Yahoo Sells Sandwich.com Domain for $137,500

Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich.com for $137,500 through Sedo.com.Sandwich.com had a reserve range of $50,000 – $99,000.

According to whois records,the domain name was first registered on July 3rd,1997.The domain name was part of Yahoo’s themed auction and it was the highest sale.

PostaJob.com was the most active domain name in the auction,with over 125 bids and sold for $13,500 .The reserve range for PostAJoc.com was $500 – $999.

Dot Latin LLC and Sedo Partnered to make .UNO Domain Extension the Number One Destination for Hispanic Communities

Sedo, the world’s largest premium domain name marketplace and monetization provider,has partnered with Dot Latin LLC to introduce the new gTLD .UNO onto the Internet.

You can read the press release after the jump :

“-Sedo, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace and monetization provider, has partnered with Dot Latin LLC to introduce the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .UNO onto the Internet. Dot Latin is the latest registry to select Sedo and engaged with the domain industry leader to conduct sunrise and landrush auctions, define a premium list of the extension’s most valuable assets and provide brokerage and additional auctions for its premium domains.

Dot Latin established .UNO to provide a domain extension that will globally connect and unite Hispanic and Latino communities, businesses, individuals and consumers. .UNO is designed for companies and marketers that want to provide information, products, and services directly to the Spanish-speaking marketplace.

“Latinos need a single domain extension they can rely upon to more easily find information online, and .UNO is the one that will help marketers and companies reach Hispanic consumer more directly,” said Shaul Jolles, CEO of Dot Latin LLC. “As we bring .UNO to market, we looked for a partner that is experienced in the domain business and has a strong presence in Spanish speaking markets around the globe. Sedo uniquely fit those qualifications and was a natural partner to help us reach the largest audience of Hispanic consumers that will be excited to have their own place online.”

Sedo offers a comprehensive suite of gTLD services for registries to help them launch new extensions successfully. This includes promotional and marketing support for generating leads during the pre-launch, sunrise, landrush and general availability phases. In addition, Sedo’s support team speaks Spanish, Portuguese and 21 other languages, and the company maintains various language-specific versions of its domain marketplace – including the Spanish and only Portuguese-language domain website, launched earlier this year – to facilitate domain transactions for non-English speaking users.

“With a large and digitally-savvy Spanish speaking population around the globe, the potential market for .UNO is immense,” said Tobias Flaitz, CEO of Sedo. “Dot Latin is well positioned to unite that population under the .UNO domain extension, and we’re looking forward to helping them reach that goal.”

Dot Latin will begin the sunrise phase for .UNO on December 15, 2013. For those interested in the .UNO registry, more information is available at www.unodominio.com.”

Part 4 of 4 – Conclusion: SLD Blocking Is Too Risky without TLD Rollback by Burt Kaliski, Verisign

ICANN’s second level domain (SLD) blocking proposal includes a provision that a party may demonstrate that an SLD not in the initial sample set could cause “severe harm,” and that SLD can potentially be blocked for a certain period of time.

The extent to which that provision would need to be exercised remains to be determined. However, given the concerns outlined in Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, it seems likely that there could be many additions (and deletions!) from the blocked list given the lack of correlation between the DITL data and actual at-risk queries.

If the accumulated risk from non-blocked SLDs were to become too large, it could become necessary for ICANN to withdraw the entire gTLD from the global DNS root. Changes to the DNS root, once properly approved and authorized, can be implemented rapidly by updating the root zone file and notifying root server operators that a new zone file is available. This part of the process is as straightforward for deletions as for additions. The approval and authorization process, however, would need to be much faster for a deletion than it currently is for an addition because of the urgency of making the change or “rollback” after a determination was reached that a gTLD’s delegation needed to be revoked. The importance of rapid delegation is affirmed in Recommendation 3 of SAC062: Advisory Concerning the Mitigation of Name Collision Risk, published Nov. 7 by ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC):

Recommendation 3: ICANN should explicitly consider under what circumstances un-delegation of a TLD is the appropriate mitigation for a security or stability issue. In the case where a TLD has an established namespace, ICANN should clearly identify why the risk and harm of the TLD remaining in the root zone is greater than the risk and harm of removing a viable and in-use namespace from the DNS. Finally, ICANN should work in consultation with the community, in particular the root zone management partners, to create additional processes or update existing processes to accommodate the potential need for rapid reversal of the delegation of a TLD.

For similar reasons, the DNS resource record TTLs for a new gTLD needs to be managed carefully to minimize residual effects that may occur should a problematic TLD delegation be removed.

Conclusion

ICANN’s proposal to accelerate the delegation of new gTLDs that implement SLD blocking misses the point of risk mitigation for name collisions. First, it relies on DITL data sets that are not statistically valid for determining whether an SLD is at risk. Second, it overlooks the qualitative analysis that is necessary for determining whether an installed system is at risk. And third, it lacks the failsafe of a rollback capability that is a necessary precaution in case the aggregate risk reaches a point that is otherwise unmanageable.

These factors argue for a more focused evaluation of SLD blocking before it is widely adopted. They also point to the importance of understanding how installed systems are likely to be affected by changes in the global DNS, and the effectiveness of different risk mitigation techniques. The complexity of this task should not be underestimated, as the recently published SAC062 makes clear in its analysis of the benefits and risks of “trial delegation,” which has been proposed as a way to understand the impact a full delegation might have.

To accelerate the applied research that will add to this understanding in these and many other areas, Verisign Labs is organizing a new Workshop and Prize on Root Causes and Mitigation of Name Collisions (WPNC) in early 2014. The call for qualitative analysis remains vital, and even more so if the changes to the global DNS are accelerated without fully understanding their impact.

Additional posts in this series:

This article by Verisign’s Burt Kaliski was sourced with permission from:
blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/part_4_of_4_conclusion

Kentwood.com Domain Name Sold for $40,000

Kentwood Real Estate has recently acquired Kentwood.com domain name from Digimedia for $40,000.Kentwood.com is now forwarding to DenverRealEstate.com,which is Kentwood’s primary website.