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The third time was not a charm for proponents of the implementation of the gTLD .xxx. In a 9:5 vote on Friday March 30, 2007, the proposal was rejected yet again. ICM Registry LLC had first submitted the proposal to ICANN seven years. Needless to say, ICM Chief Executive Stuart Lawley was not pleased with [...]

The domain wars continue. Today’s bout: YouTube.com, Google's popular video site, is threatening to launch a lawsuit to gain control over YouTube.cl, a domain that currently hosts a website developed for Chilean audiences, aggregating online videos from YouTube.com.
The issue at stake in this confrontation is whether Andrés Chapero, the man who registered YouTube.cl with knowledge [...]

The legal eagles at The Dummit Law Firm have their sights set on RegisterFly.
They are calling for persons who have been wronged by the registrar to join a class action lawsuit sparked by allegedly wronged domain owner Anne Martinez.
More specifically, the law firm is calling for persons who have experienced one or more of the [...]

DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below.
Buckhead.com leads the list with an amazing $250,000 sale; the domain was sold in a private transaction to DigiPawn, whose owner Rick Latona lives in Buckhead, an upscale neighborhood in Atlanta.
Also noteworthy are several five figure .pro sales, including Video.pro which sold for $35,000 [...]

Bruce Tonkin and Kurt Pritz shared some interesting information on the progress towards creating new generic top level domains (gTLDs) at the March 2007 ICANN meetings in Portugal.
Tonkin began the session by providing a history of domains, going back as far as when domain names were more like domain codes (IP addresses) because they were [...]

Visa today announced a strategic investment in dotMobi. This investment adds Visa to a consortium of 13 leading mobile operators, device manufacturers and Internet content providers.
Visa brings to dotMobi extensive mobile commerce and payment capabilities, including solutions for contactless mobile payment, Over the Air (OTA) personalization, coupons and direct marketing.
“Visa’s strategic alliance with dotMobi puts [...]

Rob Hall, the CEO of Momentous, the company that owns Pool.com, Namescout.com and Rebel.com, used his face time as a presenter at the March 2007 ICANN Meeting in Lisbon Portugal to speak on a hot domaining topic: That mystical time period following domain expiry.
Hall started off his session by delving right into the basics. First, [...]