Comment period open to review proposed arbitration provider.

Arab Center for Domain Name Dispute Resolution (ACDR) has sent a proposal to ICANN to become a resolution provider under UDRP. Based in Jordan, ACDR is a joint venture between Arab Intellectual Property Mediation and Arbitration Society (AIPMAS) and the Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP).

ACDR plans to charge about the same as other UDRP providers for low volume cases. One or two domain names with a single member panel will cost complainants $1,500. A complaint with 11-15 domains will cost $2,700.

The group’s proposal includes a section about “Expedited & eUDRP”, but the description in that section seems to refer only to electronic filing and not to an expedited scheme similar to Czech Arbitration Court.

My take: no new UDRP providers until ICANN enters into contracts with each provider. This contract must include approval to supplemental rule changes.

IPO.com headlines strong week for domain marketplace.

Sedo had a great sales week including the sale of IPO.com that Michael Berkens wrote about on September 22. But that wasn’t the only notable sale the company brokered.

In second place was AirTickets.com at $80,000 followed by ResumeWriting.com at $66,000.

ResumeWriting.com appears to have been sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. But the buyer is peculiar. The current whois shows that EditMeNow.com, Inc is the owner. EditMeNow.com is a parked page, but the whois record for that page is Marchex. The historical whois for ResumeWriters.com shows the same EditMeNow.com Inc. owner. It appears that someone set up the company EditMeNow.com Inc and registered the domain name, then let it expire and it ended up in the the UltSearch portfolio that Marchex acquired.

Other .com sales include:

geschenk.com 40000 USD
wework.com 20000 USD
game24.com 19000 EUR
casarte.com 12500 EUR
cocomama.com 12000 GBP
criticschoice.com 12000 USD
019.com 10000 EUR
sohome.com 10000 GBP
rawdiet.com 10000 USD
allhere.com 9999 USD
albumphoto.com 9350 USD
valsport.com 8750 USD
bidoo.com 8000 GBP
adhex.com 7000 EUR
blackocean.com 6000 USD
oria.com 5500 EUR
couponfactory.com 5000 USD
digidentity.com 5000 USD

Top ccTLD sales:

local.ru 20000 USD
übersee.de 15000 EUR
sonnenbrille.de 12000 EUR
personalinjurylawyers.co.uk 11000 GBP
innogames.co.kr 7400 EUR
boletos.es 5000 EUR
premiere.co.uk 5000 EUR
moviestar.de 4860 EUR
motors.eu 4500 EUR
cubaholidays.co.uk 4000 GBP

Top “other” sales:
tracker.org 18000 EUR
bailbonds.org 8500 USD
americasbackyard.org 7000 USD
horsebetting.net 6000 USD
irondeficiency.net 5000 USD
playgroundequipment.org 5000 USD
casino24.net 5000 USD

Another week, another niche marketplace from founder of Domaining.com.

I think we should award Francois from Domaining.com the “prolific domain marketplace creator”. He’s at it again, launching a marketplace for number-only domain names at NumericDomains.com. The site already has a number of listings, primarily consisting of 3 and 4 number domains.

NumericDomains.com quickly follows the launch of TrafficDomains.com, a site dedicated to selling domain names that receive traffic. TrafficDomains.com was the first marketplace to integrate with my DNW Certified Stats system to easily display certified domain name parking stats. You can now use DNW Certified Stats with all of Francois’ marketplaces.

If you’re not into numeric domains or domains with traffic, Francois probably has another market just for you: from .co domains to brandable domains and bargain domains to premium domains. If he doesn’t have a marketplace for your niche yet, I’m sure he’s working on it.

Try out free stats sharing service and win a prize.

Have you tried DNW Certified Stats yet? It’s the easiest way to share domain name parking stats, and today I’m giving you another reason to give it a try: I’m giving away your choice of a new 32 GB iPod Touch with Facetime or an Amazon Kindle 3G with a $100 Amazon gift card to one lucky person who uses DNW Certified Stats. Here’s the deal:

1. Sign up for a free account at DNW Certified Stats if you don’t already have one.

2. Create stat certificates for some of your domain names. For each certificate you create between now and October 15 you’ll get one entry into the drawing (max 10 entries per person).

As a bonus, you’ll get 10 more entries if you send feedback about the service through the “feedback” link when you’re logged in to the site. Let me know what you like, don’t like, and suggestions for making the service more useful.

Michael Arrington sells his business to AOL.

It’s official. AOL has purchased TechCrunch.

GigaOm was the first to break the news last night that AOL was buying TechCrunch. The popular tech blog confirmed the news today.

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington spent much of the five or so years directly before starting the blog bouncing around in the domain name industry. In 1999-2000 he worked for Real Names, which was supposed to be a competitor to domain names but ended up being more like a search engine placement service. In 2001 he worked for Global Name Registry, the .name registry, for about 8 months. Finally in 2003-2004 he worked for expired domain service Pool.com.

Arrington has been a vocal critic of the domain name industry since leaving, calling it “dirty”. He got into a comment war with Frank Schilling in 2007 when Schilling called him out for his change in attitude about the domain business. Arrington labeled Schilling “king of the squatters.” After a back and forth between the two, Arrington deleted the comments.