Domain Name News

These are the top domain name articles from July 2017. July was a good month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views. Also more than 350 comments were made by readers. OnlineDomain.com celebrated its 5 year anniversary …

Mike Mann talked on Facebook how he goes about repricing 150,000 of his domain names. Prices for most of his domains are going down but prices for the best ones are going way up: “In …

Last Thursday (27 July), Dynadot hosted its first San Francisco Domain Meetup. It was held at Triple Voodoo Brewery in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco. Dynadot was excited to host domain investors, startups, and …

Bruce Breger wrote on Facebook that the winning bidder of Emojis.com on Namejet contacted him 10 minutes after the auction ended. The winner told Bruce that he got carried away in his bidding and asked …

Andrew Rosener replied to a comment left by Mike Mann on Facebook revealing some details about his domain name investing business. Mike Mann said: “I took over the premium .Com industry again while everyone was …

EFF and Public Knowledge released a whitepaper titled Which Internet registries offer the best protection for domain owners? Top-level domains are the letters after the dot, like .com, .uk, .biz, or .mobi. In the Internet’s …

I got a tip from a reader about an auction that GoDaddy is running for the domain name killchildren.com. I visited GoDaddy auctions only to find more domains like this: All 4 domains (.com, .net, …

HTC, a mobile phone manufacturer, sent a letter asking The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to terminate the .HTC registry and extension. HTC Corporation is a Taiwanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Xindian District, …

VeriSign, Inc.(NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the second quarter of 2017. Verisign ended Q2 2017 with 144.3 million .com and .net domain name registrations. Verisign announced an increase in the annual fee for a …

The .CLUB team hit the road hard as usual and traveled once again to China. Their first stop was the beautiful city of Xiamen for the Global Domain Summit (GDS). .CLUB CMO, Jeff Sass was …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) and Donuts Inc. (“Donuts”) today announced that DTS Sub Inc. (“Purchaser”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Donuts, has successfully completed its tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of …

HEXONET unveiled its next generation web Control Panel Platform. The initial release of the Control Panel showcases the underlying architecture with subsequent releases adding advanced intelligence and features tailor-made for direct clients, resellers, and registrar …

Last week a Chinese registrar (eName) announced that they suspended new domain name registrations for .org, .asia, .cc and .tv extensions because of a new regulation of the Chinese government. This was the first we …

Earlier this morning, WordPress and the .blog registry announced they reached 100,000 registered domain names. They reached this milestone when the domain kitchenmagic.blog was registered. It has been eight months ago that .blog domains became …