Domain Name News

ThePirateBay.com plus 6 other domain names have been suspended. The Pirate Bay’s original .org domain name ThePirateBay.org has passed the ICANN email verification is working properly after being suspended for a few days pending the …

Donuts has issued an infographic that shows the New gTLD growth rate by month. November featured a surge of domain name registrations. New extension registrations have grown 270% since January 2015. “The “not-com” movement has …

Panelist Christopher S. Gibson that was one of the 3-member panel in the controversial Camilla.com WIPO case was also part of some other questionable decisions in the past. I don’t think that anyone thinks this …

The Pirate Bay’s original .org domain name had stopped working as the domain name had not passed the ICANN email verification while the domain name was registered with EuroDNS. ThePirateBay.org has since been moved to …

CSC published the latest “New gTLD Utilization Report” that shows some interesting activity among .brands, with more .brand sites launching and many climbing up the Alexa rankings (including a new entry by Google). They also …

Donuts Inc. was featured on The Discovery Channel. The video features short interviews with Paul Stahura, CEO and Co-Founder of Donuts Inc., Richard Tindal co-founder of Donuts, and Jeff Davidoff, Chief Marketing Officer. See the …

Afnic just published the latest edition of its report on the Secondary Market for Domain Names focusing on current issues and trends. Sedo helped preparing this white paper. The 2010 report analyzed the trends but …

Google made a blog post answering some common questions about New Domain Name Extensions. “Creating a website or getting a custom email address with Google Domains starts with a search for a domain name. With …

China Market Consulting has released a video interview of one of China’s most well-known, influential, and successful domain investors, Peibi Wang 王培陛, or “Domain Captain”, in which he is known locally. Domain Captain is also the Founder of …

The popular domain name blog TheDomains.com is temporarily not displaying its usual content from what seems to be a glitch. TheDomains.com is currently displaying PPC ads and is offered for sale at Afternic.com. GoDaddy bought …

EURid released the 2015 EURid-UNESCO World Report on Internationalised Domain Names. According to the findings of the report, IDNs represent 2% of domain names registered worldwide. .eu is in the Top-20 TLD list for IDNs …

This is a kinda of a funny story about a domain name inquiry with a surprise ending! I always try to be nice with buyers but sometimes I can’t help myself. Sometimes I use some …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of November 2015 were published by Verisign. “Download” is the only common keyword in the 2 lists. This is the holiday season …

The Pirate Bay’s original .org domain name has stopped working as the domain name has not passed the ICANN email verification as TorrentFreak is reporting. “Many people still used the .org as a redirect to …