2016 marked ten years since EURid opened general registration of the .eu TLD on a first come – first served basis. In June of 2016, EURid welcomed a new member to the .eu family, that …

I am so angry with GoDaddy. I am mostly angry with myself because I thought Godaddy had changed and become a serious and trustworthy company. I thought (by talking to a few hard working people …

I sold a New gTLD domain after a long dry spell. We agreed on the price after the buyer got back to me after a month and made a new offer. He offered 3 times …

Flippa shared the top 10 searched keywords for October 2016 on Flippa Domains. Trending keywords are always interesting to see. This is what domain name buyers are searching for on Flippa. This month “Game” was …

Pheenix announced some new features and changes that have just been completed. It announced a new partnership with Escrow.com, a new domain seller platform and new pricing for domain name backorders. Escrow.com and Pheenix.com are …

On October 1, 2016, Donuts announced upcoming price changes to its legacy DPML service and launched DPML Plus, a new and enhanced service for blocking trademarked terms, available for a limited time. In the original …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.74 MB] a draft report regarding the Continuous Data-Driven Analysis of Root Server System Stability (CDAR). The study examines the technical impact of the …

Auctions.nyc and the City of New York had their first auction of premium .NYC domains. The auction featuring 20 domain names ended today on Namejet and 19 out of 20 domains were sold for a …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2016. Verisign ended the third quarter with 144.1 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base. The final …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 66 KB] a proposed plan for implementing policy recommendations regarding Thick Whois. The plan requires gTLDs currently providing thin Whois services – .COM, .NET …

A website called PotatoParcel.com, that was sold on Flippa last year, will be featured on ABC’s Shark Tank this Friday. Potato Parcel is a quirky site where you can send anyone an anonymous (or not …

Some people really don’t have a clue as it comes to domain names. Not a clue! And they will probably need all the luck in the world to get the right domain for the right …

Uniregistry released over 3.5 million previously withheld domain names across 19 TLDs, including 1.2 million premium names. The 3,636,440 domains were released today at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC). Most of the Uniregistry …

I got an email from someone trying to sell me a similar domain name to one that I already own. The domain is not even remotely similar to mine but anyway… The domain was SO …