Domain Name News

On April 9, 2015, Sedo will be changing the minimum fee and minimum bid amounts for the first time. For customers liable for payment of VAT, there will also be changes in how the sales …

Is it possible for a registrar to efficiently promote 1000 extensions? Bookstores usually rotate the top book sellers on their homepage. But these change as new books are released. Maybe that is true these days …

Whoisology released their latest whois archive (9) that added over 160,000,000 whois records to the existing whois database. So Whoisology has officially crossed the BILLION whois record mark, 1,048,333,927 to be exact.

Double report today. I had trouble keeping up with the reports in the past few days. AEK B.C. had a big game yesterday which won by 16 points. AEK is one of the top basketball …

.BAR and .CLUB teamed up to exhibit at the Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas. Here are a sample of some of the bars and clubs already using their .CLUB and …

While most people associate March Madness with the NCAA Basketball finals, the .CLUB team experienced their own March Madness traveling to and exhibiting at six different events around the world, all in the month of …

In the past week 674 (675 in the previous week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million ($1.2m in the previous week). Only 258 (233 in the previous week) domains …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Refer.ly that was sold for $4,900. It was another good week for .io at Flippa with 6  domain names selling. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of …

Since the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center administered the first Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) case in 1999, total WIPO case filings have passed the 30,000 mark, encompassing over 58,000 domain names. In …

Donuts has been making a lot of posts in the past few days about the New gTLD renewal rate that is currently resting at about 70%. .Guru is doing worse than 70%. .Guru domain names …

Fashion Brand Buys 100+ Domain Extensions & Creates Customized Websites (videos) .UK Private Whois Domain Name Registrations Explode! PeopleBrowsr (.CEO, .Best): “What’s great about GoDaddy Now” Donuts Has Not Increased Domain Name Renewal Fees but …

PeopleBrowsr recently negotiated a vendor agreement with GoDaddy, and they have written a post to share their perception of GoDaddy as it prepare for its IPO. PeopleBrowsr is the registry of .CEO, .Best and .Kred new …

Butterfly Twists, a British ballerina brand got creative with its domain name web extensions. Hundreds of extensions have been registered and 100s of customized websites have been created. Butterfly Twists has created a search engine …

The number of .uk domains being registered to privacy services has grown from about 300 per month at the beginning of last year to 6,500 per month now. So while ICANN is looking to improve …