Domain Name News

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 …

Verisign, the registry operator for .com, .net and other domain names, is releasing a series of short, humorous videos this month promoting .com and .net domain names You can see the first 2 videos, Cake in …

Following a 90-day public consultation period, ICANN is implementing a solution to allow new gTLD registries to release names from their Second-level Domain (SLD) Block Lists while complying with all Rights Protection Mechanism requirements. ICANN …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company has gained, in aggregate, cash of approximately $8.4 million through withdrawing its applications on .book, .cloud, .dog, .site, …

Donuts and its New Domain Names were showcased on the television show Cycle America, filmed on-location in September at Interbike in Las Vegas. The Annual Interbike International Bicycle Exposition is “where the bicycle industry gathers …

Rightside Group, Ltd. announced it is partnering with Bandzoogle, a company whose technology platform is used by over 20,000 bands and musicians to power their websites and online stores. Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level …

It was a very bad day today. Glad it is over. It was a close call… Moniker introduced some new security features but I can’t find them in my account and it is too late …

This week 5 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 1 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 2 strings enter the landrush phase. On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs is launching: …

Starting October 21, 2014, Sedo added a 50 EUR/USD or 35 GBP minimum sales commission fee to all domains. Up until that time parked domains with Sedo didn’t have a minimum sales commission. Sedo actually says …

A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction, paying more than $10 million, to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. Each of Radix, Tucows and NameCheap will contribute …

The Mayor’s London Enterprise Panel (LEP), the local enterprise partnership for London, has become the first Mayoral body to adopt a Dot London web domain, as it launched its new website this week – lep.london. …

The SWITCH foundation will stop selling .ch domain names as of the beginning of January 2015 and successively hand over the related client support to its business partners, the registrars. The basis for this change …