Domain Name News

UK’s largest domain name forum Acorn Domains is under new ownership over recent months. The new ownership brings renewed marketing efforts, new ideas and improvements to the forum.  Acorn Domains now has a .com domain …

.VIP broke several New gTLD domain registration records since its launch yesterday. It has been the fasted registered New Extension for the first 3 hours since the General Availability since the NEW gTLD program started …

Domaining Europe and YUMI.com, the host of World Domain Conference, have come to an agreement to cooperate immediately and in the future. Domaining Europe 2016 conference starts in less than 2 weeks and will be held from …

Watch My Domains is a software company producing domain name management and monitoring tools. They have a large number of software products related to domain names and domain name management. Their products fall into three …

Canon Inc. announced that the Company has gone live with a renewed global website employing a domain name that departs from the traditional location-specific “www.canon.com” to the new “global.canon” proprietary domain name. The launch marks …

.VIP domain names launch today, 17 May 2016, at 16:00 UTC. The time for general availability is 11:00 EST and 24:00 for Beijing, China. .VIP is a Minds + Machines new domain extension and this is …

Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com has created a new landing page for its vast portfolio of over 250,000 domain names. DomainMarket.com doesn’t use PPC ads for its domain names. All 250,000 domain names redirect to a a …

Domaining Europe 2016 starts in less than 2 weeks in The Hague, Netherlands. The event lasts from Sunday 29th to Tuesday 31st of May. Domaining Europe 2016 is just after “TheNextWeb” conference (25-27 May) in …

Göran Marby, the new ICANN President and CEO, gave an interview to Brad White, ICANN director of communications. Göran Marby was the Director General at the Swedish Post & Telecom Agency in Stockholm, Sweden before …

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, paid over 19 million dollars for the .blog registry and will offer the .blog domain extensions through its subsidiary, Knock Knock, WHOIS There (KKWT), starting later this year. The …

ChopChop Domains published a video interview with Daniel Zhang that has been running the Xinnet.com domain business unit for the last 10 years. Xinnet.com is a Chinese registrar in business for 23 years and is among …

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced that it secured the rights to oversee and operate the sale and registration of .blog domain names. WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that Automattic is …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME) announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016. Total revenue increased 9% to $55.1 million compared to $50.5 million of Q1 2015. Net loss for Q1 2016 was …

Nominet is making the zone files for all of the domains they manage available to members for the first time. But that is not all, as the zone file will contain only active domain names. …