Domain Name News

I got an inquiry for my domain name D-D.com which I bought in 2013 on a Namejet auction. The inquiry came from someone in Spain that has a double last name separated by a hyphen …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), provided an update on New gTLD developments in China, US and Europe. On the operational front, the Company confirmed that 24 of MMX’s top-level domains have now been successfully …

Radix announced today that it recently acquired exclusive rights for the new domain extension, .FUN. The transfer was finalized last month. .FUN’s main competition will probably be Uniregistry’s .LOL extension. Radix now owns 9 strings …

Mike Mann shared on Facebook my article about the bad landrush phase that .Blog domains had last week and also shared his views on the New gTLDs in general: Read my lips gTLDs are D*E*A*D, …

Public Interest Registry – the non-profit operator of the .org, .ngo, and .ong domains as well as four Internationalized Domain Names (.орг, .संगठन, .机构 and .组织机 构) – today announced that it will enter into …

Nominet today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2016. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is …

Dietmar Stefitz, the Domaining Europe founder and event organizer, announced today that the 9th Domaining Europe Conference will take place from the 14th to 16th of May in Berlin. The event venue is going to …

.Blog domains completed landrush on Wednesday and the registry announced the results and they don’t look too good. The landrush resulted in 1000+ registered domains the 7 days of the landrush. Just 36 of these …

These are the top domain name articles from October 2016. I believe this was one of the best months for this blog and all articles below deserve a read. The most popular articles were about financial …

Parking Crew, the popular domain name parking company, has been under DDOS Attack since last Friday. They managed to successfully filter the attack pretty quickly and parked pages were only affected for a couple of …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of October 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. There are no common keywords in the .com …

I am dropping my remaining .XXX domain names and getting out of the extension. I registered about 30 .XXX domain names back in 2011 when the extension first launched. Most were 1 word domains related …

One of Efty‘s much-requested feature was to add custom pages which allow for unique content. Efty has now made the first step with this by adding a custom “About Us” page under Settings > Efty Market that …

Rightside announced today financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016 reporting a net loss of $4.4 million for the 3rd quarter. Business Highlights Rightside has 40 gTLDs in its portfolio and ended …