Domain Name News

Chick-fil-A, the American fast food restaurant chain, bought 8 new .restaurant domain names costing thousands of dollars each. Waste of money, if you ask me. .Restaurant, a New gTLD launched by Donuts, is out of …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs launched: .melbourne. Melbourne’s population is 4,347,955. .Melbourne got

Minds + Machines and the registrar Hexonet mistakenly priced a lot of premium domains cheap, so those domains were sold at standard/low prices. Now they are asking thousands of dollars for premium renewals. Meanwhile a …

Archeo Domains, a Marchex company, released its 3rd Quarter 2014 newsletter that includes great advice for business owners about why and how a premium domain can boost their business. Archeo sold $1.6M worth of domain …

Minds + Machines and the registrar Hexonet mistakenly priced a lot of premium domains and those domains were sold at cheap standard prices. The problem affects domains registered in the past 2 months such as …

A new forum dedicated to New gTLDs was launched at gTLD.link. The new domain name forum was created by domainers Phil Harris and Chad Wright. The New gTLD domain forum was launched before 3 weeks and …

ICANN plans to release an authorization process by 1 December that no longer requires Registry operators to reserve all number/letter (2a), letter/number (a2), or number/number (22) New gTLD domain names at the second-level. This category …

I hate it when people go MIA when you accept their offer. Today the U.S. Federal Court decided that Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) can not be seized and Moniker Announced a New Chief Operating …

A U.S. federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment. Claimants filed writs of attachment to …

Go Daddy published an article called “Take your next great idea (or not) to the domain aftermarket”. The article talks about what you can do with the domain names you have and don’t need. There …

At month-end September, the contribution of “traditional” generic TLDs (.com, .biz, .info, etc.) to net market growth in 2014 was 45% against 75% in March 2014. The October 2014 edition of the Afnic Industry Report …

Moniker announced today that Mr. John McLaughlin will assume responsibility as the new Chief Operating Officer. Mr McLaughlin’s first statement might infuriate a lot of Moniker’s clients: “The new management platform represents an industry leading …

Internet.bs is releasing a list of 9.5 million .COM names which are currently registered under other TLD spaces yet remain unregistered under .COM. That’s a lot of list! “There is so much potential amongst these …

Waiting for good news. I don’t know if you have hear but Sedo Added A Minimum Sales Commission Fee To Parked Domains and Radix, Tucows & Namecheap Won Auction For .Online Domains For More Than …