Domain Name News

ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion into their systems. We believe a “spear phishing” attack was initiated in late November 2014. It involved email messages that were crafted to appear to come from our own …

Here is my latest .NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%). I posted some of my 2014 domain name purchases. More coming soon! This is my …

This week no New gTLD enters General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 3 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs entering EAP on the 17th of December: …

In the past week 458 (509 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.3m last week). Only 150 (143 last week) domains from the 458 were reported by Sedo. …

Here is my latest .NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%). This Is How Namejet Treats “Long Time NameJet Partners” I posted some of my 2014 …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name HackerMagazine.com that was sold for $6,000. There is a lot of hacking going on! Last week Hacked.com sold for $50,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of …

This is a follow up to my 1st .NYC report because now .nyc zone is more representative and reflects the true registration patterns of people of New York. There were 13,669 registrants that only bought …

One Degree World plans to launch more than 1,300 new travel related websites on New gTLD domain names. A few days back I wrote how global travel and entertainment company One Degree World launched their …

Namejet released it’s November 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 61 (67 last month) domains for $235,705 ($503,394 last month). I was hoping for the report to include the .nyc auction sales but that …

You should watch Rick Schwartz’s last DomainSherpa show of his career. 🙁 This Is How Namejet Treats “Long Time NameJet Partners” I posted some of my 2014 domain name purchases. More coming soon! This is …

You should watch Rick Schwartz’s last DomainSherpa show of his career. 🙁 This Is How Namejet Treats “Long Time NameJet Partners” I posted some of my 2014 domain name purchases. More coming soon! This is …

Last month Rick Schwartz, aka the Domain King, announced on his LinkedIn page that he is retiring. Yesterday, I went to watch the latest DomainSherpa show only to see this sad news in the description …

This Is How Namejet Treats “Long Time NameJet Partners” I posted some of my 2014 domain name purchases today. This is my first post of what will be a series of articles with some of …

I was entering my proxy bids on a few domain name auction houses I am following and when I got to Namejet I saw that ChristianTelevison.com was ending today so I thought that I would …