Domain Name News

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 …

Afilias today announced the first phase of the introduction of a new generic top-level domain that is dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: dot LGBT or .LGBT. The …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On the 1st of December, 2 Russian geo New gTLDs launched: .moscow and .МОСКВА (xn--80adxhks). Moscow is the capital …

The 2nd annual NamesCon domain name conference, to be held in Las Vegas in January 2015, announced a major lecture series presented by TLD Registry, the world’s leading Chinese domain name registry. TLD Registry is …

I published today my renewals/drops report from October: My 476 Domain Name Renewals And 49 Drops (9.3%) I booked my flight ticket to Namescon in Las Vegas. I applied for a new passport too. Now …

As previously announced, ICANN had been working towards developing a process to permit registries to request the release of two-character ASCII domain names at the second-level for registration to 3rd parties and activation in the …

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. So, in October I renewed 476 domains and dropped 49 …

Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, which takes a pulse of global domain registrations and trends. The following are the domain industry’s top-line numbers at the close of Q2 2014: 4 million domain …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third …

There are 16 4-figure sales and 1 5-figure sale in the report below. One of the busiest days I have seen. I am even closer to booking my flight ticket to Namescon in Las Vegas. …

A couple of weeks back I wrote how I won a Namejet auction for a domain name owned by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. The domain name was movieheaven.com and I won the auction for $413 …

Today, December 2 2014, .Paris domains opened to everyone at a “first come, first served” basis. Looking for a typically Parisian address at an affordable price? .paris is the new Parisian top-level domain (TLD) which …

In the past week 566 (554 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million ($1m last week). Only 190 (185 last week) domains from the 566 were reported by Sedo. …