Domain Name News

My video interview from NamesCon 2016 has finally arrived. Just in ime for NamesCon 2017. Angela St. Julien interviewed Theo Develegas and myself, Konstantinos Zournas. Theo is the owner of DomainGang and Acroplex.com. DomainGang is …

These are my 2017 domain name predictions and advice. Hover.com asked me and 10 other people from the domain name industry to weigh in on what the big trends in domain names will be. You …

Pheenix announced that a new pricing for domain backorders will be implemented in a few days, due to rising costs. Beginning January 15, 2017, pricing for Gold backorders will increase to $38.99 and Super Savers …

The pretty well know by now spam/scam email by DomainCop has transformed and is now pretending to be a company with a familiar name: ICANN Inc. ICANN is “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …

Brannan’s domain newsletter, operated by David Clements, announced some makes major changes for 2017. The big change is that David has decided to drop the “daily” from the Brannans newsletter. This means he’ll be passing back …

These are the top domain name articles from 2016. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions. It was a busy year for OnlineDomain.com with 577 posts published, 260,000+ views from 117,000+ visitors and …

Frank Schilling may have stopped blogging since 2014 but he hasn’t stopped giving domain name advice online. Not only has he stopped blogging but his blog at SevenMile.com is actually broken and does not even …

I got an inquiry the day after Christmas about one of my .com domains: WhosDead.com. I guess this inquiry had something to do with the whole 2016 music death curse that was affirmed by George …

.Shop and .Site just received a big holiday gift from the Chinese government today! The 2 new extensions got government approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology today and join .Club, .Vip and .XYZ …

In September, Donuts announced that for a limited time, they would make Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) Plus available as an enhancement to their legacy service. DPML Plus was to be available until December 31, …

This is a post where you can share your New gTLD domain name sales but with a twist! For every sale of yours you post you can also post another domain name for sale. (e.g. …

I have noticed a small trend in 2016 where people are trying to auction off and practically unload New gTLD domains with expensive renewals. It was easier to notice in short domains namely 1-letter domains. …

More than 1,000 domains worth more than $1 million USD were successfully sold during three .AT short domain name auctions in November. The domains were auctioned by the .AT registry at Sedo. Bids in the …

It is almost 3 years after New gTLDs came out and more than 18 months after the first .brands came out, how have brands made the move to the new extensions? How is this innovation …