“What Box Holdings“, “Plan Bee LLC” and “Thomas A. Brackey II” have been using fake trademarks to buy New gTLD domain names in sunrise. I was wondering why Donuts was not doing anything to fight …

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced the start of the first “sunrise” phase of the roll-out of the .nyc web address, beginning a five-month countdown towards the full-scale public launch in October 2014. The new …

In the past week (Apr 21 to Apr 27), 444 (513 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,1 million ($1m last week). Only 195 (153 last week) domains from …

.CO did an article on the Huffington Post called “How to Choose the Perfect Domain Name For Your Business”. The article says that “Having the right domain name helps you establish your credibility, makes it …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-21-14 to 4-27-14 were $1.778.547. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

Dynadot, one of my favorite registrars, published an article about Domain Registration Do’s and Don’ts. “Finding the perfect domain name for your company website is just as important as determining its business name. Whether you’re …

This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .agency, .bargains, .boutique, .cheap and .zone. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $35,000 …

Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX), that owns Archeo Domains, announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. Marchex sold $1.9 million worth of domains through Archeo. “As the first quarter demonstrates, advertisers are increasingly …

Dot London, the new domain for London, launched marking the first time that businesses, organisations and individuals can apply for a web address ending in .london as an alternative to .com or .co.uk. There is …

Eric Ludwick from What Box?, the company that has registered hundreds of domain names in the New gTLD sunrises using over 30 fake trademarks, is on the board of directors of the Domain Name Association …

The Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS) that is the system that provides all the New gTLD zone files is down for the past 36 hours. ICANN send an email yesterday informing CZDS users that there …

Sedo announced today the sale of the domain name autos.de for 120,000 Euro or $166,367 USD. The domain was bought by DAY Investments GmbH from Austria. The company owns domains such as charts.com, gutscheine.com, routenplaner.com, …

I noticed today that Sedo, that is using the Google feed, has started displaying banner ads on the domain names that are parked there. Instead of always getting a list of text ads you now …

I got an email today from Moniker announcing some updates that are coming soon. They promise a transformation with a new website that “better caters to your needs and new tools to manage and grow …