A tweet sent today by @DomainSherpa said that Michael Cyger is retiring from publishing in the domain name industry. “I’m retiring from publishing in the domain name industry,” says @MichaelCyger @DomainSherpa http://www.domainsherpa.com/farewell  #domains” The tweet …

Namejet released it’s August 2017 domain name auctions report that includes mostly 1 and 2 word .com domains and a few numerics. Namejet sold 65 (92 domains in July) domains in August for a total …

A comment left by a reader claims that a small but important detail in the bankruptcy law could have helped Grandma Heidi Powell keep her rightfully owned domain name. Is it possible that Heidi Powell …

Rick Schwartz, the Domain King, was on the latest episode of Startup podcast. The episode is called The Domain King (Season 6, Episode 1) and it is about “Why the dot com still reigns supreme.”. …

The latest update on the HeidiPowell.com domain name case is that the motion for a stay by Grandma Heidi was denied on the August 30. “I’m sad to report that the same judge who decided …

NameSilo, a U.S.-based domain registrar, announced that it has surpassed 1 million active domains registered by its customers following 7 consecutive years of growth. This puts NameSilo in the top 1% (top 30 registrars) of …

.vip, .club, .shop and .ltd are the first 4 domain name extensions to receive approval by the Beijing Communications Administration. .VIP is an MMX extenstion, .Shop is managed by GMO Registry, Inc. and .ltd is …

Efty added today an additional 22 categories, bringing the total number of categories and matching For-Sale landing pages to 46. When Efty launched it had a list of categories users could assign to their domains and to …

Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, debuted the findings of its first Internet 101 Survey, a study testing basic internet knowledge among U.S. internet users of all ages …

I don’t know much about the Harvey hurricane flooding but I do know that Eric Lyon needs our help. He has probably lost his house, vehicles and everything else including furniture, electronics, etc. There is …

Whoisology is adding a few new features apart from continuing to update its domain name whois data. Whoisology now has over a billion domain name whois records. The biggest addition is the long-requested bulk whois …

Owner information has stopped appearing on .io, .ac and .sh domain name whois and people have started complaining about this change. It all started in April 2017 when Afilias won the contract to run the …

Last week I wrote how Efty made it’s domain name selling landing pages a lot faster. Efty sent out a tweet today saying that August was an all time high month for Efty in terms of …

Tucows’s reseller platform OpenSRS will no longer be able to provide .au domain name registrations to any reseller that is based in China. This follows a formal direction Tucows was given by auDA, the registry …