The .nz registry has started offering shorter .nz (New Zealand) ccTLD domain names. From yesterday 1pm, 30 September 2014, ‘second level’ domains like the .co in ‘.co.nz’ and the .org in ‘.org.nz’ became optional. You’ll …

Go Daddy has been using different homepages for different countries and different languages for quite some time now. So I thought about going to all homepages and checking what domain name extensions Go Daddy is …

The 10th anniversary T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show will feature the Opening Cocktail Party, the networking event that launched an industry back in 2004 to the Masquerade Ball and dinner to the Industry Awards Ceremony, special guest speakers …

Today, the first .cymru and .wales websites will go live when Wales’ First Minister and the National Assembly’s Presiding Officer officially switch over the first tranche of websites to their new internet domains, marking a …

Last week I wrote about the latest email scam that is targeting domain name owners. Domain name owners receive an email with their details from whois data and a domain name that may or may not …

Not much to talk about today. I have been pretty busy on a new project and I sold another domain that is not in English and the buyer is from Europe. One domain on Friday …

DomainNameSales.com issued an announcement to inform users of upcoming changes between now and Q1 2015. Frank Schilling has had more than 12 million in sales up to now in 2014. With the completion of Uniregistry …

The Huffington Post did an article today called “When Hackers Steal A Web Address, Few Owners Ever Get It Back”. The article mentions the theft of MLA.com and the popular blog DomainGang.com: Domain theft has …

This week 3 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another one New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 1 enters the landrush phase. .BAYERN is launching tomorrow the 30th of September. Donuts enters EAP General Availability …

Forbes did an article called “How Will The New Dot.Tickets Domain Impact The Way People Buy Tickets Online?” Here are some main points from the article and my opinion at the bottom:

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Tasks.com that was sold for $130,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 7 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

Check out the Sedo Great Domains auction results where 907.com sold for 54,000 EUR plus 7 other sales. The .London priority domain auctions have arrived and are starting in 2 weeks. Only problem is that …

In the past week 591 (543 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1m last week). Only 201 (154 last week) domains from the 591 were reported by Sedo. The …

LoanRanger.com sold for $2,500 at Go Daddy. I couldn’t stop laughing for a minute… lol The domain NoPrivacy.com sold at Flippa for $1,436. The seller was Eric Borgos. That was a good deal for the …