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The news follows the settlement of the first round of auctions, which saw $9.01 million shared between losing applicants and Innovative for the rights to six new gTLD strings.

“[A]ll of the participants from this auction who have additional strings in contention have signed on to use the process to resolve their remaining contentions,” Innovative said.

That would mean Afilias, Merchant Law Group and XYZ.com, which took part in this month’s auctions, are all likely to attempt to settle their outstanding contention sets with Innovative.

That’s another roughly 40 strings on top of Donuts’ already-committed monster portfolio.

Of course, the auctions will only be able to go ahead if all of the other applicants in each contention set also agree to participate, which in some cases will be a non-starter.

The money from the first auctions has already been distributed to the losing applicants, according to Innovative.

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Sedo sold $1.2 million in domain for the week.

Afternic sold $1,202,401 in domainnames for the week.

Sedo Sales

Afternic Sales

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When I clicked on their Twitter link it goes to the Go Daddy twitter page and same for the Facebook link. I sent the owner a nice email today (actually nice, I’m not being sarcastic) asking him to remove my content from his site.

I thought I would let the community know. I don’t see any harm being done and assume it’s an honest mistake because, well, I just don’t like to pick fights with people, life it too short so I’ll assume it’s some kid who’s just trying to setup a blog for him or herself.

That being said I’m pretty sure that none of us want someone else taking credit for our blog posts and creating duplicate content out there.

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 One of the biggest and most talked-about parties is taking place tomorrow night at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica and Demand Media is the host of the party.

During the conference Stewart Marlborough, the EVP of Media for Demand Media (say that five times fast!) will be speaking along with Devin Price, a Senior UI Engineer with the company. Of course you can expect many other members of the Demand Media family will be there soaking up the LA startup scene.

Of course Daina and I will also be there as Thursday has a Fashion Startup-focus and Fashion Party that we’re really looking forward to. LA’s biggest startup event of the year is here – Silicon Beachfest here we come!

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The founder and CEO, Brett van Zuiden told TechCrunch,

stands for something much larger than the former, more product-focused title (source – TechCrunch)

The name name InkFilePicker.com was hand-registered on June 7th and the company is branding itself as Ink. While some name owners might say, “They should have bought Ink.com!” That actually isn’t going to hurt them at all in this case. Ink.com is being used by the Flint Group and anyone who accidentally does go to Ink.com will instantly see they are on the wrong site and probably go to Google and type “ink file picker” since that’s what the company does and owning the exact-match .COM they’ll be right there at the top.

While a domain names broker might try to convince a startup like this to go for Ink.com, I think they’re spending their funding dollars very wisely. Even if Ink.com were for sale it would be at least $500K but probably more and spending 25%-50% of their funding on a domains doesn’t make any sense.

They already have customers, they have funding, and they have a team that can execute. Now they have a domain names that they paid less than $10 and the ability to call themselves Ink. Remember, for a startup the secret sauce is building a great team that can execute on a great idea, with $1.8M in funding I am sure Ink will continue to rock it. Congrats to the whole team on the rebranding!

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Nominet, the registry behind the .uk namespace for the United Kingdom, has put forth a new plan to offer second level domains to the public. Currently, registrations are only available at the third level.

The group’s previous proposal to offer domain names such as example.uk instead of example.co.uk was shelved in February after a number of stakeholders lodged complaints about the program.

The earlier proposal wouldn’t have given priority to existing third level .uk domain name holders. It also had a planned wholesale cost of £20 per names per year, which is about ten times the cost of a third level registration.

The new plan, now open to community feedback, would give priority to the owner of a third level domain name. If you own example.co.uk, .org.uk, etc. you’d get first dibs on example.uk. In the event that more than one of the same third level domain names are registered (example.co.uk and example.org.uk), the holder of the oldest registered domain of the string would have senior rights.

Also, the price will be about £5.

This still places a burden on existing domainname registrants, especially those with large portfolios. But it may strengthen the overall value of the .uk namespace, which will help name investors that own .uk domain.

I don’t own any .uk domains, so I’m curious to hear from those that will be affected if this proposal becomes reality.

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