Domain Name News

Donuts Inc. today announced the appointment of Bruce Jaffe as chief executive officer. Paul Stahura, Donuts’ co-founder and current CEO, will continue to serve in a full-time role as executive chair of Donuts’ board of …

The .NET domain name registration and renewal wholesale price goes up on February 1st, 2017. Verisign, the .net registry, announced the increase in the annual fee for a .net domain name registration from $7.46 to …

I have had enough of these bullies. I think it is time we start suing people that threaten to steal our domain names. This is plain extortion: “you sell for $500 or I take your …

Andy Brier of NameStat.org and Name Metrics Ltd made a blog post that lists 947 one character new gTLD domains that were once registered but are no longer in the zone. They are now either …

Uniregistry just published a new video on YouTube titled “Make Money Buying and Selling Domain Names with Uniregistry“. The video’s description reads: “At Uniregistry, you can register, buy, and sell domain names with ease. Whether …

Auctions.nyc and the City of New York will have their 2nd auction of premium .NYC domains. This time 24 fashion related domain names like Fashion.nyc, Shop.nyc and Makeup.nyc will be auctioned at Snapnames.com. The .NYC …

Are you going to NamesCon 2017? Then you should download the new mobile app. I will be in Las Vegas and I am already using the brand new app. The NamesCon mobile app is powered …

NamesCon 2017 is just around the corner, kicking off on the 22nd of January, 2017 at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. On January 23rd, 3PM – 6PM PST | 6PM – 9PM EST | …

These are the top domain name articles from December 2016. The most popular articles were Mike Mann earnings, the new ICANN transfer policy, New gTLD domain name sales, Frank Schilling’s advice and other subjects. December 2016 …

Some things I just don’t understand. The Tropicana hotel, the NamesCon 2017 venue, send an email informing past and future guests that they have changed their email address: Happy New Year, Effective immediately, emails to …

This is a lesson for everyone that tries to steal a domain name from its rightful owner. A lesson for all people, companies, trademark holders (or not) and their lawyers that attempt a reverse domain …

The domain name Sex.city sold at Sedo and is the 1st confirmed New gTLD sale of 2017. The domain was bought for $2,150 and the new owner is (surprise, surprise) from Amsterdam. When I saw …

I don’t usually drop any .com domain names unless there is a good reason to do it. Whether that is a legal reason, a registration mistake (registering a typo), some domains with specific lifespan (e.g. …

Here is what domains attorney Charles Gucciardo bought with more than $500,000. Attorney Charles Gucciardo of The Gucciardo Law Firm, PLLC discussed his interest in new TLDs and motivation for registering dozens of domains in …