Domain Name News

Pheenix announced more changes to its backordering platform. Pheenix now support Alipay deposits. This has been in the works for a while and Pheenix is glad they can offer this feature. Effective September 7, auctions …

Moniker, the once great but lately failing registrar, seems to be turning a page. Jothan Frakes will be in charge of Moniker as it was announced in DOMAINfest Asia. Andee Hill, business development director for Donuts …

Highest domain name sale this week at Flippa was VYC.com that sold for $22,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 3 domains of this week’s list. There were 11 domains that were sold by Buy-It-Now and just …

With the continued expansion of the .Club registrar distribution for tiered premium  names, August showed an increase in total premium name revenue over the prior month. This report will also note completed SnapNames auctions during …

Here are a few of the domain names I bought lately. Donuts has been releasing thousands of domain names during the summer that were initially reserved because of domain name collisions. I have been following …

ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT domain extensions announces the launch of .SEX. .SEX launched on September 1, with three distinct phases. The first phase is the TMCH Sunrise phase …

Rightside announced that it is reducing the prices of Platinum Premium domain names from its New gTLDs by 70-95%. The announcement was made by Name.com, a registrar owned by Rightside. On Sept. 9, 2015, they …

Is this one of the best New gTLD domain names? It probably is even thought you may not see it immediately. It is no secret that one of the largest domain name investors, Innovation HQ, …

ICM Registry is launching the .sex Sunrise phase on September 1, 2015. Several launch programs have been designed to provide trademark owners priority registration opportunities. Here is the complete .sex launch schedule:

I don’t like 2 word new gtld domains because they lack a certain symmetry and also because for the simple reason that they are longer that what they should be! This left.right keyword symmetry is …

Tan Tran, CEO of Pheenix, Inc., gave an update on the domain name backordering platform. Pheenix people have been quietly working hard to improve it. Here are some great new things that they have just …

After Google announced that it is creating a new holding company, called Alphabet and the new website is using the domain name abc.xyz I ran a poll asking readers what they thought the domain abc.xyz …

Minds + Machines got $3.5 Million for withdrawing its applications for .Data & .Art and they report that there is strong interest for their multiple super-premium names in the past couple of months. Minds + Machines …

.Online ended its 1st day in general availability with 35,172 domain name registrations in its zone files according to NameStat. .Online gained 33,473 domain names in the past 24 hours. (Please keep in mind that the …