Domain Name News

Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from September. Mike had a busy month both selling and buying domain names. Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers …

The .Club registry announced today the August and September premium domain name sales. .Club sold 52 names totaling $32,103.52 in August. Things picked up in September led by an auction of 30 names on Sedo …

Google is creating a new domain name registry back-end system called Nomulus. A registry back-end system performs the critical functions that are necessary for a domain name registry to fulfill its technical obligations in running …

GGRG Brokerage Consulting published the first edition of the Liquid Domains Quarterly Overview partnering with Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com. This first report is focused on the 2nd quarter of 2016 and presents key …

ICANN has published findings of a study exploring whether the New gTLD Program has affected competition in the domain name marketplace. The study shows that the New gTLD Program has had no apparent effect on legacy gTLD registration …

.DOCTOR domain names open for general availability October 26. Donuts is the registry for the extension. Donuts has encountered some questions about the availability of this name—specifically, whether it will be open for registrations to …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the “.law” top-level domain, announced that since launching a year ago, .law has registered more than 6,000 first-choice and premium .law domain names. The registry also …

Efty launched its improved marketplace feature back in June and now 4 months later over 430 unique domain name marketplaces are powered by it. Efty announced the first batch of the new updates coming to the …

.LA registry announced that more than 1000 new premium names have been released including We.LA, Great.LA and Beer.LA. These dictionary words, business categories, first and last names and other internet brands, are available to shop …

The preliminary agenda for NamesCon 2017 was just published. This year you can register and pick up your badge on Saturday, January 21st, before the conference starts on Sunday. Network Lane makes a comeback after …

Since the first New gTLDs started launching in early 2014 and since two Rightside-owned gTLDs, .dance and .democrat, went live in May of 2014, the question many domain-industry watchers were asking is how popular new …

Epik Holdings, Inc. today announced it has integrated Bitcoin as a supported method for payment and disbursement. Effective immediately, customers may pay for domain registrations, marketplace purchases, escrow, SSL certificates, web development, hosting and other …

The Brands and Domains event has been announced and will take place in Valencia, Spain on December 1st. Attendees are also invited to attend for free TheName.SHOW on December 2nd. The Name.Show event is targeted …

GoDaddy released the 2nd TV commercial of the campaign running until the 2016 US presidential election on November 8. The campaign is co-sponsored by Verisign, the .COM registry. The two different TV commercials were produced …