Domain Name News

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 …

.Blog domain names are currently in the Landrush phase but it seems that thousands of domains have been reserved by the registry including ALL 1, 2 and 3 character domain names. Per ICANN (Internet Corporation …

Flippa Domains’ third quarter of 2016 report features 300 domains that were sold for a total of $518,410. Chapter.com was the top selling domain name at $40,000. SMSMarketing.com got the second place spot with $20,000. …

Google announced that it has began experimenting with mobile-first indexing to make results more useful as most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. If you have a responsive website or a dynamic …

Looking to buy the domain name fashion.blog, music.blog or news.blog? You are out of luck… The .blog domain name registry has registered for itself and its partners about 90 .blog domains. 27 of the domains correspond …

Namejet released it’s October 2016 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 3L and 4L and numeric domains. The list also includes some of the .nyc domains from the 1st auction the City …

The .Blog registry (owned by WordPress) launched the Landrush Phase for purchasing .blog web addresses. This phase marks the first time non-trademark owners can apply for early access to a .blog domain name. That means anyone …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016. GoDaddy reported that overall revenue grew by 15% while domains revenue of $236.6 million, is up 10.0% year over year. 1 …

2016 marked ten years since EURid opened general registration of the .eu TLD on a first come – first served basis. In June of 2016, EURid welcomed a new member to the .eu family, that …