Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry, today released its 2018 Annual Report. So while PIR continues with this PR crap below we don’t forget that ICANN removed all price-caps from .org domains and the …
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Neustar to operate .us extension until 2029
Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced it awarded to Neustar a contract to continue operating the .us registry for 10 more years. The announcement says that Neustar will continue to operate the .us …
Read More »Mike Mann files lawsuit to appeal UDRP decision
Mike Mann has filed a lawsuit to appeal the UDRP decision regarding the LakesGas.com domain name. The UDRP complaint was filed at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in April and the decision came in …
Read More »shopping.uk sells for 50,000 Euro (plus 22 more .uk sales)
The domain name shopping.uk sold on Friday for 50,000 Euro or $55,308 USD. The domain was sold in an auction at domainorder.com and the buyer is redbrain.com. There have been a few more notable .uk …
Read More »Google will discontinue the AdSense Android and iOS apps
Google is planning some changes on how publishers access their AdSense accounts. More than a third of the users access AdSense from mobile devices. With this in mind, Google has reviewed its mobile strategy and …
Read More »MMX launches adult domain name trademark protection service
MMX announced its new service “for trademark holders seeking to protect their brand identity across its adult portfolio of TLDs from the increasing trend of domain name abuse including website phishing and malware.” Branded AdultBlock …
Read More »Sedo selling warehoused domains on the “Expiring Domains” platform
In the past few months Sedo started auctioning expired domain names and also created a dedicated expiry auction page: expiringdomains.sedo.com. Sedo is auctioning expired domains from the German registrar 1&1 IONOS. Sedo and 1&1 IONOS …
Read More »What was the purchase price of the domain Dan.com?
Read here how much Undeveloped paid to purchase their new domain name and brand Dan.com. A few days back I asked Reza Sardeha, CEO of DAN.COM, 10 questions. But I also asked him a bonus question that …
Read More »41,459 .uk domains registered in stage one of the release
Stage one of the unclaimed .uk domains release ended and 1,793,701 domains were made available to the public via participating registrars. In the first week, 41,459 of those .uk domains were registered. That is 2.26% …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: Libra, Psychedelic, Snafu, Casino, Bet
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More »XYZ makes idiotic statement on Twitter
The XYZ registry, one of the worst New gTLD registries, made a tweet yesterday that is clearly false and frankly embarrassing to the whole domain name industry. The tweet said: “You can get a shorter, …
Read More »Domain name Viajes.es sells for €147.000
The domain name Viajes.es sold for €147.000 that is about $165,000 USD. The domain name was registered in 2005. The buyer is not yet known. The sale took place at Sedo. .ES is the ccTLD …
Read More »Top 10 articles from the 1st half of 2019 (ICANN, GoDaddy, Mike Mann, Rick Schwartz, Voice)
These are the top 10 domain name articles from the first half of 2019. It has been a crazy year in the domain name industry with some great sales but with ICANN screwing all domain …
Read More »DAN listens and makes a change on its domain landing pages
After Undeveloped changed its name and branding to DAN on June 19 a few people complained about the new domain name landing pages displaying DAN.com. Up until then domain names for sale at Undeveloped had …
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