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 …

DomainTools sent out an email today informing its account holders that a high volume user email harvesting campaign targeted its system and correctly matched a few hundred current or historic DomainTools account email addresses. This …

I visited a domain name owned by NameFind LLC, a GoDaddy company, to get a price for it. At the top it read: “The domain animalrights.org is for sale. To purchase, call Afternic.com at +1 …

The owner of the New gTLD domain name howtoget.money got an offer for $2,000 through Godaddy “Domain Buy Service”. The New gTLD owner rejected the offer. He later got email from a GD domain broker …

.US and Neustar are hosting a Town Hall meeting this month for the United States’ country code Top-Level Domain, .US. The virtual .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall Meeting will take place on October 26, from …

The domain name Convoy.com sold for $135,000 to a startup that is backed by Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff. The buyer used a brand protection agency and a generic Gmail email address for the negotiations. …

The National Arbitration Forum (recently rebranded as just the “Forum”) sent out a newsletter today promoting the UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) for New gTLD domain names. The email subject was “Is the UDRP Applicable …

The .Blog registry announced that since beginning the Sunrise Phase on August 18th, more than 1,000 .blog domain sites have been activated. The number is higher than the expectations of the registry and is “signaling …

Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from September. Mike had a busy month both selling and buying domain names. Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers …

The .Club registry announced today the August and September premium domain name sales. .Club sold 52 names totaling $32,103.52 in August. Things picked up in September led by an auction of 30 names on Sedo …

Google is creating a new domain name registry back-end system called Nomulus. A registry back-end system performs the critical functions that are necessary for a domain name registry to fulfill its technical obligations in running …

GGRG Brokerage Consulting published the first edition of the Liquid Domains Quarterly Overview partnering with Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com. This first report is focused on the 2nd quarter of 2016 and presents key …

ICANN has published findings of a study exploring whether the New gTLD Program has affected competition in the domain name marketplace. The study shows that the New gTLD Program has had no apparent effect on legacy gTLD registration …