Domain Name News

This week 6 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. 4 Donuts New gTLDs are out of EAP and enter the real …

CentralNic plc announced today that it has sold a number of premium domain names for US$2.5 million, satisfied in cash. CentralNic said that the release of new Top-Level Domains has been slower than anticipated. The …

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In the past week 509 (566 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 million ($1.2m last week). Only 143 (190 last week) domains from the 509 were reported by Sedo. …

Chinese Domaining Masterclass By TLD Registry At NamesCon 2015 Domaining Europe 2015 Will Be Held In Valencia, Spain on 23-25 April, 2015. I published my renewals/drops report from October: My 476 Domain Name Renewals And …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Hacked.com that was sold for $50,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 15 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

So it’s official. I am going to my first domain name conference: NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas. Are you going? Do you want to meet? Let me know! Chinese Domaining Masterclass By TLD Registry At …

ICANN announced that the ICANN 53 conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ICANN’s intent was to hold its second Public Meeting of 2015 in the Latin America/Caribbean region and found that an available …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME) is hosting its first Investor & Analyst Day event today from 10:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. ET at Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. The event will feature key members of Rightside’s …

Domaining Europe 2015 was announced that will be held again in Valencia, Spain from the 23rd to the 25th of April 2015. This is the 7th European Domaining Conference in Europe. Some of the discussions …

Go Daddy had a Google Hangout that explained how to to buy expired domain names: “Ever wonder what happens to expired domains? Unlike expired milk, expired domains don’t turn sour and get kicked to the …

New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .Paris 8,037, .Moscow 3,651, .МОСКВА 3,245, .ltda 59(?) Chinese Domaining Masterclass By TLD Registry At NamesCon 2015 I published today my renewals/drops report from October: My 476 Domain Name Renewals …

TLD Registry, the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, today announced three newest members of the board: Chairwoman of the board Kirsi Eräkangas(伊可思),Vice Chairman Harri …

Following the request of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for ICANN “convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role” with regard to the IANA Functions and …