Domain Name News

Domain Punch is getting ready to release Watch My Domains SED (server edition) v3 during the first quarter of 2016. If you have been planning to buy the server edition, you can do so now. …

Donuts Inc. today announced that the .WINE and .VIN gTLDs will be available for general registration tomorrow January 20. The announcement follows an active two month Sunrise period during which more than

The fee for a basic .eu Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) procedure will continue to be discounted, following an agreement between the .eu registry EURid and the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC), the institution appointed to rule …

A lot of strange things happen to some domain name investors that clearly have too many domain names… Like trying to purchase at an Aftermarket a domain name you already own or searching domain names …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of December 2015 were published by Verisign. “Fang” is the only common keyword in the 2 lists. Is December a big month …

Here are a couple of the best videos from NamesCon 2016 courtesy of the NamePros.com domain name forum. The first is Frank Schilling’s keynote at NamesCon 2016 on January 11, 2016 announcing the new Uniregistry Market. The …

2015 was a great year for OnlineDomain.com and a lot of posts got a lot of attention. In 2015 there were 678 posts and 270,000 views from 197 countries. These are the top posts in 2015 by …

The European Domain Centre published an infographic based on the “Expert Roundup 2016” blog post. That post includes my personal view on where New gTLDs are heading in 2016. The post includes opinions from a …

StartingDot’s Premium TLD 50 index for Q4 2015 shows strong growth for this segment of the new gTLD market. Premium TLDs are defined by StartingDot as “Latin character suffixes (no IDNs) that are not brand or …

Flippa just introduced the all new Flippa Domains. They decided that understanding how Buyers navigate and discover their next domain acquisition – often amidst millions of other options – was crucial to their Sellers success. So …

Matt Barrie, President, Escrow.com & CEO of Freelancer.com delivered the keynote address today at NamesCon 2016 in Las Vegas. Matt Barrie is the CEO of Freelancer.com, the world’s leading freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace with more than 17 …

GoDaddy [NYSE: GDDY], today announced the launch of its first mobile app for domain investors. The GoDaddy Investor app, launching on iOS and Android, will allow investors to watch and bid on domains at auction …

Sunrise for .cars, .car and .auto ended a few days back and a few of the biggest companies in the world bought domain names. The domains were not necessarily bought by car manufacturers (Open, Honda, …

Tthe NamesCon 2016 auction made $1,495,400 selling 92 of the 131 domain names. The highest sale was Lawn.com that went for $240,000. Most of New gTLDs in the auction sold and were sold for good …