Domain Name News

It has been 5 years since I started this blog in a hot summer in 2012. It has been a fun ride with ups and downs. Here are my all time stats: 1,127,824 views 481,966 visitors …

New gTLDs have lost 2.3 million domain names in the past 8 weeks. There are now about 22 million new gtld domain registrations. According to Namestat.org there have been 4.3 million domain names removed from …

Radix published its premium domains report for the 1st half of 2017. Here is the report: Radix crosses $1 MILLION in premium name revenue. 1,217,240 In Premium Revenue 727 Premium Domains Registered & Renewed New Premium …

Pheenix announced that it will be increasing pricing for Gold backorders to $59.99 for com/net. The change will be effective on July 15, 2017. There will also be increases for other domain extensions. This is the …

Everybody knows that people are using the GoDaddy expired domain auctions as an appraisal tool and as a bait tool. They let they GoDaddy registered domain names expire, the domain name is auctioned at GoDaddy …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are 2 common keyword in the .com and .net …

Flippa has decided to implement a $1 domain classified listing fee, which will take place starting today. With the launch of its new listing builder, Flippa has made a few changes to how our platform operates, …

DNDisputes.com, a new website about UDRP domain name disputes has launched. DNDisputes.com is a free website listing all domain name disputes filled in WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and offers some impressive statistics. Although all the data …

Mike Mann is sharing his domain sales all the time but he doesn’t say the venue these domain names are sold. It appears that many of his sales are occurring on the GoDaddy platform. When I …

.CLUB sold $2.7 million of domain names in Q2 2017 mostly attributed to China registrars with strong pinyin and number sales. .Club sold a total of 666 premium names sold in Q2 via auctions, through the registrar channel …

Mike Mann made a short video for the GDS (Global Domain Summit) 2017 conference in China and posted it on Facebook and on YouTube on what appears to be his new channel. Among other things he said that …

These are the top domain name articles from June 2017. June was a good month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views. Also more than 350 comments were made by readers. The most popular articles were about .XYZ take …

Mike Mann reported selling 13 domain names in June for a total of $174,471. Mike had 8 5-figure sales and another 2 sales very close to $10k. 12 of the sold domains were .com but there was …

The McDonald’s Corporation sent 2 letters asking The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to terminate the .mcdonalds and .mcd registries by November 2nd 2017. The company only ever registered 1 domain name in each extension. The …