Domain Name News

CentralNic plc today announced that its client Top Level Design LLC (“Top Level Design”), has succeeded in beating seven other companies to successfully acquire the rights to the new Top-Level Domain (“TLD”) .DESIGN. CentralNic has …

ICANN issued a statement regarding the ICANN 52 meeting in Marrakech, Morocco. Following Morocco’s recent request to postpone the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament because of possible African travel restrictions, ICANN is in active and …

Rolf Larsen, founder and CEO of dot GLOBAL, wrote an article called “What Have We Learned From .Com?” on “Innovation Insights” of Wired.com. Some people will not like what I said about the article. I …

In the past week 484 (491 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 million ($1m last week). Only 150 (174 last week) domains from the 484 were reported by Sedo. …

There are 13 4-figure sales in the report today. I was a bidder on 2 of these 13 domains but lost. Good deals are all around us. There were 17 4-figure sales yesterday plus the …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name LowCarb.com that was sold for $45,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 6 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

There were 17 4-figure sales yesterday plus the Great Domains auction and of course DomainInvesting.com reported the sale of the domain Ebola.com for $50,000 plus shares for a total of more than $200k. Rolf Larsen, …

A new paper commissioned by CENTR and written by Architelos evaluating the impact of new gTLDs, in particular on the domain name sales channels has been published. In August of 2014, CENTR commissioned Architelos to …

.Realtor launched yesterday by the National Association of Realtors that is offering 500,000 free domains to its members. One problem with the extension is that geographic, generic terms and initials are not available for anyone …

.OOO entered general availability yesterday, 24th of October. According to ntldstats.com it has about 28,500 domains after its first day. But more than 28,000 are the so called .ooo premium reserved domains. I have no …

Rolf Larsen, founder and CEO of dot GLOBAL, wrote an article called “What Have We Learned From .Com?” on “Innovation Insights” of Wired.com. Some people will not like what I said about the article. Some …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial and business results for the third quarter of 2014, including stats on .com and .net domain names that are on the rise. Third Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, …

Rolf Larsen, founder and CEO of dot GLOBAL, wrote an article on “Innovation Insights” of Wired.com. Some people will not like what I have to say about the article, including Rolf. These kind of articles …

The National Association of Realtors launches .REALTOR today October 23 offering 500,000 domains to its members but geographic, generic terms and initials are not available. For example if you are named John Cooper Smith you …