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Purpose (Brief): ICANN is posting a proposed revision to the process that allows existing registry operators to request removal of cross-ownership restrictions for the gTLDs that they operate. The revision will allow existing gTLD registries to own or control registrars that sell domain names in their own, existing registry.

Ahha.com domain name sold for $112,000 through Sedo,topped Domain Name Journal weekly sales list of reported domain names for the week ending Sunday,May 13.

Moniker and Snapnames,announced recently that the domain name FreeSex.com is now up for sale.FreeSex.com will be available for online bids starting June 21 and ending July 19,2012 in the Moniker and Snapnames Premium International & ccTLD Domain Name Auction.

ICANN is immediately seeking expressions of interest for the 2012-2013 Nominating Committee (NomCom) Chair-Elect.

ICANN is issuing today a Request for Proposal [PDF, 183 KB] to identify a provider capable of providing an open source reference implementation of a Domain Name RESTful Whois server.

DENIC,the company behind .de extension ,announced that it has won the second place in the Database Award 2012 of the computer magazine Computerwoche and its partner Oracle.

India is calling for a United Nations-run body to take over the responsibilities of ICANN, with discussions likely to take place in Geneva later this week, according to a report in The Hindu.

Yahoo has recently filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum,asserting legal rights over the domain name UpYahoo.com.