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.COM registry Verisign reported revenue of $136 million for the Q1,2013,up 15% from the same quarter a year ago .The company reported a net income of $85 million and diluted earnings per share of $0,52 for Q1,2013.

[news release] A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) at its conference in Buenos Aires this week reveals that phishers are breaking into hosting providers with unprecedented success, using these facilities to launch mass phishing attacks.

Hilco Streambank announced recently that it will auction off multiple premium domain names,including ETM.com,Bargain.com,BrandEquity.com,VirtualMall.com and 1800myWebsite.com .

ICANN has formally announced they will be opening a hub office in Turkey's largest city Istanbul their President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé announced today.

SexStories.com and AsianPorn.com domain name sold for $200,000 each through HuntingMoon ,topped Domain Name Journal weekly sales list of reported domain names in the week to April 21,2013 .

According to a press release sent out yesterday,the Bowl Championship Series will be replace by the College Football Playoff .Therefore,ESPN acquired CollegeFootballPlayOff.Com domain name .

The Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ announced that it is hostin thie year's Russian Internet Governance Forum,to be held on April 25,2013 in Moscow's Marriott Grand Hotel .

DotGreen Community,Inc. announced recently that the application for .GREEN Top-Level Domain (TLD) passed ICANN's initial evaluation on April 19,2013 .

[news release] Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, today released its Fourth Quarter, 2012 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform™, the report provides insight into key global statistics including connection speeds, attack traffic, and network connectivity and availability, among many others.

Purpose (Brief): To solicit input on how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable to broad categories of New gTLD strings.

The National Arbitration Forum (NAF) announced yesterday that domain name disputes lodged with it in 2012 passed 20,000 for the year, while the number of cases dropped to 2060 from the 2011 figure of 2082.

The relaunched .pw ccTLD has got off to a solid start as a “generic” TLD with 50,000 registrations in the three weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase.

FarmRealEstate.com topped Sedo's weekly sales chart at $20,000.Highlights also include låna.nu,leading the ccTLD category at $19,300 and Jiandan.net and Acorn.org,leading the "Other" category at $5,000 .

Afternic has just sent in their domain name sales report for the previous week and sales add up to a total of $1,003,088 .The list is lead by the sale of TabletScreen.com for $25,000 .

Sedo is hosting these days its monthly GreatDomains auction that runs until April 25,2013.The auction features 136 domain names,out of which 55 already received bids .

Afnic,the company behind .FR domain,released the April issue of the Industry Report,dedicated to the individual and corporate holders of domains under the .FR TLD.

After an extended period of negotiations, ICANN is posting a Proposed Final 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for public comment.

[news release] This summer, a number of new domain names will likely start appearing on the Web. Generic names such as .apple, .home, .app, .vegas or .music could join such stalwarts as .com, .net and .org. ICANN, a non-profit organization charged with administering the system, has been considering the expansion for several years. University of Houston Law Center professor Jacqueline D. Lipton spoke on the topic last weekend at the Second Annual International Intellectual Property Law Scholar's Roundtable at the University of San Diego. Lipton sees the new system as a significant test in the development of innovative systems for global governance of commerce and free speech.

According to an email sent out today by the organizers of the T.RA.F.F.I.C. conference,Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu decided to re-locate the Florida shows to an undisclosed new venue in 2014 and 2015.

The top European domain name conference,Domaining ,kicks-off in Valencia,Spain in three days .The conference will be held at the Sorolla Palace Hotel ,April 25-27 ,2013 .