Domain Name News

The third quarter of 2021 closed with 364.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, a decrease of 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the second quarter of 2021. Domain name …

Nominet, the .UK registry, has today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to 31 October 2021. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain …

Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced an expansion of its registry portfolio of top-level domains. PIR’s acquired the New gTLD extension .GIVING from Giving Limited. Once the transfer is finalized, PIR will “offer access to …

DAN’s Open Domain Distribution Network has launched. The advanced, easy-to-implement & feature-rich domain distribution network is now out of Beta and available for enterprise-level integrators. With this new network, DAN aims to create a pool …

CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced that it has acquired the domain name and brand protection business trading as NameAction in an asset deal for a consideration of c.$1 million in cash from NameAction Inc. …

This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD/NewgTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current …

Last month I wrote about a disastrous mixup with GoDaddy and Afternic domain name pricing at Domain Tools. Generally, when you do a whois search at Domain Tools and the domain name is listed for …

Dynadot has started announcing aftermarket domain name sales. The report includes domain name sales from Expired Auctions, Backorder Auctions, User Auctions, Last Chance Auctions, and Marketplace listings. See the top 10 Aftermarket sales from September …

GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting was hacked and up to 1.2 million customers were exposed. Email addresses, customer numbers, usernames, passwords and SSL private keys were all exposed. And somehow GoDaddy either found out about this …

Namecheap announced the launch of its new domain market. Developed by the technology team at Namecheap, the platform allows professionals to search, find, and purchase domain names via in-house auctions or ‘Buy it now” listings. …

Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced the selection of four new members to its Advisory Council, which is composed of leaders and activists from a broad spectrum of mission-driven organizations around the world. The Advisory Council …

Nominet announced that Paul Fletcher will join as CEO.   Paul Fletcher is currently CEO at BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, an organisation with 60,000 members. He will join Nominet in February 2022, bringing vital experience of working with a wide variety of …

Matt Wegrzyn, founder & CEO of Bodis, wrote a blog post implying that other PPC companies are copying its landing page templates and thus confusing Bodis customers. The companies mentioned were ParkingCrew and Sedo. You …

The .US ccTLD extension had its live town hall forum with the .US Stakeholder Council. The Town Hall had a rundown of the current state of the domain industry and .US specifically plus policy considerations …