ICANN plans to release an authorization process by 1 December that no longer requires Registry operators to reserve all number/letter (2a), letter/number (a2), or number/number (22) New gTLD domain names at the second-level. This category …

I hate it when people go MIA when you accept their offer. Today the U.S. Federal Court decided that Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) can not be seized and Moniker Announced a New Chief Operating …

A U.S. federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment. Claimants filed writs of attachment to …

Go Daddy published an article called “Take your next great idea (or not) to the domain aftermarket”. The article talks about what you can do with the domain names you have and don’t need. There …

At month-end September, the contribution of “traditional” generic TLDs (.com, .biz, .info, etc.) to net market growth in 2014 was 45% against 75% in March 2014. The October 2014 edition of the Afnic Industry Report …

Moniker announced today that Mr. John McLaughlin will assume responsibility as the new Chief Operating Officer. Mr McLaughlin’s first statement might infuriate a lot of Moniker’s clients: “The new management platform represents an industry leading …

Internet.bs is releasing a list of 9.5 million .COM names which are currently registered under other TLD spaces yet remain unregistered under .COM. That’s a lot of list! “There is so much potential amongst these …

Waiting for good news. I don’t know if you have hear but Sedo Added A Minimum Sales Commission Fee To Parked Domains and Radix, Tucows & Namecheap Won Auction For .Online Domains For More Than …

Verisign, the registry operator for .com, .net and other domain names, is releasing a series of short, humorous videos this month promoting .com and .net domain names You can see the first 2 videos, Cake in …

Following a 90-day public consultation period, ICANN is implementing a solution to allow new gTLD registries to release names from their Second-level Domain (SLD) Block Lists while complying with all Rights Protection Mechanism requirements. ICANN …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company has gained, in aggregate, cash of approximately $8.4 million through withdrawing its applications on .book, .cloud, .dog, .site, …

Donuts and its New Domain Names were showcased on the television show Cycle America, filmed on-location in September at Interbike in Las Vegas. The Annual Interbike International Bicycle Exposition is “where the bicycle industry gathers …

Rightside Group, Ltd. announced it is partnering with Bandzoogle, a company whose technology platform is used by over 20,000 bands and musicians to power their websites and online stores. Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level …

It was a very bad day today. Glad it is over. It was a close call… Moniker introduced some new security features but I can’t find them in my account and it is too late …