Domain Name News

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. …

Rightside, the registry of new extensions like .news and .ninja among others, posted a new video on YouTube concentrating on niche domains that are dedicated to unique occasions: dates, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, kids, birthdays, new …

.Club had the first ever dedicated auction for a Western domain extension on Alibaba’s Ali Auction platform (TaoBao) in China. Fifteen other registrars and some direct registry sales contributed to the total .club premium domain …

There is a new domain name appraisal scam out and it is better than the last one I saw. It is a combined domain valuation and a “trademark infringement varification ” scam. The scammer first …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of April 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” is out of the list after 2 …

See what you missed from the top domain name articles in April 2016. April 2016 was another great month at OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors. More than 250 comments were submitted by readers. …

Tribune Publishing Company (NYSE:TPUB) bought the domain name LA.com for $1.2 million in February 2016. The sale was revealed in a quarterly report (FORM 10-Q) that was filed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by …