Domain Name News

I am currently watching season 4 of Suits, a USA Network drama and one of the highest-rated series of 2013. The official website of the show is located at usanetwork.com/suits but the network doesn’t actually …

The Hon. Neil Brown QC, a very well known UDRP panelist, wrote an article on his personal blog about “Re-Filing of a UDRP Complaint”. He is commenting on a recent decision: Reliance Telecom Limited v …

Startups without the optimal domain name face an uphill marketing battle. Choosing a hard-to-spell name that fails the “Radio Test” is the number one problem, followed by not having the exact match .com domain. Seventy-nine …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) announced it has bought the domain name  GDDY.com that correspondents to its New York Stock Exchange ticker. When visited, GDDY.com takes individuals to GoDaddy’s Investor Relations page, enabling anyone to quickly …

.SE, the Swedish ccTLD, has decided to allow registration of .se domain names with only one character. The most attractive domain names will be released through an auction on Tradera. The 18 .se domains up …

The .Fit New gTLD is launching today. I received an email from Minds + Machines, the registry that owns the new extension, announcing the launch and I was curious to see how much the domain …

Internet platform business and backend TLD provider CentralNic announced that it doubled its revenue in 2014, to £6.07mln from £3.05mln in 2013. The group finished 2014 with 3

Jeff Sass, the ‎Chief Marketing Officer of .Club, delivered yet another great presentation on the 2nd day of the Domaining Europe 2015 Conference in Valencia, Spain. Jeff Sass, who has been very busy marketing .club …

Sedo announced today it’s latest feature: Sedo’s Direct Auction. You can now auction off your domain names at Sedo any time. Just choose the starting time and your desired reserve price – that’s it! No …

New gTLDs accounted for 21% of the net growth of the domain name market in 2014. “The recent publication of the ICANN reports for the month of December 2014 enables us to finally take stock …

Domaining Europe 2015 continued on Friday 24th of April in Valencia, Spain and the Sorolla Palace Hotel. The 7th European Conference was the biggest European Domaining Conference with over 20 International Speakers and over 120 …

Freelancer Limited, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Escrow.com from a private investor for

Braden Pollock, a well known domainer and owner of Legal Brand Marketing, revealed during a Domaining Europe session that he recently bought the domain name Pleasure.com. The domain name was bought through a broker for …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name NUP.com that was sold for $25,000. Quieter week, en route to $75,000+ in sales (including those privatized). .IOs continued to show strength, with Rank.io selling …