Verisign said today that it “promises” not to raise .com and .net prices this year, although ICANN has not approved (yet?) the .com price increases. (7% in each of the next 4 years) Verisign said …

The Office of the New York Attorney General (NYAG) is investigating the registration and use of coronavirus-related domains for the purposes of deceptive advertising, phishing schemes and malware dissemination. These activities may violate a number …

The Coronavirus pandemic has given rise to a cottage industry of scam artists looking to prey on people’s fears. Fake websites selling coronavirus masks are scamming organizations out of millions. An investigation by Escrow.com has …

Since the beginning of the year, search interest in COVID-19 has continued to climb around the world. Right now the disease is the largest topic people are looking for globally, surpassing even some of the …

I have put up a contact form on a lot of my domains and I get quite a few odd requests on a variety of subjects instead of valid domain name inquiries. Most of the …

Mike Mann reported selling 8 domain names in February for a total of $286,564. Prices started at $2,288 and went up to $169,888. Mike Mann sold 7 .com domains and 1 .org domain. The average …

CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced an update on the FY2019 performance of its latest acquisition, Team Internet AG, Germany (“Team Internet”). As reported by Matomy Media Group Ltd. (“Matomy Media”) as part of their …

PIR agrees to give ICANN an extension for deciding whether to accept or deny the transfer of the .org extension. Meanwhile “No Ethos Capital” tries to strengthen the PIC and .ORG Stewardship Council. See the …

No Ethos Capital announces additional steps trying to strengthen the Public Interest Commitment (PIC) and .ORG Stewardship Council. All these additional steps is just a smokescreen trying to persuade some people that don’t yet know …

There has been a lot of talk about whether it is ethical to purchase coronavirus related domains. Well, it all depends on what kind of domains you buy AND what you do with them. I …

Namesilo will be launching a new domain back-ordering platform called Catch.Club. Catch.Club, that has not yet launch, claims to be solving the problem of using dozens of registrar platforms for backordering domains? No more multiple …

As we are in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic the next couple of months will be difficult for everyone worldwide. It will be especially difficult for people that don’t have a steady income and/or …

Starting Wednesday, 25 March 2020, the .BIZ registry (Neustar) will be launching their premium domains. These are previously registry reserved names that will be available for registration in 11 premium tiers through domain name registrars. …

Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the fourth quarter of 2019 closed with 362.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.4 …