The domain name YouBuy.com was sold for $35,000 via Sedo .According to whois records,the domain name owner is Martin Kuster .

Moreover,the domain was created in 2001 .

Another interesting domain name sale is Sexonthebeach.com ,which sold for $15,000 . Sparkonto.de was sold for 13,100 EUR ,while ZFT.com was sold for $16,000 .

Other notable domain name sales include :

heroimages.com    2,000 USD
cityspreads.com    3,000 GBP
brownies.no    1,500 USD
swissvpn.com    2,000 EUR
123webseite.de    2,500 EUR
haberstock.de    1,600 EUR
my-apps.com    6,200 USD
zoorama.co.uk    10,000 EUR
erotic-art.com    2,229 USD
healthconnected.com    4,000 USD
getactive.org    1,350 EUR
my-apps.com    6,200 USD
steeltech.co    2,000 USD
tiramizoo.de    8,500 EUR
blu.fr    1,750 EUR
oled.info    1,150 USD
creartis.ch    5,238 EUR
sarees.in    9,500 USD
brownies.no    1,500 USD

For more details check out Sedo.com

Review Team Asks for Community Comment on Draft Recommendations that Could Bring Big Changes to Whois

Whois allows you to look up the name and contact information of whoever operates any website domain – or at least, it should. But it isn’t always accurate. In some cases, Whois contact information is patently false, listing as website operators

As part of ICANN’s Affirmation of Commitments responsibilities, Whois policy recently underwent extensive review by an independent team comprised of representatives from across the ICANN constituencies, a law enforcement representative, and two independent experts. The Whois Policy Review Team’s scope was to “review the extent to which ICANN’s Whois policy and its implementation are effective, meet the legitimate needs of law enforcement, and promote consumer trust.”

The team has posted a draft of their Final Report [PDF, 1.04 MB] for public comment until 18 March 2012. Comprehensive and straightforward, the report lays out systematically what the team found lacking with Whois policy and what they think should be done about it.

For example, after reviewing Whois policy and its implementation, the team determined that it has not kept pace with the real world (citing the introduction of Internationalized Domain Names and the emergence of privacy and proxy services). Further, the team finds that ICANN has neglected to respond to the needs of law enforcement communities “both in the accuracy of Whois data and in response times for access and action,” and also finds that the current implementation of Whois services does not help to build consumer trust.  (See the team’s report [PDF, 1.04 MB] for a full explanation of their findings).

The topic of Whois touches upon a wide-ranging constellation of related topics. The report says, “Issues abound including right to privacy, anonymity, intellectual property protection, security and abuse, among others. Each is important. None more so than the other.” Nonetheless, the team forged ahead to list 20 recommendations for fixing Whois.

Recommendations offered by the team for community input are aimed at increasing data accuracy, ensuring data access (including when privacy and proxy services are involved), and advancing a Whois model for Internationalized Domain Names, as well as making Whois a strategic priority with sufficient resources, communication, and outreach efforts.  The draft report includes recommendations for specific actions in all of these areas (such as ICANN taking measures to reduce the number of unreachable WHOIS registrations by 50% within 12 months, as referenced above).

This announcement was sourced from :

http://www.icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/whois-rt-reducing-unreachable-27jan12-en.htm

Sedo is hosting these days a Benelux auction for domains with the .BE and .NL extensions .The auction runs until February 2,2012 and features 129 .nl and .be domain names .

Blog.de already has six bids with the highest bid of 2,999 EUR,while SexClubs.nl received three bids with the highest bid of 4,999 EUR .

Other interensting domain names in the auction include :

Weg.nl
Broeken.nl
Woonruimte.nl
Fruit.nl
Distributie.nl
Screens.nl
Ring.nl
OutSourcing.nl
Jezus.nl
Net.nl
Audio.be
Freelancers.nl
DJ.be
Deals.be
Ecommerce.nl
CreditCard.be

You can see the entire inventory here .