Domain Name News

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 …

Pheenix announced that it is increasing the price of domain name backorders and is also introducing .xyz backorders. “Due to price increases by both ICANN and registries, beginning August 1, 2016, pricing for Gold backorders …

Rand Fishkin, of MOZ, posted a video on “How to Choose a Domain Name That Works For SEO And Branding”. Here are Rand’s 8 rules: Make it brandable. Make it pronounceable. Make it as short …

At the 2016 eShow Brasil conference in Sao Paolo Brazil, .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass gave this presentation on “How New Domain Names Are A Marketer’s Best Friend.” (Thanks to Andres Varona of AM Global for …

Uniregistry released today the much anticipated Android app. The app lets you register, renew, manage and transfer domains in your Uniregistry account using your mobile phone. The app is now available on Google Play. Here …

Nintendo, the owner of the newly released game Pokemon Go, bought the domain name Pokemon.Club. The domain name was bought from the .Club registry as the domain name was reserved by the registry due to …

SnapNames announced today that the minimum price for a domain name backorder will increase from $69.00 to $79.00 USD. This rate increase will also affect deleting domain name backorders placed at NameJet.com. This is the …

The Domain Name Association (DNA) created an infographic giving “10 Ways To Use Domain Names To Enhance Your Brand”. “What’s in a name? As a marketer you know that names are your opportunity to make …

.CO, part of Neustar, Inc., had its first domain name auction in China. The auction, which was held exclusively on Chinese auction platform 22.cn, offered 19 two-letter domains like CY.co and XN.co. The auction concluded today July …