Domain Name News

In our Domain Name Industry Report for April 2015 Afnic studied the major trends in the domain name market in 2014. It seemed interesting to try to extend these trends for “Legacy gTLDs” or traditional …

The usTLD Stakeholder Council is seeking comments on its recommendation to continue the suspension of the kids.us namespace through the end of the current .US contract term. The recommendation follows a report of the Kids.us …

DN.com published its 2015 Q1 Report. More than 6 months have passed since the first launch of DN.com last September. DN.com sold 170 domain names in the past 3 months for a total of $2.7 …

CENTR Board members and Management gathered in Florence on 11-12 May 2015 for a strategic retreat with the aim of defining long-term strategy plans for the organisation. After having reviewed and assessed the current environment …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name 671.net that was sold for $3,500. Big news reported today as Flippa acquired Domain Holdings. There were a lot of Portfolio Section sales this past week, including …

Flippa today announced that it has acquired the domain name brokerage company, Domain Holdings Group, based in Florida, USA. The combined Flippa and Domain Holdings Group entities are projected to hit $70m in sales over …

Earlier today, the number of domain names in Famous Four Media registries surpassed half a million. This equates to nearly 10% of all domains registered under ICANN’s new gTLD program. Of course the number includes …

The Pirate Bay will soon be leaving the  Swedish ccTLD domain name (thepiratebay.se). The popular torrent website will move to various ccTLDs around the world. TorrentFreak.com reported that earlier today the Stockholm District Court ordered …

Tema XYZ teamed-up with Uniregistry, to join forces and launch .Cars, .Car, and .Auto. Uniregistry and Team XYZ issued a press release, announcing the trifecta of new domain extensions that will represent the automotive industry. …

Donuts announced the approaching availability of more than one million previously unavailable web addresses across its top-level domains. These represent some of the most highly sought after and desirable web addresses in Donuts’s portfolio, including …

I was researching to buy a few domain names from a Donuts New gTLD that is launching this week. After doing some searching I found that the best domains are not available at any price. …

Last week I asked you to guess the purchase price of a domain name I bought back in 2011. I believe that most people guessed what I would pay for it and not the actual …

When I subscribed to be notified of new comments on Rick Schwartz’s article called “The Rick Schwartz Equation”, I never expected it to be one of the last posts he made on his blog. He …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of April 2015 were published by Verisign. The biggest surprise is that there is not a single keyword that is both on …