This summer, Donuts released for registration 1.369 million previously reserved domain names in 144 gTLDs. The domains were initially reserved because of collisions. The company made these names available in batches each week between June …
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.NYC Domain Meetup – Summary & Photos
.NYC Domain Meetup was held on Wednesday, September 16, 2015. The meetup celebrated the 1st year anniversary of the rise of the .NYC. Art Mal, owner and organizer of the .NYC Domain Meetup, gave a …
Read More »Chinese Domaining: The Lucky Number Eight (8)
TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, is releasing the fourth installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. TLD Registry presented the world’s first, …
Read More »Sedo Is At The DMEXCO 2015 Online Marketing Conference
Sedo is at dmexco in Cologne, Germany. Today, September 16, and tomorrow Sedo will be at booth D011 in hall 6. DMEXCO is the Digital Marketing Exposition and Conference. This is an event that attracts thousands of …
Read More »Facebook Just Used A .XYZ Domain – Not A Very Good One…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced on its Facebook page the next Townhall Q&A. He used a .xyz domain name, and not a very good one, for the streaming video: hacktv.xyz. Here is the link Mark used:
Read More ».Online Puts Ads On Bus Shelters & Trucks in San Francisco
Radix registry has put .Online ads on over 35 bus shelters in San Francisco. They also have a fun digital truck doing the rounds in San Francisco with .tech and .online videos. The truck will …
Read More ».NYC Domain Meetup On Wednesday, September 16, 2015
There is a new .NYC Domain Meetup coming up tomorrow Wednesday, September 16, 2015. The meetup celebrates the 1st year anniversary of the rise of the .NYC. This meetup’s title is “1st Anniversary [The Rise …
Read More »ICANN: There are no underlying infrastructure obstacles to the accessibility of any TLDs
ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers …
Read More »Kids.us Is (Once Again) Officially Suspended For Good!
On August 17, 2015 the Stakeholder Council met. The Council carefully considered the report on the kids.us domain and unanimously recommended that the requirement be suspended for the life of the Neustar .us contract. Back …
Read More »Bidding For 8.xyz Is At $53,358 With 6 Hours To Go At The DOMAINfest Auction
2015 Domainfest Asia may have ended but bidding at the domain name auction is going strong! The Right of the Dot auction for DOMAINfest, powered by 4.CN, is running September 2-10, 2015 – before and after …
Read More »Donuts Releases Over 200,000 Two Character Domain Names
Donuts is releasing today, September 9, 207,300 two character domain names. (LL ,LN, NL, NN) The two character domains include letter-letter, letter-number, number-letter and number-number combinations (for example, “A1” or “US” or “CO”). Please note that not …
Read More »I Am Dropping My Only .London Domain Name: Planet.London
I am dropping my only .london domain name. The domain name is planet.london and anyone that wants it can have it. First come, first served. But I wouldn’t be so fast to jump into this …
Read More »Flippa Weekly Domain Sales: VYC.com $22,000, Asset.co $5,000
Highest domain name sale this week at Flippa was VYC.com that sold for $22,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 3 domains of this week’s list. There were 11 domains that were sold by Buy-It-Now and just …
Read More ».CLUB August Premium Name Sales – Over $1M In Sales From Launch
With the continued expansion of the .Club registrar distribution for tiered premium names, August showed an increase in total premium name revenue over the prior month. This report will also note completed SnapNames auctions during …
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