Domain Name News

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 …

2015 Domainfest Asia may have ended but bidding at the domain name auction is going strong! The Right of the Dot auction for DOMAINfest, powered by 4.CN, is running September 2-10, 2015 – before and after …

Donuts is releasing today, September 9, 207,300 two character domain names. (LL ,LN, NL, NN) The two character domains include letter-letter, letter-number, number-letter and number-number combinations (for example, “A1” or “US” or “CO”). Please note that not …

I am dropping my only .london domain name. The domain name is planet.london and anyone that wants it can have it. First come, first served. But I wouldn’t be so fast to jump into this …

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 …