Domain Name News

Auctions.nyc and the City of New York had their first auction of premium .NYC domains. The auction featuring 20 domain names ended today on Namejet and 19 out of 20 domains were sold for a …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2016. Verisign ended the third quarter with 144.1 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base. The final …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 66 KB] a proposed plan for implementing policy recommendations regarding Thick Whois. The plan requires gTLDs currently providing thin Whois services – .COM, .NET …

A website called PotatoParcel.com, that was sold on Flippa last year, will be featured on ABC’s Shark Tank this Friday. Potato Parcel is a quirky site where you can send anyone an anonymous (or not …

Some people really don’t have a clue as it comes to domain names. Not a clue! And they will probably need all the luck in the world to get the right domain for the right …

Uniregistry released over 3.5 million previously withheld domain names across 19 TLDs, including 1.2 million premium names. The 3,636,440 domains were released today at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC). Most of the Uniregistry …

I got an email from someone trying to sell me a similar domain name to one that I already own. The domain is not even remotely similar to mine but anyway… The domain was SO …

DomainTools sent out an email today informing its account holders that a high volume user email harvesting campaign targeted its system and correctly matched a few hundred current or historic DomainTools account email addresses. This …

I visited a domain name owned by NameFind LLC, a GoDaddy company, to get a price for it. At the top it read: “The domain animalrights.org is for sale. To purchase, call Afternic.com at +1 …

The owner of the New gTLD domain name howtoget.money got an offer for $2,000 through Godaddy “Domain Buy Service”. The New gTLD owner rejected the offer. He later got email from a GD domain broker …

.US and Neustar are hosting a Town Hall meeting this month for the United States’ country code Top-Level Domain, .US. The virtual .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall Meeting will take place on October 26, from …

The domain name Convoy.com sold for $135,000 to a startup that is backed by Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff. The buyer used a brand protection agency and a generic Gmail email address for the negotiations. …

The National Arbitration Forum (recently rebranded as just the “Forum”) sent out a newsletter today promoting the UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) for New gTLD domain names. The email subject was “Is the UDRP Applicable …

The .Blog registry announced that since beginning the Sunrise Phase on August 18th, more than 1,000 .blog domain sites have been activated. The number is higher than the expectations of the registry and is “signaling …