Recommendation 9, Part 2 Concerning a New Provision to Lock and Unlock Domain Names
Purpose (Brief): Public notice is hereby provided of the proposed change to the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy to address the locking and unlocking of domain names that is considered for adoption as well as an opportunity to comment on the adoption of the proposed policy change, prior to ICANN Board consideration.
Forum Announcement: Comment Period Opens on Date: 23 January 2012
Public Comment Box Link: www.icann.org/en/public-comment/irtp-b-rec9-part2-23jan12-en.htm
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-23jan12-en.htm
Online pre-bidding for the DOMAINfest domain name auction is now underway.QE.com is the domain name with the highest bid at $57,500 and it has met its reserve.
CivilUnion.com domain hit $1,500 and hasn’t met its reserve,while CaliforniaRolls.com domain received a $300 bid and met its reserve .
DOMAINfest 2012 Global conference is one week away.This year’s conference will be held in Santa Monica,California from January 31,2012 to February 2,2011 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel Biz Stone,Twitter co-founder will be the keynote speaker .
Two domain name auction will be held :
Moniker’s Low & No Reserve Plus Premium Domain Auction – on February 2,2012 from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
Moniker’s Extended Online Premium Domain Auction – February 2,2011 through February 16,2012 .
For this year’s show,DOMAINfest organizers introduced a new contest-the Fantasy Domaining Contest .You will have to show everybody how good your PPC domaining skills are .The winner will receive a travel stipend of $1,000 plus four nights hotel plus free DOMAINfest admission .The second place will receive free DFG Conference Ticket and the thrid place will receive 50%off DFG Conference Ticket.
The auction will be held on February 2,2012 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time . Here are some of the domains you can bid on :
1800business.com
civilunion.com
eco.org
emails.com
eve.com
host.com
internetradio.com
juice.com
marriages.com
planners.com
plasmatv.com
platinum.com
promo.com
qe.com
qr.com
security.com
unplugged.com
work.com
The Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings Limited have announced that Bayern Connect GmbH, the German operating company in which TLDH has a majority holding, has been exclusively awarded the contract to apply for the .BAYERN gTLD string by the Bavarian State Government.
Top Level Domain Holdings’ wholly owned registry services company, Minds+Machines, will provide the back-end registry services for the proposed new domain. Revenue to the Company will be based on a share of the revenues generated by the domain.
“We view .BAYERN as a very significant win for Bayern Connect and for TLDH,” said Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings.
“We are fully aware of the responsibility entrusted to us and plan to fully support Bayern Connect in its mission, continued Van Couvering. “Germany has 82 million inhabitants, 62 million internet users and 15 million domain names registered under .DE. By comparison, Bavaria has 12.5 million inhabitants. We foresee a long and mutually profitable relationship with Bayern Connect and the people of Bavaria through this initiative.”
Top Level Domain Holdings is currently supporting a portfolio of gTLD applications ranging from geographic applications, wholly-owned or joint venture applications for generic word based domains, and applications by third party clients where Top Level Domain’s registry services company, Minds+Machines, provides the registry service.
