Domain Name News

DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC PINK: DGTW) today announced that it has acquired more than 11,000 .CITY domains for use with an international rollout of the DigitalTown’s flagship Smart City Platform and the Global Smart City Network. …

Joe Styler, GoDaddy’s Aftermarket Product Manager, issued a warning on NamePros about a new phishing email targeting owners of valuable domain names registered with GoDaddy. These kind of phishing emails are not uncommon so people …

Donuts Inc., the largest New gTLD registry, today publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s entire registry of new generic top-level domains (New gTLDs) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash …

EURid, the .eu and .ею domain name registry, issued a statement today regarding the United Kingdom referendum results and .eu domains owned by UK residents. On 23 June 2016 voters in the UK referendum expressed …

The Public Interest Registry and the Nonprofit Tech for Good published the report of a research project: “2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report”. This is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how …

Tucows filed an Ontario lawsuit to halt the transfer of the domain name Hayter.com and to stop the UDRP proceedings. Tucows, an ICANN accredited registrar, is also the owner of a big portfolio of domain …

eNom, an ICANN accredited registrar that is part of Rightside, released its new website and logo today as well as a new blog. Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside, announced the new site: Fresh new @enom …

Undeveloped.com is having a New gTLD domain name auction. This is the second auction for the Undeveloped.com platform after the premium .com and ccTLD auction that ended last week. The auction runs from the 20th June to …

The municipality of Samos, a Greek island in the Aegean sea, paid 3,159 Euro for a 5-minute job assignment. The price included Greek 24% VAT tax. Specifically they paid Andreas Skalkos (e-samos) to forward 3 …

On the 14th of June Undeveloped’s 1st premium domain name auction ended. The auction included short domains like UPD.com and premium product specific domains like RedWine.com but unfortunately most of these premium domains did not met the …

CentralNic will relaunch the TLD .CX on June 22 through its new Registry Gateway Service. .CX is the ccTLD for Christmas Island. The ccTLD is rebranded as the domain for good Customer Xperience. The TLD …

CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC), announced that it has contracted with UK Creative Ideas Limited (“UKCI”), the rights holder for the new Top-Level Domain (“TLD”) .ART, to be its exclusive backend registry service provider. .ART will …

Radix announced that their new gTLD .STORE made more than $1 million before close of general availability day 1, earlier this week. This figure includes revenue earned from premium names, sunrise and regural registration fees. …

101Domain is rolling out new services and features while approaching the one-year anniversary since being acquired by Afilias plc in September 2015. First, they have updated their terms & conditions and are now fully operational …