Nominet announced their next .uk Registrar Conference that will take place on Wednesday 5th March at the Royal College of General Practitioners in London. Nominet and its registrars are all adapting to a changing domain …

DomainNameSales (DNS) announced the new Godaddy/DomainTools Integration Option on the 7th of October 2013. These new integrations allowed DNS customers to list the names in their DomainNameSales.com account on a make-offer basis  at Godaddy.com and …

ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from Pacnames Ltd to Net-Chinese Co., Ltd. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of Pacnames Ltd. The affected gTLD …

Marchex’s company Archeo just announced that it has added “Buy Now” functionality to the ArcheoDomains.com marketplace. Archeo, that owns more than 200,000 premium domain names, enabled “Buy Now” for 30,000 of its domains and all …

AdSense just added a feature that gives all publishers the option to view website and domain name performance reports in a variety of currencies. The currency can be any other than the payment currency. This …

Fox Entertainment Group, owner of the FX TV channel, has bought many FXX domain names in the past year. Fox launched a sister channel to the FX channel called FXX. The new channel got a …

Residents, companies and organisations based in the European Economic Area (EEA) countries of Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway will also be eligible to register domain names under the .eu top-level domain from 8 January 2014. This …

I am sure that most people didn’t miss me or even noticed that I was not writing on my blog. I took some time off. Yeah. A lot of time off. Some because I wanted …

Fadi Chehadé and Steve Crocker officially opened the new Washington DC office located at 801 17th Street Northwest during a ribbon cutting ceremony on June 13. This office serves as ICANN’s North American Engagement Center. …

The ASO Address Council (AC) is pleased to announce that Mr Kuo Wei Wu has been re-elected to fill Seat 10 on the ICANN Board for a three-year term. Mr Wu’s term will start at the end of the …

ICANN has launched a Strategic Planning Portal. Community input is a vital element of ICANN and the new Portal further integrates the community’s feedback in shaping the future direction of ICANN and it’s work. This new website will allow interested individuals and organizations from around …

As HEXONET continues with the introduction of interesting new gTLD applicants, this week they wanted to highlight dotBerlin (.BERLIN). HEXONET had the opportunity to speak with Ms. Katrin Ohlmer at dotBerlin recently, which is considered …

The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applications is now …

The domain name JenniferAniston.com was returned toJennifer Aniston’s PR company PMK-HBH after being in a “Pending Renewal or Deletion” state for almost a year. The domain name, registered with Network Solutions, expired in July 2012 while owned by PMK-HBH Public Relations, a PRcompany based in Beverly Hills. The domain then entered …