The domain name Medicine.Org for $75,000 on Sedo tonight. The domain was sold after the Sedo weekly report was issued and therefore not included. The domain has an original registration date of 1995. The domain was sold by Eric Shannon of LatPro, Inc. who seems to have owned the domain since late 2006. Congrats to the buyer and seller … [Read more...]
Approval To Bid On 1 & 2 Character .Org Domains At Godaddy.com Opens Today
Go Daddy will be auctioning off 42 rare, valuable one- and two-character .org registry owned domain names as part of Project 94. However the registry, Public Interest Registry (PIR) set aside these .org domain names for registrants who embody its core values. Starting today, if you want to participate in the auction, you can request approval on the .org Event Auction page. We recommend … [Read more...]
Godaddy & Enom To Sell 94 One & Two Character .ORG Registry Owned Domain Names
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, today announced the release of 94 previously unregistered one- to two- character .ORG addresses, Through a partnership with GoDaddy and eNom, the initiative – called “Project94” – gives organizations the unprecedented opportunity to enhance their brand with one of the shortest and perhaps most memorable domain names … [Read more...]
.Org Passes 10 Million Domain Names Milestone
According to a press release tonight the .Org registry has passed the 10 Million domain name mark. PIR "the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain announced tonight that it has reached a major milestone with the registration of its 10 millionth .ORG domain name: JADFORUM.ORG, which was registered on June 24, 2012 with Go Daddy. " "The domain name was registered by the Jordan River and … [Read more...]
PIR Operator of .Org, Applies For Four New gTLD’s IDN of .Org and For .Ngo & .Ong
PIR, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, announced today it has applied for the creation and management of four internationalized domain names (IDNs) recognized as .ORG in non-Latin-based scripts and for the new gTLD's of .Ngo and Ong "As part of its application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), PIR submitted for the generic top-level domains … [Read more...]
.Org Releases 6 Month Report “The Dashboard” Registrations Grow 10%: Renewals at Over 75%
.ORG operated by The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, "The Dashboard," for the second half of 2011 Overall, .ORG registrations grew by 9.9% in 2011, reaching 9.6 million total domains under management by the end of 2011, a net gain of 411,002 for the second half of the year. "The Dashboard" also revealed that: The renewal rate … [Read more...]
Arizona Bar Rules Lawyers Can Use .Org’s
Wow talk about being a little behind the times. According to a story in azcentral.com, the state bar of Arizona has just issued an opinion allowing attorney's in the state to use .org domain names. Yes up to now attorney's in Arizona have been prohibited from using .org domain names in their practice. ""The ethics panel a decade ago ruled that firms that have websites must set them up … [Read more...]