Domain Name News

Go Daddy had a blab hangout on the best practices people should follow to protect their domain names from theft. Domain security is a very important issue and this video covers some of the most …

CNNIC and Verisign signed on April 19 an agreement for the real name verification service of Verisign’s .COM and .NET top-level domains. Aiming to the healthy development of the Chinese domain name industry, CNNIC will provide …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results and details about .com and .net registrations and renewals for the first quarter of 2016. Business Highlights: Verisign Registry Services added 2.65 million net new names during …

Google introduced what they call AdSense’s next generation ads. Page-level ads is a family of ad formats that offer a new and innovative way to help you earn money from your mobile content. With Page-level …

Hexonet starts offering Donuts and Rightside backorders for dropping domain names on May 1, 2016. The backorder service will be catching about 400 New gTLDs in total. HEXONET will continue to add backordering for even …

Please beware of domain “broker” Andy Kelly, CEO of UpMarketDNs.com. He presents himself as a broker of several domain names that he has no authority to do so. He contacted me about a 1-word .com …

Flippa has added several options in its domain name search tool including an option to search for letter/number patterns in domains more easily. Flippa has added the following options to utilize when searching and browsing …

WordPress 4.5.1 was released today fixing 12 bugs. WordPress 4.5.1 is a maintenance release following WordPress 4.5 that has been downloaded about six million up until today. I warned people to wait a few days …

DomainTools is making a huge change in memberships and is increasing the price of personal accounts from $49 to $99 per month. In 60 days, DomainTools will begin sunsetting all existing membership levels and add-ons …

You have heard of impulse purchases or drunk domain name registrations but this one is really remarkable. Mike Mann, owner of DomainMarket.com, announced on Saturday on Twitter that he had just sold a $400,000 domain …

On May 26 & 27 2016, the city of Amsterdam at the Netherlands will host to the 11th annual The Next Web (TNW) Conference. Ticket prices for the conference increase today so anyone that wants …

Amazon attempts to make one, but ultimately all, of its new extensions restricted despite ICANN’s ban on closed generic TLDs. Amazon Registry Services, Inc., the Registry Operator of .MOI TLD, has filed to ICANN a …

.Tech, the New gTLD from Radix registry, reached 100,000 domain name registrations this morning. According to NameStat .tech is the 22nd new extension in terms of domain name registrations. Radix has several partners like GoDaddy, …

Dominion Registries, the .Homes domain name registry, has made it clear that domain name investors are not invited in their namespace. But at the same time the registry has reserved numerous premium domain names that …