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. …
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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 …
Read More »Second level .au domain names are coming this year
Second level .au domain names – such as forexample.au – will soon be available in the .au country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) after the auDA board adopted the proposed Implementation Rules for the .au …
Read More »Internet grows to 351.8 million domain names in Q1 of 2019
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the first quarter of 2019 closed with 351.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.1 million domain name registrations, or 0.9 percent, compared …
Read More »No, we can not rename New gTLDs
New gTLDs are called New gTLDs. Period. This is the only way the industry can understand what we are talking about. All other people just calls everything “domains” or a few people call them “new …
Read More »UK registrars angry with Nominet
More than 15 UK registrars are angry with Nominet’s proposed .uk right of registration (ROR) release process planned for 1st July – 5th July 2019. Over 3 million remaining .uk rights are set to be …
Read More »Do you want more funding for your startup? Get a .com domain name!
People are looking for real numbers regarding domain names so here they are! This is proof based on real business numbers. Do you want more funding for your startup? Get a .com domain name! Simple …
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