Domain Name News

The XYZ registry, announced that .Protection New gTLD will be joining the XYZ family. That is less than 24 hours after they announced the purchase of .Security from Symantec. .Protection was bought from Symantec too. …

Since DropCatch first started taking backorders, they have received numerous requests from customers wanting to backorder domains at discounted rates. To meet this desire, they have created the DropCatch Discount Club. The Discount Club is …

The XYZ registry, announced that .Security will be joining the XYZ family. “Coming to you in late-2015, .Security will be the domain for security-related entities, professionals, and all companies that would like a secure and …

ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé presents the keynote address at the ICANN53. This was during the Welcome Ceremony and President’s Opening Session. Watch the video here:

Brand protection agencies/registrars are having a blast with the new .sucks extension. They have the freedom to spend their client’s brand protection budget and they spend it as fast as they can. They spent almost …

The registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, TLD Registry had a very busy first quarter of 2015. Since late 2014, members of the global senior management team …

Vox Populi Registry Inc., the .Sucks New gTLD registry, made more than $2,633,800 from selling .sucks domains in Sunrise and the first few hours of General Availability. The registry made $2,178,000 USD (or probably more) …

Highest sales this week at Flippa were the domain names Hosting.io and Refinancing.info that sold for $5,000 each. .io and .info did very well this week with 4 and 3 sales respectively. Post-Auction Negotiation was …

Go Daddy published a 23 minute video explaining what Go Daddy has done in the past few years and what it does today. “GoDaddy – a brand recognized around the world. With offerings in 37 …

UPDATED Sedo began yesterday charging a $10 fee for each domain submitted at the Great Domains auctions. This fee will not be reimbursed, regardless of whether the

The Domain Name Association (DNA) has changed some of its board of directors in the past year or so and this change already shows the first positive signs. Although it is not an all new …

A new movie is again using a New gTLD domain name as a promotion tool. A few days back it was announced that Hunger Games is using the domain name TheHungerGames.Movie to promote the latest …

The original owner from Switzerland registered the domain name Top.Domains at the united-domains AG registrar on the 12th of March 2014. He paid $999 to buy it as this was/is a premium Donuts domain name. …

The latest Wix.com commercial starring Heidi Klum is another example of how to make a great TV ad relating to websites and domain names. I wrote about Wix.com a few months back after they aired …