Domain Name News

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 …

Yet another 5-figure New gTLD sale was announced today by Uniregistry. Frank Schilling, owner of Uniregistry, announced today on domainsherpa.com that they sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers for $50,000. The domain name was …

Verisign announced the third – and final – round of the monthly #InternetOfficial contest First Prize Winners! This round of winners brings the total number of First Prize Winners to 15. Each will receive $5,000, …

DOMAINfest will be held on Sunday, September 27th at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as part of THE Domain Conference, which runs from Saturday, September 26th through Tuesday, September 29th. Jothan …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Stockholm.org that was sold for $12,800. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 3 domains of this week’s list. There were 7 domains that were …

Beginning last week, Donuts Inc., started releasing for registration 1.369 million previously reserved domain names. The domains were initially reserved because of collisions. The company is making these names available in batches each week between …

Afnic’s annual general meeting was held on June 12, 2015. On the same occasion, the association published its 2014 Activity report. For Afnic, 2014 in many ways was a year of opening, in every sense …

Namejet released it’s May 2015 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 97 (116 domains in April) domains for $$593,760 ($631,113 in April). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am …

Yesterday I published the story of the domain names ads.porn and ads.adult that were deleted by the registry because of an administrative mistake had not put the domains on the reserved list. I searched to …

A reader named James complained that the .porn and .adult registry deleted 2 domains after he had successfully registered them for about 2 days. James pre-ordered the domain names and got them in General Availability …

In a newsletter sent out today it was revealed that the domain name Commercial.Property was sold by Uniregistry at the DomainNameSales.com platform for $25,000. Commercial.Property went straight to the #9 place of the

Donuts has decided not to release any of the 2 character domains (LL ,LN, NL, NN) yet. Last month Donuts announced the availability of more than one million previously unavailable web addresses across its top-level …