ICANN published the final Initial Evaluation (IE) New gTLD results. Out of the initial 1930 New gTLD applications 1783 applications passed the Initial Evaluation. Of course some of the applications were withdrawn before reaching the Initial …

In the past week (May 5 to May 11), 473 (466 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,4 million ($1,2m last week). Only 195 (189 last week) domains from …

Whoisology, offered by Domain Agents, is a free whois tool. Whoisology is a general interest / research tool that is based on whois data. You search whois records using any field you want such as …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 5-5-14 to 5-11-14 were $1.814.616 (last week $1.878.819). A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller …

New gTLD applications for .amazon and related IDNs in Japanese and Chinese filed by Amazon EU S.à r.l. should not proceed. ICANN announced this last night after the GAC advised the ICANN Board in its …

Public Interest Registry (PIR) is the registry that will operate the New gTLD strings .ngo and .ong. The .ngo and .ong domains and the NGO Portal will launch in October 2014. Here’s a quick “How …

It has been a long time since I did a Domain Name Q&A post for the simple reason that I don’t have time for it. There is constantly something to write about and many times …

The Bing Webmaster Blog did a short post about “5 Steps To Improving Search Rankings“. Eric Enge interviewed Duane Forrester that is the Sr. Product Manager at Bing. Here are the 5 steps to improve your …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names and other Internet services, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Summary Financial …

There were 24 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .expert and .works for a total of about $86,600 or more depending on the premium domains. Go Daddy/Afternic sold Room.Guru for $6450 …

The domain name Diet.Expert was sold for about $7,500 on the 2nd day of Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) pricing. This price includes a $3,000 day 2 EAP fee and the registration fee that for …

.Club had one of the best first days of all New gTLDs up until now. Just a few hours after general availability it had 25,781 registrations including sunrise and landrush domains. But this success was …

I got email from Pool.com today stating that Pool has started offering pre-orders for New gTLD domain names that enter the general availability phase: By popular request, Pool.com is now using its domain acquisition engine …

The Sedo .CO.UK domain name auction ended yesterday and it was not pretty. Only 7 domain names were sold for a total of 5982 GBP + $109 (a total of about $10,174). The domains in …