Domain Name News

We are now just a week away from the first anniversary of the New gTLD program launch. It all started when 7 New gTLDs from Donuts were released on the 29th of January 2014. That …

Domaining Europe 2015 that will be held again in Valencia, Spain from the 23rd to the 25th of April will feature Adam Dicker as a keynote speaker. Adam Dicker is going to open the conference …

ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com website and domain name sold today at Flippa for $85,000 after receiving 345 bids. Escrow.com Releases Express Cart – A Way To Provide Escrow Services On Your Website Rightside Released Collision Domains Names For …

Rightside released thousands of domains names that were originally blocked on the ICANN Name Collision List on January 17, 2015. Complete lists of the collision domains are available to download. The domain names were on …

Last week, during NamesCon, Escrow.com released “Express Cart” that allows anyone to provide Escrow services directly from their website. Do you need to provide Escrow services on your site? This applies to anyone that has …

Registry operator Dot Scot Registry Limited announced the release of some of its reserved .SCOT domains from the Name Collision List on the 6th of January after which all names are in the general pool …

Check out my latest domain name renewal/drop report: November: 827 Domain Name Renewals And 119 Drops (12.6%) It seems that owners of high premium New gTLD domains are trying to sell them by hiding renewal …

Like every month I go through my domains to see what to renew and what not to. I am a bit late on this report because of the holidays and NamesCon. So, in November I …

It seems that owners of high premium New gTLD domains are trying to sell them by hiding renewal cost? What do you think? New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Brussels, .Vlaanderen, .ForSale, .Band, .RIP, .Space Was …

I am finally home and trying to catch up. As much as I liked meeting all you at NamesCon I think I made a mistake staying in Vegas more days after the conference ended. Well, …

I noticed an auction at Flippa for the domain USA.Vacations that ended a few days back. High bid was $800 and the domain didn’t sell but what is quite interesting are the comments. It seems …

This week 3 New gTLD enter General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 string enter the landrush phase. 2 geo New gTLDs from Belgium enter general availability this week: .brussels …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: One Donuts New gTLD was out of EAP and into real (reg-fee) General Availability on the 14th of January …

Namejet released it’s December 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 102 (61 last month) domains for $557,335 ($235,705 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …