Konstantinos Zournas, Author at OnlineDomain.com

New .COM & .NET Video Campaign by Verisign

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 …

Afilias To Raise $100 Million By Entering The London Stock Exchange

Afilias announced its intention to apply for admission of its issued and to be issued Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”) and to conduct a placing …

Daily Domain Sales (10-20-2014): BlueMix.com $14,500, PartyKing.dk 3,500 EUR

I really wish that Rick would start blogging again. Do you? Go Daddy and Sedo had a lot of 4-figure sales yesterday and 1 5-figure sale: BlueMix.com for $14,500. Click here to see domain sale …

.AU Report: 2.9 Million Domains, 6% Growth, 43% Of Domains Are Under 2 Years Old

A new report on .au, the Australian ccTLD, reveals that almost 50 percent of all .au domain names are between nine and 15 characters in length, while New South Wales claims the honour of the …

4 Months Without Rick

No, Rick is not dead. He very much alive but he has stopped blogging and I am a bit sad because of this. It is almost 4 months that Rick Schwartz wrote his last post …

83% Of Lawyers Not Eager To Get .Lawyer Or .Attorney Domains

Here are the results of the latest Law Times online poll. According to the poll, the majority of respondents aren’t too eager to register a .lawyer or a .attorney domain name for their websites. 83% …

WHOIS Accuracy Rates Improving Under 2013 RAA But At What Cost?

WHOIS Accuracy Rates are slowly improving, as reflected in the latest Preliminary Findings paper [PDF, 668 KB] published by the National Opinion Research Council (NORC) at the University of Chicago. These findings suggest that there …

GOV.UK Gets 8 Million Unique Visitors Per Week And Reaches 1 Billion Visits In Total

The United Kingdom government’s GOV.UK website gets just over eight million visits every week on average the Cabinet Office announced. Launched 2 years ago, GOV.UK brings together government services and information online. As the first …

Daily Domain Sales (10-19-2014): iWire.com $7,777, the-dating-directory.net $4,275

Apparently “i” domains are still selling even if Apple, the “i” king, is slowly moving away from “i” products. The domain name DerrickRose.com sold for $834 yesterday at Go Daddy auctions. Derrick Rose is one …

Bluehost Runs Breast Cancer Campaign At Pink.Host (And Will Also Get Blue.Host)

Bluehost is turning Pink this entire month. October is the month for breast cancer awareness and Bluehost is running a special campaign for it on an alternate URL www.pink.host, pink being the color of solidarity …

New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Realtor, .Army, .Navy, .Airforce, .Vet, .Healthcare, .OOO

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and no string enters the landrush phase. Rightside enters general availability for 4 of its extensions on the 22nd …

ICANN Will Release 2-Character New gTLD Domain Names

During ICANN 51 in Los Angeles on the 16th of October the ICANN Board decided the introduction of 2-character domain names in the New gTLD namespace. ICANN decided that the proposed registry service for the …

.SE Auctions 349 Blocked Domains (no.se, tv.se, pr.se, it.se, usa.se)

Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation (.SE) will conduct multiple auctions to release more of the .se domain names that are not currently possible to register. The domain names are two-character country codes, such as no.se, tv.se, …