Posted by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 24 September 2008

We arrived in New York today and will be reporting LIVE from TRAFFIC East the rest of the week. DomainNews will be conducting video interviews with domain industry VIPs. If you would like to participate and help us answer YOUR questions, we invite you to send us your questions here. We look forward to hearing from our readers to help us improve the quality of our work. Stay tuned!

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Posted by Chief Editor , Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Rick Latona Auctions would like to announce a last minute addition to their T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York Auction. Seoul.com will be on the auction block! Seoul is the largest city in South Korea boasting over 10 million people and is the world's 2nd largest metropolitan area.  Bidding can be done live at the auction in New York as well as online at http://www.proxibid.com/ricklatona

Source:  Submission by Rick Schwartz to DomainNews.com on September 24th, 2008 - Posted by Roland G. Buck - Chief Editor

Posted by David Goldstein , Wednesday, 24 September 2008

In an effort to clamp down on illegal and unregulated online gambling, the Kentucky Govenor Steve Beshear sought and was granted an order transferring the domain names of 141 illegal online gambling sites to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

This is the first action of its type against online gambling operators that has led to the seizure of domain names. The list includes bodoglife.com, doylesroom.com and fulltiltpoker.com. The first of these, bodoglife.com, has also been in the news over disputes over the bodog.com domain name earlier this year.

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Posted by Caycee Boyce , Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Are you interested in marketable domains like Games.mobi, XXX.mobi and Bank.mobi? If so, then don‘t miss your chance to invest in these and hundreds of other top names, during Sedo’s exclusive dotMobi auction event. The auction is being held from Nov 5th at 12pm EST to Nov 12th at approximately 12pm EST.

Sedo will offer you never before available in-demand .mobi domains that were put on reserve by the dotMobi registry exclusively for this auction. The .mobi domains up for bid may be just what your portfolio or business has been calling for, so don’t miss your chance to bid!

Check out Sedo’s dotMobi Auction page for further details and the complete list of .mobi domains in auction!

Source: Sedo.com -- Reprinted with permission -- September 23, 2008

Posted by Caycee Boyce , Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Today ICANN is opening a public comment period on a proposed bylaw revision [PDF, 21K] from the ICANN Nominating Committee. The proposed revision would update the diversity requirements for selecting ICANN Board members to include domicile with country of citizenship.

Over the past several years, the Nominating Committee has expressed concern that being required to count more than one country of citizenship for diversity purposes often makes it difficult to select the best candidates for the Board seats that the Nominating Committee is mandated to fill. In carrying out its responsibilities to fill Seats 1 through 8, the Nominating Committee shall seek to ensure that the ICANN Board is composed of members who in the aggregate display diversity in geography, culture, skills, experience, and perspective, by applying the criteria set forth in Bylaws.

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Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 23 September 2008

by Darshaun Nadeau

Ever sat at one of the VeriSign "State of the domain" meetings at any of the ICANN meetings? Or read their reports about countries with the greatest opportunity in domains? Almost without question you will learn that Japan is earmarked as the country with the greatest opportunity for growth in the domain market. They take into consideration important factors such as GDP of a country, internet population, and current domain registration levels. With this they compare registrations with nations from around the world to come up with some predicted level of domain registrations a country should have.

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Posted by David Goldstein , Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Two-hundred highly desired domain names, including boys.mobi, cellphones.mobi, games.mobi, stamps.mobi and xxx.mobi to be made available

dotMobi – the company behind the .mobi internet domain designed to help consumers find mobile-friendly content – today announced a special online auction for 200 highly desired premium .mobi domain names including actors.mobi, bands.mobi, blackjack.mobi, boys.mobi, cellphones.mobi, doctors.mobi, games.mobi, homeloans.mobi, house.mobi, model.mobi, quotes.mobi, racing.mobi, stamps.mobi, vip.mobi and xxx.mobi.

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Posted by Brian Hall , Tuesday, 23 September 2008

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has seized 141 domain names that are used for online gambling websites.  Under Kentucky law, one must be licensed to offer any gambling service within the Commonwealth, and Kentucky has the right to seize any gambling device, which includes domain names, that violates this law.  This is the first action of its kind by a state and raises numerous concerns amongst domain owners and the Internet community, and it may have far reaching legal implications.

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Posted by Michael Gilmour , Tuesday, 23 September 2008

It appears that my first article on Dark Blue Sea (DBS) has sparked a lot of interest and just as many questions about different ways of valuing the company. I thought that it would be worthwhile going through some of my thoughts on how I view and value DBS.

DBS currently has 82,369,287 shares and based on yesterday's share price of 26 Australian cents this gives the company a market value of $AU21.4m or $US17.12. This is very low from the lofty heights last year of nearly $AU100m. Valuing DBS from a market perspective is one thing but there are other ways of building a valuation and the difference between those ways and the market capitalization is the potential opportunity of the share.

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Posted by Caycee Boyce , Tuesday, 23 September 2008

The results are in for our SedoCares' "Wishing Well" Promotion! Sedo was able to contribute 11,466 USD to the "Wishing Well", on behalf of each sale that occurred in our marketplace throughout August. Thanks to our participating Sedo members, we will be awarding 5,733 USD to the winner of the promotion and 5,733 USD to CHF International.

Congratulations to Chris Aston James, our cash prize winner! Besides being the final winner, he is also one of the many buyers and sellers who made it possible for our SedoCares team to aid the villagers in Dhabardulel, Ethiopia.

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