George Kirikos has been arguing about the New gTLD sunrise success with the ICANN community and the GNSO Working Group. In my opinion his views are 100% correct and his suggested procedure could save all …

John Berryhill sent out a few tweets on August 11, 2017 warning people about tmview.com being a spoofing webpage. The intellectual property attorney believes that the fake web page is spoofing TMview that is the …

The DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report (Q2/2017) has been published. The report covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs) with additional focus on the European …

Namejet updated its terms of use on August 10, 2017. The new terms include a new section called “Shill Bidding Policy”. Now the Namejet terms clearly state that shill bidding is not permitted in its …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of July 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are no common keyword in the .com …

ICANN announced the publication of the report, “Statistical Analysis of DNS Abuse in gTLDs” [PDF, 2.23 MB]. The study aims to compare rates of these activities between new and legacy gTLDs, as well as employs …

Donuts successfully completed the acquisition of Rightside and that is good news for registrars and their end customers with Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) programs. From now on companies interested in brand protection will not …

Donuts Inc., today announced that it has closed a $110 million credit facility led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of SVB Financial Group), and with participation from Cadence Bank, N.A., Comerica Bank, Pacific Western Bank, and Umpqua Bank.  This debt …

Rick Schwartz sent out a tweet yesterday saying: “I NEVER buy a #domain asking question: Is this $1k domain worth $2k? I ask a completely different question & get different result!!” Of course I immediately …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Revenue went up compared to Q2 2016 after the Enom acquisition from …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. “GoDaddy successfully delivered another solid quarter with continued organic customer, revenue and cash flow growth,” said GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving. …

Today, MMX launched the Community Priority Phase for the new .boston top level domain. This phase gives local nonprofit organizations and government entities a chance to apply for their organization’s .boston domain name by registering …

Namejet released it’s July 2017 domain name auctions report that includes mostly 2, 3 and 4 character domains and fewer numerics. Namejet sold 92 (129 domains in June) domains in July for a total of …

These are the top domain name articles from July 2017. July was a good month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views. Also more than 350 comments were made by readers. OnlineDomain.com celebrated its 5 year anniversary …