 This is unofficial, but according to Verisign's latest e-mail to registrars around the world, they claim to have acquired the London-based, Carlyle-backed company that runs the .name top level domain. Verisign, which also runs the .com, .net and .org domains, among others, sent the following e-mail to all registrars stating:"We are pleased to announce that VeriSign closed on an agreement to acquire Global Name Registry, Ltd., which includes management of the .name top level domain on October 1, 2008. We believe the addition of .name is a natural fit, as we have run the technical backend in support of .name for more than five years. What does this mean for existing registrars?  DNJournal.com just posted a completely up to date with a new double length report published today that covers all of the notable sales reported over the past two weeks since their last report was filed. Headlining the new sales column is the first seven-figure sale reported since the opening quarter of this year – a transaction that weighed in at $1,015,.000. That is the fourth biggest sale reported so far in 2008...
In our contiunued coverage of the domain seizure request by the State of Kentucky we are informing you that the Internet Commerce Association, a non-profit trade organization representing domain name investors and developers and the direct search industry, today announced it will be participating in an emergency Summit on the State of Kentucky’s unprecedented, wrongful seizure of 141 Internet gambling Websites.
There are reports such as one in The Huffington Post that with Sarah Palin's hotness, among some, has led to the McCain campaign registering the domain name voteforthemilf.com. Currently this forwards to the Google home page.
With the depletion of IPv4 addresses meaning the conversion to IPv6 is becoming vital, Leo Vegoda writes on the ICANN blog where IPv6 deployment most evident.
On December 16, .SE releases reserved geographic domain names.
Michele Neylon believes the time may have come for the current .ie
registry operator to be changed, believing that while the current
registry operator, IEDR, has improved over the last few years, it "is
probably not the best organisation to manage the ccTLD in the future."
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NameMedia today announced a strategic domain marketing agreement with the newly launched Internet domain marketplace, PremierDomains.com. Under the terms of the agreement, NameMedia’s Afternic DLS global domain sales platform will be the exclusive provider of aftermarket domain names to PremierDomains. Beginning this month, PremierDomains.com customers have full access to more than 800,000 business targeted domain names, allowing them to successfully launch and grow their online presence through their existingPremierDomains.com membership...
Moniker’s Extended Online Auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York concluded last night with total sales of more than $900,000, bringing the total sales for Moniker’s live and online domain auctions to nearly $4 million. Moniker’s Live Domain Auctions held at the New York conference logged sales of approximately $3 million.