Konstantinos Zournas, Author at OnlineDomain.com

45% Of All New gTLD Domain Names Are Registered At Go Daddy (New gTLD Registrar Market Share)

Almost 45% of all New gTLD domain names are registered with Go Daddy, eNom comes second with 8,65%, Network Solutions is third with 8,44%, United Domains is 4th with 7,89% and Name.com is 5th with …

The 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) – What You Need to Know

Last summer, ICANN announced the 2013 RAA, which was created to foster transparency and accountability in the domain name industry. The RAA is the contract registrars sign with ICANN that outlines the rules they agree …

Applicant of .secure New gTLD acquires .trust from Deutsche Post

NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, or ‘the Group’), the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, has acquired the right to operate the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .trust from Deutsche Post, for an undisclosed …

Pharmaceutical companies filing a lot of UDRP complaints

I was going through UDRP complaint fillings and noticed that a lot of pharmaceutical companies are quite active in filing complaints lately. There was always a company that was going stronger at one time or …

Swiss domain names .ch to be registered via a registrar (and not the SWITCH registry)

The public consultation on the new Ordinance on Internet Domains (OID) runs from 12th February 2014 to 17th April 2014. The Ordinance stipulates, among other things, that end customers will no longer be able to …

Afternic adds support for first 14 New TLDs

This week Afternic added support for the first 14 New TLDs, including .GURU, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GALLERY, .HOLDINGS, .BIKE, and .SINGLES. Afternic customers can now buy and sell domains with these extensions on the one of …

Go Daddy just registered 2 trademark New gTLD domain names in my account

Go Daddy just registered 2 trademark domain names in my name it found in my account shopping cart. I repeat: I didn’t buy these 2 domains. Go Daddy bought them and charged my credit card …

Sedo sells 793 domains worth $1.7 million: nxt.org 10,000 Euro, Lottery.gr 9,800 Euro (Feb 3 to Feb 9)

In the past week (Feb 3 to Feb 9), 793 (728 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 million ($1.1 last week). Only 264 (260 last week) domains from …

30.5% of TLDs are business websites – 27.8% a holding page – 0.9% pornography

EURid, the .eu registry, made a report called “Website usage trends among top-level domains 2014″. 37.8% of .eu websites are used for business purposes, compared with an average of 30.5% of websites under gTLDs like …

IAB.com sold for $75,000 (to Google and Yahoo) and donated to the Interactive Advertising Bureau

The domain name IAB.com was donated to the Interactive Advertising Bureau that was using iab.net as it’s official website up until now. Leading digital advertising and technology companies BrightRoll, Collective, Google, MediaMath, Rubicon Project, sovrn …