Domain broker has good sales week.

Sedo completed three six figure domain name sales last week, capping off a great week for the company. First, it sold the three number domain name 027.com for $100,000. It also sold Pengyou.com and Pengyou.net, each for $100,000. PengYou appears to be a Mandarin word for “friend”.

Two of Sedo’s other big sales are ones I’ve already written about, including Rage.com for $49,999 and TVs.co.uk for 51,000 GBP.

Here are other notable sales for the week:

.com
afiliados.com 2010-06-16 25000 EUR
maro.com 2010-06-14 20000 USD
fxasia.com 2010-06-16 15000 USD
conformance.com 2010-06-17 10560 USD
pluspay.com 2010-06-15 10000 USD
mirrus.com 2010-06-16 10000 USD
acebrand.com 2010-06-14 9999 GBP
savingsaccountrates.com 2010-06-14 8666 GBP
rentalcarhawaii.com 2010-06-14 8600 USD
wois.com 2010-06-16 7600 EUR
rueckenschmerzenhilfe.com 2010-06-16 7200 EUR
todotusoft.com 2010-06-15 6300 EUR
textpay.com 2010-06-18 6000 USD
funtree.com 2010-06-14 6000 USD
starflash.com 2010-06-17 5600 USD
debtdirect.com 2010-06-17 5150 USD
ecred.com 2010-06-17 5000 USD
freelanced.com 2010-06-16 4999 USD
pvq.com 2010-06-17 4900 USD
socialgear.com 2010-06-14 4500 USD
cutv.com 2010-06-15 4477 USD
visiontec.com 2010-06-18 4200 USD
evology.com 2010-06-17 4000 EUR
getglasses.com 2010-06-17 4000 USD

ccTLDs
mind.cn 2010-06-14 20000 USD
work.ch 2010-06-16 20000 EUR
geschäftsideen.de 2010-06-21 15500 EUR
verkauf.de 2010-06-21 15500 EUR
report.co.uk 2010-06-21 12750 USD
fotosverkleinern.de 2010-06-17 10099 EUR
watch.it 2010-06-18 10000 USD
krafttraining.de 2010-06-16 8330 EUR
mi.eu 2010-06-16 8100 EUR
plusreisen.de 2010-06-14 5950 EUR
1b.de 2010-06-15 5500 EUR
remortgagedeals.co.uk 2010-06-18 5500 GBP
pcgames.co.uk 2010-06-17 5100 GBP
getglasses.co.uk 2010-06-17 5000 GBP
countrymusic.us 2010-06-18 5000 USD
audemars-piguet.co.il 2010-06-16 4275 USD
24.eu 2010-06-18 4100 EUR

Other
investments.net 2010-06-14 25250 USD
77.net 2010-06-14 7776 GBP
sleep.org 2010-06-14 7500 USD
knowyouroptions.org 2010-06-14 7200 USD
ws.org 2010-06-15 6006 USD
nowinnofee.net 2010-06-17 5875 GBP
cheapcarrental.net 2010-06-18 5500 USD
wordofmouth.org 2010-06-21 5000 USD
uuu.net 2010-06-18 3527 USD
ddd.net 2010-06-18 3111 USD

Door opened to favor long time new TLD supporters.

A lot of companies have been involved with shaping the new top level domain name process. They’ve spent significant funds over the past several years working through the many drafts of the applicant guidebook and some have been involved since before the first draft was published.

Technically, these early supporters don’t get a leg up in the application process, other than shaping policy to their liking.

Or do they?

During yesterday’s ICANN meeting, Constantine Roussos of the .Music initiative asked if he would get any priority given how long he’s been promoting .music. After all, anyone else can apply for the TLD when applicantions open up as well.

…I would like to discuss the outreach campaign, the communication campaign. I know I have been running with my initiative for years now. And in the DAG, there is no protection for someone like me. To Michael Palage’s point, I do have a trademark in dot music. And we’ve been working on this for years now and trying to communicate what we’re doing to the whole world, and that’s what we’ve been doing.

However, the DAG does not ensure myself and any other applicant that has been around and working on it any fairness, I might say.

I will give you an example. Let’s say the applications start. Some other dot music applicant comes in and says, “Hey, pay me $400,000 to work. We’ll do auction or we’ll do that.” These are real-life scenarios. So there’s a few things that need to be considered.

So if outreach and communication is important, maybe in the DAG you guys can add a point somewhere that says, Hey, if in your community application you’ve done sufficient outreach,” let’s say a year, “then
you get an extra point,” or something that gives a good job for doing something and reaching out.

One of the complaints about new TLDs is that many people don’t know about them, and so there needs to be a level playing field so that “insiders” don’t have an advantage.

That’s why I’m surprised by ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz’ response:

And I also — I also understand, you know, the almost frustration of you — of you all that have been here for a long time working on this process and honing it, invested your time, not only in building up your brand but also in giving your efforts as a volunteer to making sure the process is as robust as it can be and as fair as it can be.

I understand it will be for us to think about how those who have participated in the process might be rewarded….

Kurt Pritz explains what’s left to do in the long march to new top level domain names.

During Monday’s New gTLD Program Update session during ICANN’s meeting in Brussels, ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz spelled out the steps remaining to launch new top level domain names. Here they are in his words.

1. “So we’ll take the public comment in and then make a recommendation for community and board decision whether this should be the last draft version of the guidebook or not.”

2. “We have to finish the economic study”

3. “finish the program budget and get that approved”

4. “continue on with our operational readiness activities that are tracking to a program plan”

5. “continue executing on our communications strategy and the policy recommends a four-month communication. Well, we would just want to hit that over the head with a sledgehammer in an attempt to ensure that nobody in any region of the world comes up after the process is launched and says, “You
know, I didn’t know about this.”

6. Finish the root zone scaling study

7. and then provide applicant support

And there you have it.

Sports network asks arbitration panel to give it domain name for new 3D network.

Sports network ESPN has filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name ESPN3d.com.

The company announced its new ESPN 3D network in January, saying that it would show 85 sporting events in 3D during its first year. The 3D broadcasting kicked off this month with matches from the World Cup, but the network still doesn’t have the ESPN3D.com domain name.

It turns out that Los Angeles company Ideal Entertainment registered the domain name back in 2006. It used GoDaddy’s Domains by Proxy service to shield its identity. But with the filing of the UDRP, the proxy service removed the whois mask.

This will be an easy decision for the arbitration panel. But I’ve got to wonder, why did the company wait until the June launch of the network to go after the domain rather than taking care of it when it decided to launch the network?

Oh, nevermind. That would require prioritizing domain names in the product lifecycle — something few companies do.

Largest domain conference sets date for 2011.

Oversee.net’s flagship DOMAINfest Global conference is moving back a week this year to the first week of February. The conference will take place February 1-3, 2011 and will again be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California.

Hotel reservations for the event are already available. If it’s anything like last year, the hotel will sell out in a hurry even though the entire hotel is reserved for the event.

Early bird admission is $995 and available through September 30, 2010.

Last year’s event attracted about 650 people including domain investors, service providers, and lawyers. It was highlighted by a night at The Getty and a private charity fundraising party at the Playboy Mansion.

There are two additional DOMAINfest conferences between now and the main event in February. In August there will be a one day “power networking” event in New York City, and the company will hold a European show in Prague this October.

[Updated incorrect year.]