Familiar faces top results from survey. Sedo and Parked.com were selected as the best domain name parking companies in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. Sedo took top honors with 23% of the vote, followed by Parked.com at 18%. Here are the top five vote-getters: 1. Sedo 23% 2. Parked.com 18% 3. NameDrive 13% 4. SmartName 6% 5. DomainSponsor and ...

The owners of PokerCompany.com made history last week when they purchased Poker.org for $1 million, by far the highest price ever reported for a .org domain. We have learned that they also paid the second highest price ever reported for a .org domain in the previously unannounced sale we are reporting today....

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gets low marks. The percentage of people rating ICANN’s performance as “Good” has hit its lowest point since Domain Name Wire started its annual survey five years ago. In the fifth survey, including responses from over 500 people in the domain name industry, only 12% rated their ...

Survey finds little support among domain community. Support for ICANNs “current plan” of introducing new top level domain names is still limited — although the ice may be thawing. In the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey, 26% of respondents said they were in favor of ICANN’s current plan to introduce new top level domain names. ...

…for some domains, anyway. A lot of the talk around new top level domain names is the lack of pricing controls on providers. A company that launches a new TLD can set prices however they wish, and owners of existing TLDs worry that this idea would then be applied to their domains. Have a ...

Registry wants to offer name.xxx later this year. After winning an independent review against ICANN for denying ICM Registry’s application for a .xxx top level domain name, the registry says it hopes to begin offering .xxx domain names later this year. It has already opened up a process on its web site to pre-reserve names. Whether ...

Domain company plants flag in Texas. Last month I hinted that a domain name company was on its way to Austin. Now it’s official: domain parking and sales company NameDrive has set up shop in the capital of Texas. The company has leased space north of Austin, which it is currently readying for move-in. Four ...

DNCruise sets sail this October. The domain name industry is getting its first floating domain name conference — a cruise this October. Patrick Ruddell of ChefPatrick.com is organizing DNCruise, taking off from Miami October 11. The cruise will make stops in Key West, Florida and Cozumel, Mexico, before returning October 15. It is timed nicely ...

Domain names registered for attack on global warming. Looks like the Republicans — perhaps the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) — are getting ready to ask the question “Who Cares About Global Warming?” WhoCaresAboutGlobalWarming.com, .net, and .org were all registered last Friday to Smartech Corp, which happens to be the favored web hosting company for NRCC. ...

Domain owner sues pool equipment company to block transfer after unfavorable WIPO ruling. Earlier this month we wrote about a WIPO panel awarding the domain name Hayward.com to a pool company called Hayward Industries, even though Hayward.com is the name of a city in California and the domain didn’t show any links related to pool equipment. ...