Cybersquatting disputes relating to new gTLDs accounted for 10.5% of WIPO’s UDRP caseload in 2015, which covered a total of 4,364 domain names.  Among these names, .XYZ, .CLUB and .EMAIL were the most common new …

Mike Mann made a Facebook post talking about a new trend he is seeing lately: two word .Com domains sales seem to increase. This is not something new. 2-word domains have always been selling but …

.NYC Domain Meetup had a big event this past Thursday, March 10, 2016. The event was titled “Changing Digital Landscape of 2016 NYC“, organized by Art Malkov and featured speakers from Link.nyc and the mayor’s …

Tucows Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the international wholesale domain reseller channel of Melbourne IT Limited. The acquisition will add 250 resellers and approximately 1.6 million domains under …

A panel of experts discussed the results of the New gTLD program at the WorldHostingDays 2016 (WHD.GLOBAL) in Rust, Germany. Most of the experts agreed that registration numbers aren’t everything and that projects by large …

A New gTLD domain auction at WorldHostingDays (WHD.global) generated EUR 21,200. 34 new gTLD domains were sold during the auction on the eve of the WorldHostingDays in Europa Park, Rust. Hosting.club was the top-seller, changing …

Afternic announced today that united-domains AG has joined Afternic DLS. united-domains will now offer a much broader choice of premium domain names to their customers and will have the benefit of Afternic’s Fast Transfer technology. …

For months or actually maybe for years I had been ignoring emails from China. These were either all written in Chinese or trying to buy my best domains for peanuts or most of the times …

Last week DN.com announced by sending an email that it will be closing for 3-4 days and their website went offline. Yesterday they announced by sending another email that they had some government issues and …

Last week OnlineDomain.com reported that DN.com had shut down. DN.com initially said that after a few days the website would reopen. Today a new email message was sent that more or less says that DN.com …

.Club domain name sales continued to be solid in February with nearly $90k in sales. The registrar channel proved strong in February for .CLUB premium name sales. 17 different registrars and Sedo contributed to a …

DN.com sent an email to all its customers announcing some “entity” changes and some kind of business development. Accordingly, the DN.com website is temporary closed with the duration of 1-3 business days. During which period, …

GoDaddy had a Google hangout yesterday titled: “How to use Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to Monetize Domain Names”. During this presentation, Michael Stricker showed how Google is ranking the new Top-Level Domains. Are they among …

Starting today Google is moving all its blogs to a new domain to help people recognize when they’re reading an official blog from Google. The new domain name is GoogleBlog.com. These changes will roll out …