Domain Name News

It has been 2 years since .Club was launched. More than 720,000 .club have been sold so far to more than 132,000 unique registrants from 130 countries. According to the .club registry there are more …

Namejet released it’s April 2016 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 5N .com and 3L .net domains. Namejet sold 187 (325 domains in March) domains for a total of $1,250,443 ($2,166,399 in …

ChopChop Domains published a video interview with Zhiqiang ‘Sky’ Wei 魏志强, VP of EJEE Group Holdings, operator of domain.cn. EJEE Group Holdings offices are located in Beijing China. Domain.cn, known as the city of domains, …

The .Mom domain extension launched yesterday by Uniregistry that is owned by Frank Schilling. In less than 24 hours after general availability a Greek registrant contacted no other than Frank Schilling to sell him a …

CentralNic sent out a chilling email informing several of its clients that the domains they have bought, build into websites and have been renewing for years will be deleted in a year from now. CentralNic …

There were quite a few LLLL.com domain name sales these 2 months, many .io domains and a few New gTLDs. Highest domain name sale for the month April at Flippa was QTO.com that sold for $23,508. The …

GoDaddy‘s newest commercial is out and it seems that former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal likes the new Shaq made of cheese that is featured in the ad. The ad is part of the new ‘Go You’ …

Rightside, a new domain name extension registry, today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016 starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Rightside believes .GAMES …

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 …