Domain Name News

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 …

NameJet and Select Corp, a Detroit-area digital investment firm, have teamed up in an exclusive partnership to auction approximately 100 domains daily from a variety of extensions including traditional .COMs, premium new gTLDs, and trending …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of December 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. Not a single common keyword in the .com …

The Lincoln Electric Company tried to grab the domain name WearTech.com , using a 2013 trademark and a UDRP complaint, from EXISTech Corporation that registered the domain name and has been using it since 1996. …

Rightside wants to make it easier for people to buy its New gTLD Platinum domain name inventory so today it launched two new programs that will expand access to high-value premium domains across all 40 …

I got a complaint, from someone I believe is trustworthy, about “domain broker” Andy Kelly and a domain name transaction that started just before Christmas. Trustworthy is exactly the opposite of what I think when …

WorldHostingDays announced the creation of a Content Advisory Board; the board is made up of cloud industry experts and a couple of domain name savvy members, with a goal of ensuring excellence in conference content …

ParkingCrew announced yet another feature addition to be implemented as of early 2017. ParkingCrew will offer option to sell domains with a Buy Now price using Escrow.com. ParkingCrew said that they have worked to bring …

Sedo announced some of the highlighted domain name sales from the past year. At $375,000 USD, Broker.com had the highest price tag among domains sold through Sedo in 2016. Short domains were as usual popular; …

Namejet released it’s December 2016 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 3 letter .com and .net domains and some numerics (especially 5N). Namejet sold 122 (164 domains in November) domains in December …