.XYZ entered general availability yesterday and after the first few hours it had reached 14,924 registrations. It now ranks 15th among New gTLDs, just below .directory. That is hardly the performance expected from the NEXT …

Yesterday I made a post about a couple of Moniker problems I had. The post was triggered by an email invoice I got for a domain name renewal. I had let the domain expire of …

There were 22 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .rentals, .vacations, .flights, .cruises and .villas  for a total of about $50,000 or more including the premium domains. The .dance auction at …

I tried to warn everybody on Thursday that the new Moniker will be a huge problem but you can never prepare enough for a disaster. Today my problems began. Even though I had renew any …

In the past week (May 19 to May 25), 591 (491 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,1 million ($1m last week). Only 189 (200 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 5-19-14 to 5-25-14 were $1.618.097 (last week $2.280.511). A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller …

Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, made a video reply to a question submitted at Google Webmaster Help. The question was: What impact would two links on a page pointing to the …

The Domain Name Industry is a growing network that is immense in scope, made up of organizations, businesses and individuals involved in the business of domain names. In an effort to explain the subject, ICANN …

I tried visiting today one of my domains that is parked at DomainNameSales.com and found that it is not displaying any ads or links of categories in my case. I got a message saying: “Failed …

NameJet partnered with Rightside Registry to offer 20 .DANCE premium domain names like music.dance and 1.dance. 13 of the 20 domains were sold in the auction. The domain name pole.dance got the highest bid with …

Moniker announced major updates that are coming on Monday, June 2nd, 2014. I don’t know about you but when I hear about a new system update and major updates I fear for the worst. So I …

.Ninja had a good 1st day yesterday as it entered general availability.The Rightside New gTLD reached 5,199 registrations after a just a few hours. That includes sunrise and landrush registrations. .Guru had 12,435 registrations after …

The SEX.xxx domain, one of the top-rated adult domains on the Internet, has been acquired by Barron Innovations as part of a groundbreaking $5 million, multi-year deal with ICM Registry (“ICM”). The $5 million deal …

Architelos signed a NameSentry (automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services) referral agreement with Verisign. Architelos will provide NameSentry at a discounted rate to new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry operators that use Verisign as …