Donuts, a New gTLD registry with more than 50 New gTLDs already released, is performing scheduled maintenance today. The time frame for the maintenance is as follows: August 25, 2014, 21 :00 – 22:30 GMT …
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New gTLD Weekly Review: .Hamburg, .HIV, .Black, .Credit, .Gratis, .CreditCard, .Claims
This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 7 New gTLDs enter a landrush phase. .HIV also enters general availability on the 26th of …
Read More »Sedo sells 502 domains for $1.1 million: dtp.com $35k, stpl.com $18k, experse.com $15k
In the past week (August 11 to August 17), 502 (527 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 million ($1.6m last week). Only 149 (158 last week) domains from …
Read More »1st World Domain Day Conference Starts Today
The first World Domain Day conference starts this Sunday the 24th August at the Avasa Hotel, High Tech City, Hyderbad, India. WDD (World Domain Day) is an international event for the promotion of domain names …
Read More »Latest Flippa Sales: FileBackup.com $11,300, CeremonyMusic.com (+10 More Domains) $2,100
Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name FileBackup.com that sold for $11,300 after 3700 views and 79 bids. It was the buyer’s second attempt to sell the domain at Flippa and it …
Read More »ICANN Asking For Comments On 2-Character Domain Names for .SOHU, .IMMO, .SAARLAND, .CLUB
ICANN has opened a comment period to obtain community input on the proposed amendments to the Registry Agreements of several registry operators: .SOHU, .IMMO, .SAARLAND, .CLUB. The proposals requess the release of all two-character ASCII …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .Bio 2679, .Haus 1164, .Cash 1036, .Tax 1014, .Investments 877
Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On Monday the 18th of August .Career entered General Availability and got 2,838 domain name registrations in the zone files after …
Read More »Nominet To Begin Emailing .CO.UK Domain Owners About .UK
From 15 September, Nominet will begin emailing registrants with rights to a short .uk domain under the .uk 5-year reservation mechanism. This step is part of a wider programme of communication and outreach committed to as …
Read More »Gay.Vegas Launches As Part Of the Founders Program
Some of the early adopters of the .Vegas domain are beginning to come online now that .Vegas is out of the sunrise trademark phase of the roll out. One of the newest sites to launch …
Read More »Namejet Refuses To Refund Backorder Made Last Year (Just Won A Domain I Dropped)
I couple of days ago I got an email from Namejet that I won a domain with the tile “NameJet Order Confirmation” and I immediately knew there was something wrong as I had not backordered …
Read More »South Florida Business Journal Features .Club
The South Florida Business Journal posted an article yesterday with the title “Fort Lauderdale-based domain .club is one of top-selling web newcomers”. The Fort Lauderdale-based domain .club is leading a pack of newly established alternatives …
Read More »Michael Gilmour Hosts A Webinar Discussing A Domain Industry Association
Michael Gilmour, owner of ParkLogic, send out an invitation and encourages everyone to attend his upcoming webinar today the 21st of August discussing a Domain Industry Association. Michael has made 5 blog posts lately about …
Read More »24 More New gTLDs Have Been Delegated: .diet, .hosting, .property, .gifts, .restaurant, .wales
ICANN has announced that 24 more New gTLDs have been delegated for a total of 370 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the latest 24 new gTLDs: .diet, .hosting, .property, …
Read More ».REALTOR Launches Offering 500,000 Free Domains To It’s Members
The National Association of Realtors announced that the new .REALTOR top-level domain will be available October 23, 2014 to members of NAR and the Canadian Real Estate Association. The top-level domain will be made available …
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