Domain Name News

I am posting some of the domain name purchases I made in the first half of 2014. Most were bought at dropped or expired domain name auctions. All domains listed here are .com. I have …

.ORGANIC domain operator Afilias today announced the results of a poll conducted in U.K. and U.S.. The report makes it seem like 60% of the consumers have stopped buying organic products on .com and .co.uk and …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 6 New gTLD launches: 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of EAP and entered the real (reg-fee) General Availability on the 10th of …

Global travel and entertainment company One Degree World launched the first 8 out of 300 partner portfolio websites. Websites are build on a series of newly released TLDs including .BUZZ, .NINJA and .VEGAS. “Launching the …

I don’t know if anyone remembers the hand registration contest from last year that Elliot at DomainInvesting.com ran, but I just got my first offer on 1 of the domains that I chose NOT to …

Rightside Group, Ltd. hosted its first Investor & Analyst Day on Friday, December 5, at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. The event featured presentations by eight members of Rightside’s management team, with in-depth …

Heritage Auctions will hold an exclusive premium domain name auction on February 9th at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. This auction will feature a maximum of 30 (it was 20 last …

ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed agreement for renewal of the 2005 Registry Agreement for .JOBS which is set to expire on 5 May 2015. This proposal is a result of discussions between …

ICANN shared some data about the considerable progress made to deploy Internationalized Domain Names in the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone file. In 2010, hostnames used in the DNS were limited to a subset …

The .Paris registry announced that the .paris has been successful with 12,000 purchased domain names so far. “A week after the public opening , the new web address Paris has already surpassed the 12,000 websites …

Some people have no shame. I got an inquiry again today from the guy that offered me $2,000 and I started the escrow transaction and then 2 days later he said he could only afford …

Only 8,16% of all 70k registered .guru domains have been renewed so far, 2 months before a lot of domains start expiring. As expected EAP renewal rate is higher. Of course most people wait until …

TLD Registry Ltd, the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, today announced a partnership agreement with Internet advising and consulting firm, RightoftheDot, LLC (ROTD). “ROTD …

fTLD Registry Services, LLC announced an agreement with Symantec Corporation to provide verification services for the “.bank” and “.insurance” generic top-level domains. In this role, Symantec will add a layer of protection to the new …