Domain Name News

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 …

Here is an idea that Mike Mann had and shared on his Facebook profile. He wants portfolios of domains and a 75% commission in exchange of renewal costs, staff, overhead or servers, no risk of …

Namejet knows about auction shill bidding on their platform. Period. They knew about it now and they knew about it in the past. There has always been some shill bidding on all auction platforms. Yes, of …

Ename, a China based registrar, has suspended new domain name registration for .org, .asia, .cc and .tv extensions. The registrar will continue to support renewals, transfers and other functions related to these extensions. These 4 …

GoDaddy published a very interesting video on YouTube on things like using video with a limited budget, the good and bad about live video, using free content to convert website visitors to subscribers, and more. GoDaddy’s …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the first quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 330.6 …

MERGE! is an industry event that is an independent show designed to host and provide a shared access pass to groups of related events – all about a common focus: Using Domain Names, Digital Branding, …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) and Donuts Inc. today announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave Rightside and Donuts notice on July 15, 2017 of ICANN’s express consent to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement (the “Transactions”) among …

Google has moved the domain name at the top of search results. I think the change was made in the past 2-3 weeks. If the webpage in the results is not the homepage of the …