2013 to February 14, 2014.

The largest ccTLD (22.2% of the total) is Tokelau (.TK), three tropical coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean governed by New Zealand. “It is important to note that .TK offers mostly free domains on a global level and gets its revenue based on a fundamentally different business model than traditional ccTLDs,” the report reads.

The runner-up is Germany’s .DE (15.7%), while China’s .CN grew the most, by 16.5%, from November 2013 to February 2014. Russia’s .RU country code domain ranks sixth in the world with 4.9% of registrations, and fourth in Europe, after .DE (Germany), .UK (Britain) and .NL (the Netherlands). At the same time .РФ is the largest of the domain names using non-Latin characters, known as internationalized domain names or IDNs. It has 851,535 registrations, which is over 10 times more than the Swedish .SE domain (77,598 registrations).

A few more interesting facts: .BY (Belarus) achieved the highest quarterly growth in Europe, at 5.7% from November 2013 to February 2014. Liechtenstein, a country with only 37,000 people, retained the top position, with 173 ccTLDs per 100 people. The figures for Germany and Britain are 19 and 17 ccTLDs, respectively.”

Check out EuroDNS here to register your .RU domain name .

    

The Internet in Transition: The State of the Transition to IPv6 in Today’s Internet and Measures to Support the Continued Use of IPv4

This report considers the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 alongside the use of network technologies to prolong IPv4 use in the face of depletion of further IPv4 protocol addresses, but it does not aim to address all issues surrounding the transition to IPv6 or to detail the economic incentives faced by various Internet actors. It first provides a status update of address management issues and the run-out of IPv4.

It then describes the advantages and limitations of increased use of network address translation as one response to sustain the use of IPv4 in the face of IPv4 address exhaustion. It provides an overview of the IPv6 protocol; the advantages of IPv6 deployment as a response to IPv4 address exhaustion and the IPv6 transition plan compared to actual deployment to date. Finally, the report examines the choices facing individual actors, their potential consequences, and the policy implications on openness and innovation for the future of the Internet.

This OECD paper is available to download from:
www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/the-internet-in-transition-the-state-of-the-transition-to-ipv6-in-today-s-internet-and-measures-to-support-the-continued-use-of-ipv4_5jz5sq5d7cq2-en

Sedo To Hold .CO.UK Auction in May

Sedo will be hosting next month a .CO.UK domain name auction.The auction will take place May 6-13,2014 and will include some interesting .CO.UK domain names.

 

The highest bidder will be given first priority to acquire the domain name.

You can still submit your .CO.UK domain names if the domains you have fulfill the following criteria :

    The domain must be a .co.uk
    The domain is short, a real word and is easy to remember
    It is a generic domain, e.g. like car.co.uk, creditcard.co.uk or books.co.uk
    The domain is easy to spell and not prone to typographical errors
    The domain is product-related and therefore has a high commercial value
    The domain doesn’t violate any third party rights (e.g. trademark rights)
    The domain name is in English
    The reserve price for the domain is reasonable

Check out Sedo.com for more information