Domain Name News

Highest domain name sale this week at Flippa was QEI.com that sold for $14,500. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 5 domains of this week’s list. There were 11 domains that were sold by Buy-It-Now and …

I had an inquiry from someone from Scotland that didn’t end well. I mention the country as I am not familiar with all the customs in different countries but I believe this situation is pretty …

VeriSign, Inc. announced two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, is releasing the fourth installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. TLD Registry presented the world’s first, …

Sedo is at dmexco in Cologne, Germany. Today, September 16, and tomorrow Sedo will be at booth D011 in hall 6. DMEXCO is the Digital Marketing Exposition and Conference. This is an event that attracts thousands of …

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced on its Facebook page the next Townhall Q&A. He used a .xyz domain name, and not a very good one, for the streaming video: hacktv.xyz. Here is the link Mark used:

Radix registry has put .Online ads on over 35 bus shelters in San Francisco. They also have a fun digital truck doing the rounds in  San Francisco with .tech and .online videos. The truck will …

There is a new .NYC Domain Meetup coming up tomorrow Wednesday, September 16, 2015. The meetup celebrates the 1st year anniversary of the rise of the .NYC. This meetup’s title is “1st Anniversary [The Rise …

ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers …

It all started on the 26th of June, 2015. Actually the Greek debt problem started many years before that. A lot of debt was accumulated during the 80s, then in the 7 years before the …

Namejet released it’s August 2015 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 79 (94 domains in July) domains for $399,459 ($1,048,433 in July). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of August 2015 were published by Verisign. There are 2 common keyword in the 2 lists: Trump and Alphabet. This was expected …

The auction for the domain name 8.XYZ closed at $81,919 at the 2015 Domainfest Asia auction. The auction had 157 bids from 11 bidders. The Right of the Dot (ROTD) auction for DOMAINfest, powered by 4.CN, …

On August 17, 2015 the Stakeholder Council met. The Council carefully considered the report on the kids.us domain and unanimously recommended that the requirement be suspended for the life of the Neustar .us contract. Back …