Fiction and Freemarket Top Reported Weekly Sales

A slow week for domain name sales saw no sales above the $100,000 mark in the week to 11 July according to Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales. The top sales for the week were freemarket.com and fiction.com who sold for $93,000 (sold through Sedo) and $90,000 (private sale brokered by Moniker) respectively.

RIM buys BlackPad.com

RIM (Research In Motion ) has recently acquired the domain name BlackPad.com .This could only mean that RIM's new BlackBerry Tablet will be called BlackPad .

Global Internet Security Update Aims to Prevent Cybercrime

A critical upgrade to the internet's infrastructure that will help make it more secure has been made in what is described as an historic collaboration between ICANN, the US Department of Commerce and VeriSign. The upgrade is to the domain name system and aims to protect Internet users from certain forms of online fraud. The upgrade will eventually allow Internet users to know with certainty that they have been directed to the website they intended.

Moniker releases the DOMAINfest New York auction catalog

The much anticipated DOMAINfest New York auction catalog has been released .Moniker live domain name auction introduces a great collection of domain names for auction .