Domain Name News

Afternic announced today that united-domains AG has joined Afternic DLS. united-domains will now offer a much broader choice of premium domain names to their customers and will have the benefit of Afternic’s Fast Transfer technology. …

Last week OnlineDomain.com reported that DN.com had shut down. DN.com initially said that after a few days the website would reopen. Today a new email message was sent that more or less says that DN.com …

.Club domain name sales continued to be solid in February with nearly $90k in sales. The registrar channel proved strong in February for .CLUB premium name sales. 17 different registrars and Sedo contributed to a …

DN.com sent an email to all its customers announcing some “entity” changes and some kind of business development. Accordingly, the DN.com website is temporary closed with the duration of 1-3 business days. During which period, …

GoDaddy had a Google hangout yesterday titled: “How to use Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to Monetize Domain Names”. During this presentation, Michael Stricker showed how Google is ranking the new Top-Level Domains. Are they among …

Starting today Google is moving all its blogs to a new domain to help people recognize when they’re reading an official blog from Google. The new domain name is GoogleBlog.com. These changes will roll out …

Nominet published an infographic showing all the domain name extensions (ccTLDs) of the world. Nominet has been looking for a way to visualise global internet use. The result is the map of the online world, …

.Club had 79 of the official submissions using a .CLUB domain name and over 100 total .CLUB projects at the 2016 Launch Hackathon. Last year at Launch .Club had 53 teams using a .CLUB domain for …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of February 2016 were published by Verisign. “Trump” is the only common keyword in the 2 lists. I am not so sure …

.NYC Domain Meetup has a big event planned for this Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 6:00 PM. The event is titled “Changing Digital Landscape of 2016 NYC” and features speakers from Link.nyc and the mayor’s …

Heritage Auctions (HA.com) announced today the domain list for the 2016 April 19 Domain Names Signature Auction in San Francisco. It will run until April 18th and then the live auction will happen on the …

12,000 .IN domain names were registered during the weekend. Chinese Premium equivalents of .IN domains are being hand registered in mass quantities. .IN is the ccTLD of India. On Friday, there were about 35,000 domain …

Watch My Domains has created a table of almost all TLDs along with whois server and other information. The table has all current TLDs, ccTLDs and IDNs (sourced from IANA). Watch My Domains offers a wide …

Namejet released it’s February 2016 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 287 (301 domains in January) domains for $2,787,626 ($2,459,845 in January). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am …