Domain Name News

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE:NSR), today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by a private investment group led by Golden Gate Capital in a transaction valued at approximately $2.9 billion, including …

CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC), announced today that it has entered into its largest ever premium domain name sale agreement under which it will receive consideration of US$ 4.5 million. The press release does not mention the …

ICANN published the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System December 2016 report. This latest report of the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) acts as a follow-on to the reports published in June 2016 and December 2015. The …

GMO Registry, Inc. announced that .shop, the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over two months since .shop opened for business on September 26, 2016. On June 30, …

Art Malkov published an article called “Here’s How to Make it As a Startup in New York” on tech.co. Here are a few quotes from the article: Over the last five years, New York has …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of November 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. There are a lot of common keywords in …

A new book just came out by Andrei Polgar called “Wealth Management 2.0”. Andrei Polgar is a domain name investor and a blogger at DomainingTips.com. It took Andrei 3 years to write and with the …

On December 13*, at 10:00 am Eastern Time .CLUB will be releasing approximately 9,300 NEW premium names into the registrar channel in the tiered premium offerings. These names include names that were previously registered by …

Mike Mann said on Facebook that the average premium domain sale prices have doubled in the last 18 months. Appraised values have doubled as well. Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers more …

Luis Carlos Sarmiento, the wealthiest man in Colombia with a net worth of USD$11.6 billion as of 2016, won a UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) complaint today for the domain name luiscarlossarmiento.com. Complainants were two of his …

Namejet released it’s November 2016 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 3 letter .com and a lot of numeric domains (especially 5N). Namejet sold 164 (158 domains in October) domains in November …

The new ICANN policy on domain WHOIS changes is active and the worst thing is that not even registrars and their support team know enough about the changes yet. I wrote about the emails I …

GoDaddy published today a new eBook, The Significant Seven, to help people learn about seven online essentials that will boost their web presence into the upper echelons of the internet. The Significant Seven tackles 7 …

.KIWI’s managing director Angus Richardson replied to accusations of inflating .kiwi domain name registration numbers and using fear tactics to force people to register .kiwi domains. This is the reply of a PR person and …