Domain Name News

The .org extension is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary this week. Here is a list of 30 fun facts about .org that you probably don’t know. Mitre Corporation, a research and development center sponsored by the …

Elaine Pruis, Vice President, Operations at Donuts Inc, clarified why Donuts is delaying the release of 2-character domains until September and how the 2 character domains will be treated in regards to sunrise claims. Elaine …

Christopher Hofman Laursen and the European Domain Centre published a list of 50+ businesses that dumped their .com (or some other gTLD or a ccTLD) for a new top level domain. They hand picked 50+ cool …

Verisign announced the Grand Prize Winner of the #InternetOfficial contest. It is KidsCookDinner.com, registered through Network Solutions. New York-based Kate K. submitted the most descriptive, memorable and original COM domain name that resonated with the …

Highest sales this week at Flippa were the domain names 1095.com that sold for $17,566. .io did very well this week with 6 sales. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 8 domains of this …

Victory! We just won the complaint for the domain name Toyotomi.com. The complaint was denied by a three member panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Complainant didn’t submit all evidence to the Panel, …

Minds + Machines announced today that Carlsberg, the brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program. After extensive consultation with Minds + Machines, Carlsberg has secured over 150 .beer domains, in a portfolio that …

After I published my published my New gTLD purchases and announced that I had invested $50,000 in New gTLD domain names some people questioned my dedication to the New gTLDs. That was because my buying …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that registrations within .work have now passed 55,000 positioning it in the top 20 of new top-level domains launched under ICANN’s new gTLD programme. The company also reported the …

Starting Dot published the Q2 2015 Premium TLD 50, and they are beginning to see some interesting trends in this space. There’s stability at the top, with the 5 biggest TLDs by volume all showing …

It was reported today by the domainincite.com that the New gTLD domain name Net.Work was sold for $100,000. The buyer was Bearingpoint IP Holding B.V. from bearingpoint.com. It was sold by the .work registry that is Minds + …

The New gTLD domain name sales report is back. Courtesy of Sold.Domains that now has more than 500 secondary market sales in its database. Donuts is releasing during the summer thousands of previously reserves domain …

Sedo announced today that they launched a new feature  today. With the new domain name Ownership Self-Verification, the ownership status of your domains won’t have to be checked manually anymore. This way they have eliminated …

Today, Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, which provides a review of the state of the domain name industry through statistical and analytical research. The following are the top-line numbers at the close …