Nominet released the 2018 annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). The total number of domain names that were subject to DRS Complaints in 2018 was 763, which represents …
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Owners of .eu domain names in United Kingdom may keep their domains after BREXIT
On 18 July 2019, the European Commission published an updated notice to stakeholders about the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (BREXIT) and EU rules on .eu domain names. The notice highlights that at the time …
Read More ».Org 2018 registry report
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 …
Read More »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 »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 »1,835,159 unclaimed .uk domain names to be released
1,835,159 unclaimed .uk domain names will be released in the next few days. UK domain registrants with a third-level domain (.co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .plc.uk or .ltd.uk) had until 06:00 BST (UTC+1) on Tuesday, 25th …
Read More »ICANN renewed the .ORG Registry Agreement with no price caps
ICANN renewed the .ORG Registry Agreement with no price caps while the .org registry operator with the funnier name (PIR) Public Interest Registry issued the statement below. Name is funny because the only thing that …
Read More »Afilias to acquire .GLOBAL domain extension
Afilias today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Dot Global Domain Registry Limited in Dublin, the registry operator for the .GLOBAL Top Level Domain. With nearly 50,000 names under management, .GLOBAL is one of …
Read More ».Club reduces prices on premium domain names
Twice a year .Club is making adjustments to their premium name inventory available at registrars around the world and they just released their latest update as noted on their blog. In order to make certain …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: coupons, mushroom, shroom, abuse, apple
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of May 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More »A few details on the $335,000 Free.Games sale
The sale of the domain name Free.Games was reported on Wednesday. The domain was sold by WebQuest for $335,000. The buyer is not yet known as the domain name is under whois privacy and nameservers …
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