Domain Name News

Radix shared its bi-annual premium report for the second half of 2021. This report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the Radix nTLD portfolio from 1st July 2021 till 31st December …

Epik Holdings Inc. announced the completion of its acquisition of Kobalt Media. Kobalt was founded in 2000 and is a full-service digital marketing agency with a suite of custom marketing solutions, industry leadership, and digital …

Nominet announced that it is has donated £200k to the DEC Ukraine humanitarian appeal now underway. Nominet has also stopped accepting registrations from registrars in Russia as it is suspending the relevant tags. This is …

Sedo informed its customers that it is suspending the trading and parking for .ru and .by domains and that it is currently unable to serve customers from Russia or Belarus, as well as corresponding bank …

Australia’s newest namespace, .au direct, will launch on 24 March 2022. auDA and the Australian domain name industry are working together closely to prepare for its introduction. Registrants of existing com.au, net.au, org.au, asn.au, id.au, …

Godaddy issued a statement explaining how it is supporting Ukrainian customers that are affected by the unwarranted aggression from the Russian Government: “Over the past week, we have been witnessing the atrocities taking place in …

Deputy Prime-Minister of Ukraine, Mykhailo FEDOROV, sent a letter to Goran Marby, ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer, asking for sanctions targeting the Russian Federation. Here is the letter from Mykhailo FEDOROV to ICANN: “I …

Namecheap has banned all Russian customers from using its services in an email you can see below. This ban includes even domain name registrations. Namecheap also started offering free anonymous hosting and domain name registration …

Last month, Dynadot struck another milestone of reaching an additional million domains under management. Dynadot reached a total of four million domains going from 3 million to 4 million domains in a little over six …

The CENTR Board is following Russian military actions in Ukraine with concern and strongly condemns the violation of international law and Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Ukraine’s national TLD registry is a member of CENTR and CENTR …

Nominet, the .UK registry, has released its summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) during 2021.   The number of Complaints was at a record low since the DRS began in 2001, …

NamesCon Global returns for 2022 as an in-person event at Austin, Texas. NamesCon Global 2022 takes place August 31-September 3 at the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown in the heart of Austin, Texas. All programming and …

1: With the domain name portfolio version 2 upgrade, DAN is introducing a completely revamped & advanced way of managing your domain portfolio. They have completely rewritten the portfolio front & backend to make it …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2021. Fourth Quarter Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $340 million for the fourth quarter of 2021, …