Indotogel.com domain name top Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $33,000.Highlights also include Runqay.ca,leading the ccTLD category at $19,000 and Shp.net,leading the Other category at 10,000 EUR.

Other notable domain name sales include :

.COM

microlancer.com 15,000 USD

sipx.com 14,760 USD

inspirational.com 9,999 USD

uspap.com 8,800 USD

birdify.com 8,000 USD

enriched.com 8,000 USD

dagrasso.com 7,800 EUR

ejej.com 7,140 USD

iamerican.com 7,000 USD

jagen.com 6,990 EUR

emeasure.com 6,250 USD

point-rouge.com 6,000 EUR

windenergie.com 5,999 EUR

feuds.com 5,750 USD

businessdna.com 5,250 USD

bizzoom.com 5,000 USD

unjustus.com 5,000 USD

knowledgeinc.com 5,000 USD

linkbutler.com 5,000 USD

ccTLD

agri.eu 16,500 EUR

forever.co.uk 16,000 USD

panzerspiele.de 10,000 EUR

quicktune.de 7,060 EUR

sellmyhousefast.co.uk 4,000 GBP

yubi.de 3,900 EUR

yo.nl 3,600 EUR

stahldesign.de 3,350 EUR

ta.gs 3,100 GBP

lieblingsrezept.de 3,050 EUR

24v.de 3,001 EUR

supergame.be 2,500 EUR

transport.us 2,500 USD

franceluxe.fr 2,500 EUR

qrshopping.at 2,300 USD

resus.eu 2,250 EUR

Other

origami.org 10,000 USD

wetten.biz 6,500 EUR

mail.biz 4,900 USD

samy.net 3,800 EUR

hut.net 3,000 USD

kaninchenstall.info 2,750 EUR

hellomobile.net 2,500 EUR

kinderkleidung.net 2,500 EUR

schweizer-kredit.net 2,500 EUR

casinospiele.info 2,250 EUR

jewels.biz 1,610 USD

pokerlife.net 1,500 EUR

citizen.mobi 1,500 USD

lhn.org 1,500 USD

For more details check out Sedo.com

In line with international standards, DENIC has made available a whois service for many years. This information service provides access to a variety of domain data and thus guarantees that whoever needs to can quickly find out whom to contact, if a .de domain causes technical problems or infringes rights. Duly taking account of the legitimate interests of data privacy, the service has been developed continuously. User data are protected and access is secured through access restrictions.

Last but not least because of the limited access, DENIC was asked to create a function in the whois that enables a domain holder to actively prove in a secure and easy manner that he/she actually is the holder of a .de domain.

DENIC has now complied with this request: Upon completion of today’s maintenance, as from about 17:00 CET, the DENIC web-whois will offer our customers the option to obtain in response to a whois query a signed output with a .de domain’s holder data. Such signed whois output can be used to prove beyond doubt who was the holder of the domain name at the time when the query was made, for example, if the domain is planned to be sold or in case of matters of legal relevance.

The advantage of a query with signed information output is that the received data is reliable and unforgeable and that it bears a time stamp.

To ensure that a domain query is submitted by an authorized person and not by an automated script (bot), also the new expanded whois function is protected by a Captcha, which must be deciphered by the requester to get access to the domain holder data. To further improve security, the Captcha version introduced in 2009 was replaced by reCAPTCHA in the course of the current amendments.

You will find more detailed information about the new signed whois output and the exact procedure of signing and verifying domain data on our special information page.

This announcement was sourced from :

http://www.denic.de/en/denic-in-dialogue/news/3551.html?cHash=685e4801be7a3b0447519af236b752cd

SX Registry,the company behind .SX domain ,announced recently that it will launch the local Sint Maarten Priority Phase on September 22,2012.

This phase that will launch on September 22nd until October 6th,2012 will be only the companies that are registered at the Chamber of Commerce prior to January of 2012.The second phase will launch on October 7th and will run untill October 21st,2012.This phase will offer individuals the opportunity to register their own domain names and emails.

Those who want to register a .SX domain name should have established their residency in Sint Maater prior to January of 2012.

You can read the press release after the jump :

“On September 22, 2012, SX Registry will officially launch the local Sint Maarten Priority Phase. This phase will be launched in two timeframes. The first timeframe is for companies only and will launch on September 22nd until Oct 6th. Companies registered at the Chamber of Commerce prior to January of 2012 are eligible. The second part will launch on October 7th and run till Oct 21st, and will give individuals the opportunity to register their domain name(s) and email(s). Individuals interested should have established their residency in Sint Maarten prior to January of 2012.

The local Sint Maarten Priority phase is to help companies and individuals from the island benefit from the .SX domain. Usage of a top level domain will affect how search engines will perceive your site, and will affect the amount of traffic you will receive, therefore Sint Maarten having her very own TLD will increase the interest for the island in the various industry via the world wide web. SX Registry’s objective is to promote the usage of .SX domains on a national and international level.

A sales force to finalize agreements with local Registrars is busy at the moment and the local registrars will be announced very soon in the coming weeks. This entails that local companies and soon individuals will be able to register their new domain(s) and email(s). Government and the business community is encouraged to take the necessary steps within their operations and secure their domain(s) and email(s) registered as .SX. for more information please visit www.Registry.sx

Last November 2011, St. Maarten launched its new top-level internet domain (TLD) .SX, becoming the only other country in the world with the same two letter code .SX and three letter airport code SXM. The other country is Mexico which is represented as .MX and airport code MEX. This has opened up many possibilities for the island in the internet industry. SX Registry is an open registry that markets on the open market making potential for revenue greater compared to closed registry.

The registry of the .SX top Level Domain (TLD) is managed by SX Registry SA. SX Registry promotes the usage and the registration of .SX domain names on a national and international level via attractive registrar packages and a dedicated marketing program. Truly global, the Registry is based on the island of Sint Maarten with technical operations performed by OpenRegistry.com in Canada and Luxembourg.

On August 30^th three members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano raising questions about the legality and methodology of the Operations In Our Sites domain seizure program jointly launched by those Cabinet Departments in November 2010.

The letter (available at lofgren.house.gov/images/Letter_to_AG_Holder_083012.pdf ) was signed by Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), and Jared Polis (D-CO), all of whom were leaders in opposing the SOPA domain suspension bill that crashed and burned in the House early this year.