Norid (operator of the .no ccTLD) has initiated a public hearing on whether private individuals should be able to register domain names directly within .no in addition to registrations within the priv.no category domain. Everyone is invited to give …

Donuts enters general availability for the following new gTLDs today: .BIKE .CLOTHING .GURU .HOLDINGS .PLUMBING .SINGLES .VENTURES. The Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) is designed for registrants who want to secure relevant, memorable domain names …

Naoki Hiroshima, made a post on Medium.com about how he lost his @N twitter username because of PayPal and GoDaddy. His “How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username” article is “A story of how PayPal …

Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the web presence business of Directi, which operates India’s leading domain registration business. The acquisition of Directi includes B2B …

*UDRP Panelist Gabriela Kennedy is also working for a law firm and often submits UDRP complaints on behalf of her customers. Her fellow Panelists decide on her cases.* The UDRP complaint for the domain names …

Above.com announced today the “Lead Generation Domain Auction” that will be its second Themed Auction in 2014. Bidding will be open to the public commencing March 17, 2014 and ending on April 16, 2014 at …

.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced that it has officially begun its Trademark Sunrise Period, signaling that brands and other trademark owners …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 1-20-14 to 1-26-14 were $1.770.240. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked …

CheapSSLs.com, a US-based SSL certificates store, got an upgrade and moved to a new domain: SSLs.com. The domain name SSLs.com was registered in 1997 by Sandy Springs Lawn Scapes, Inc., a landscaping company. CheapSSLs.com bought …

Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, made a video reply to a question submitted at Google Webmaster Help. The question was: “I have been in business for over 14 years with my …

Fadi Chehade, ICANN CEO, had a long Q&A at CNET in an article posted today on new gTLDs, trademark owners and ICANN. When asked if he hopes that all companies with trademarks will run their …

A few days back I posted my 4-figure domain name purchases in 2013. Of course, as a domain investor I always try to buy low and sell high. I don’t ever sell below my minimum …

ICANN announced that it’s WHOIS Primer is now live. ICANN also has a Global WHOIS Lookup Tool that is currently in development and will display the full registrant data for all gTLD domain names (whether …

Dave Evanson, senior sales and brokerage consultant for Sedo.com, announced today at Twitter that he co-brokered the sale of the domain name True.com for $350,000 with Negar Hajikhani, a sales executive at Sedo. The domain …