Domain Name News

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) today announced the following information pertaining to the .web top-level domain (TLD): “The Company entered into an agreement with Nu Dot Co LLC wherein the Company provided funds for Nu Dot Co’s …

On 27 July 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program auction to resolve contention for .WEB and .WEBS. Auction serves as the method of last resort for …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2016. Business Highlights Verisign Registry Services added 0.78 million net new names during the second quarter, ending with 143.2 million .com and …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that the Group’s unaudited interim accounts for the six months ended 30 June 2016 will be published on 20 September 2016. During the first half of 2016 transformational …

ICANN announced the publication of the Draft Report of the Independent Review of the Trademark Clearinghouse. Specific considerations related to the matching criteria, Trademark Claims service and Sunrise period are assessed in the review, conducted by …

DropCatch is expanding its reach on backorders to include .ORG domain names. In addition to .COM, .NET, .CC, and .TV, you may now place regular backorders on dropping .ORG domain names through DropCatch.com. Backorders for …

There were 149 New gTLD domain name sales added in Sold.Domains database this week. Sold.Domains lists all public New gTLD sales and has a search function to find sales by extension or keyword. 141 of …

Starting with August 29, 2016 nic.at releases one and two character domains under the TLD .at. Until now the minimum length of a domain name under the top-level domain .at has been three characters. This …

I just cancelled my DomainTools account. Price is going up for me from $49,95 to $99 per month today the 21st of July. This date is not the same for all customers. Some might have …

Escrow.com announced that from July 2016, an additional three new agents will be joining the Customer Service team to assist customers in completing their transactions online. The Escrow.com team has grown rapidly in the first …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that approximately 12 million domain names were added to the internet in the first quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 326.4 million …

There were a lot of .io domains sold in June at Flippa, just like last month. There are other ccTLDs in the sales report as well but of course sales are dominated by .com. Highest …

Rightside announced some of the highlights of the first half of 2016 regarding premium domain name sales. They also announced “The Power of Two” campaign for September that will be the release of previously unavailable two-letter …

The domain name PokemonGo.net was auctioned on Saturday, July 16, for $20,950. The domain PokemonGo.net was originally registered in 2008, it expired in 2011 and re-registered. Then this July it expired and was again available …