Domain Name News

In what seems to be one of the worst decisions in domain name history I just lost the domain name ini.gr (INI.gr) to PepsiCo Greece. PepsiCo wanted to register ivi.gr (IVI.gr) but couldn’t because I …

Uniregistry just announced today that it now supports premium New gTLD domain name registrations and transfers from the Donuts and Rightside registries. Up until last week, that I last tried it, you couldn’t transfer a …

Connectingnyc.org published a status report doing an evaluation of the .nyc extension at its 6 month anniversary. The report has many interesting stats including the percentage of parked domains (74.27%), although I am not sure …

Here is an imaginary email from a prospective ‘buyer’: Subject: Sex.com Internet Domain. Do you know all domain endings? From .com to .whatever. (Infographic) Take a look at My Domain Name Purchases In 2014 (Part …

Dear sir, I am writing to you because maybe you can help me. I intent to buy your domain. I am interested in buying it for a lowish price. I see that you have this …

ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announced that .PORN and .ADULT are available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain …

.Cymru and .Wales sold over 5,000 domain names in the first 24 hours of general availability and more than a 1,000 domains in the first hour. New Welsh domain names – .cymru and .wales – …

Radix Assumes Full Ownership Of .Online Domain Names (Tucows & Namecheap Remain As Marketing Partners) Do you know all domain endings? From .com to .whatever. (Infographic) Take a look at My Domain Name Purchases In …

Radix, a new gTLD registry, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched many new gTLDs such as .website, …

Do you know all domain endings? From .com to .whatever. (Infographic) Take a look at My Domain Name Purchases In 2014 (Part 2). Go Daddy: “Don’t Give Up On Your Dream Domain” (video) Google Paid …

In the past week 514 (538 in the previous week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $0.9 million ($1.2m in the previous week). Only 168 (171 in the previous week) domains …

Christopher Hofman, founder of the  European Domain Centre, published an infographic showing all domain name extensions. It starts in 1985 with .com and .edu and ends 30 years later, in 2015, with extensions such as …

NamesCon 2016 will be held on January 10 to January 13, 2016 at The Tropicana hotel in Las Vegas. NamesCon is offering the opportunity to attend NamesCon 2016 at a fraction of the final ticket price. …

In early February 2015, CENTR’s ccTLD full members aggregate registrations crossed the 70 million mark. This number includes 57 ccTLDs and IDN ccTLDs in 49 countries. CENTR’s full members have benefited from a 45% growth …