Domain Name News

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Siamese.com  that was sold for $5,010. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 11 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

In the past week 542 (554 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 million ($1m last week). Only 160 (174 last week) domains from the 442 were reported by Sedo. …

Moniker introduced some new security features but I can’t find them in my account and it is too late anyway. R.I.P. Moniker. Realtors are sharing their thoughts on the new .realtor extension. I won a …

Teresa Boardman, a real estate broker, wrote a piece on inman.com on the New gTLD .realtor. I have been following the article for a week now and there are now over 50 comments from realtors. …

Following the recent signing of the .PORN and .ADULT registry contracts and after a lengthy negotiation with ICANN, ICM Registry, the .XXX registry, provided today its launch dates for .PORN and .ADULT. Starting March 1, …

Moniker announced some new security features to help customers protect their domains from theft that was common practice there over the past couple of months. I say: “Too Little, Too Late”. Problems started with the …

I won a domain at Go Daddy Auctions on the 3rd of November. I went to pay for it yesterday but I couldn’t find it. I did a whois check to see if it was …

Rightside Group, Ltd. today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. Total revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2014 increased 7% to $48.8 million compared to $45.5 million for …

521 people voted and the poll results are in: A third of domainer investors don’t buy New gTLD domains but the other 2 thirds of domainers do buy them. The first New gTLDs went live …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s first 5 New gTLD launches: On the 4th of November 3 South Africa geo New gTLDs launched: .capetown, .durban and .joburg. .Capetown got …

.Club announced at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Miami the launch of Startup.club – a new program to help entrepreneurs get a .CLUB name and additional marketing and PR support for their business. With Startup.club .CLUB …

GoDaddy announced it has opened a new customer care centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The new centre will provide localised customer care to the company’s EMEA customer base. “At GoDaddy, we truly believe we can …

I was bidding for a lot (10+) of domains today and I lost most of them. I only got the cheapest one. Well… Prakhar Bindal of Axsiom made a guest appearance at my post “iWire.com …

Marchex, Inc. announced today its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. During the third quarter of 2014, Archeo domain sales yielded $1.6 million. During the second quarter of 2014, domain sales …