Domain Name News

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 …

Rightside is launching .MARKET and .MORTGAGE today and they send out a press release. In the part of the press release that refers to the .mortgage launch it says: The launch of .MORTGAGE signifies an …

Donuts sent ICANN a comment  regarding the Community  Priority  Evaluation Application  by  GMO Registry,  Inc.  for  .Shop New gTLD. From what I have seen most community application have no merit, including the controversial .gay application. …

This week 5 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 3 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 4 strings enter the landrush phase. On the 4th of November 3 South Africa geo New gTLDs launched: …

Prakhar Bindal of Axsiom made a guest appearance at my post “iWire.com Winning Bidder For $7,777 Tries To Sell The Domain Before He Pays For It At Snapnames” and with 20+ entertaining comments explained that …

Igloo.com recently shared some exciting data supporting speculations within the industry regarding the predominance of unreported sales. “While many sales are recorded on well-regarded industry blogs including DN Journal and Domaining.com, it is exceedingly rare …

Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. today reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2014 and it announced the purchase of the BuyDomains assets, a company related to web design called Webzai and …

Minds + Machines Group Limited provided an update today on its top-level domain launches. Minds + Machines seems to be satisfied with the revenue from its 10 New gTLDs so far but not with the …

ICANN announced that community concerns about the Ebola virus that would prevent maximum participation at its next global meeting (ICANN 52, 8-12 February 2015), a critical one given the ongoing discussions around the IANA Stewardship …

ICANN joins the Africa Information and Communication Technologies Alliance (AfICTA) and Egypt’s National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) in organizing a first of its kind two-day workshop on DNS Entrepreneurship. When: 4-5 November 2014 Where: Cairo …

There were a lot of 4-letter domains at Go Daddy auctions today. Most went pretty cheap and most were sold for $32. Do these belong to someone that will renew them is a couple of …

Back in May 2014 I made a few suggestions to ICANN regarding the New gTLD zone file access. So when I got an email with the subject “About enhancements to CZDS” I was excited. The …