Domain Name News

Afnic has published a complete overview of the global domain market in 2016 in a study based on ICANN statistics, information from registries, specialized web sites and its own research. The overall domain name market growth …

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry, has officially terminated the Systemic Copyright Alternative Dispute Resolution Policy (SCADR). PIR determined that the SCADR is not ripe for implementation. The intention of the SCADR was to create …

Mike Mann announced on Facebook that he has removed Buy-It-Now (BIN) prices from 150,000 .com domains on his marketplace. “I removed the prices from 150,000 premium .Com domains which is lowering sales significantly, but generating …

Mike Mann reported selling 13 domain names in May for a total of $171,652. Mike had 4 5-figure sales. Highest reported sale was WashingtonJournal.com that sold for $75,000. The average reported domain sales price was $13,204. …

I had this feeling that I was getting fewer domain name inquiries lately. While I was deciding whether to renew or drop a batch of New gTLDs I noticed that one of my domains, reverse.engineering, had …

Namejet released it’s May 2017 domain name auctions report that includes 1 and 2 word .coms, some 3-letter and a lot of 4-letter .com and some numerics. Namejet sold 112 (136 domains in April) domains …

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

Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) and Donuts Inc., today announced that the two companies have entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which Donuts will acquire Rightside for $10.60 per …

On June 14th at 15:00 UTC, .Club will be releasing 4,500 NEW premium domain names into their tiered premium inventory at the registrars. These are predominantly names that were previously registry reserved and have never been available through the …

GoDaddy is sponsoring Steve Harvey’s Funderdome, a new TV show that in on ABC, Sundays 9|8c. Shawn Pfunder of GoDaddy interviews Grace inventor of the Soarigami armrest extender that appeared on Funderdome. They discuss how …

These are the top domain name articles from May 2017. May was a good month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views. Also almost 375 comments were made by readers. The most popular articles were about comparing Bitcoin with .xyz, dropping …

The only thing I know for sure here is that I won a domain name in a GoDaddy expired auction 10 days ago. It was a .us expired domain name that I won on the …

The eName platform launched its first and the largest .CLUB auction yet. The auction started today and ends in 1 week. A total of 62 names are in the auction, comprised of 32 names from …

Rick Schwartz summarized his domain name strategy in just a few tweets. Rick Schwartz can still find a lot of valuable domain names selling for $500 or $700 and never answers inquiries from domainers. Here …