Domain Name News

Like every month I go through my domains to see what to renew and what not to. In September I renewed 639 domains and dropped 118 of them. So I dropped about 15.6% of the …

The .OOO registry is talking nonsense once again on an interview with the IndiaTimes.com. “Infibeam’s chief executive Vishal Mehta told ET that the company, being the sole owner of the global top level domain (gTLD), …

Sedo announced today that it has equipped its homepage with a revamped design. “Our goal with this new look is to put buyers first and to make it even easier for both existing and new …

Aston Merrygold, former member of boyband JLS, has been awarded the domain name astonmerrygold.co.uk following a complaint to Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). The decision marks the 10,000th domain dispute to pass through the DRS …

On 1 January 2015, the Estonian Internet Foundation will bring the price of an .ee domain down from 12 to 9 euros. An .ee domain can be registered for one, two or three years. The …

Ashton Kutcher bought a couple of domains for her daughter but he missed an important one and he and Milan Kunis don’t own AshtonKutcher.com or MilaKunis.com. This is the latest SEO study: New gTLD Domains …

Ashton Kutcher was on the show Conan, with Conan O’Brien, last night. The interview was all about her daughter Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher. Ashton Kutcher and his fiancée Mila Kunis had their first child in September 30th. The …

This week 1 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and no string enters the landrush phase. Rightside enters Early Access Program (EAP) for 2 of its extensions on …

TLD Registry, operator of 2 new gTLD IDNs in Chinese, .在线 (Chinese Online) and, .中文网 (Chinese Website) announced that it opened its new China headquarters in Beijing’s Zhongguancun, also known as “China’s Silicon Valley”. The …

There were 16 4-figure sales domains yesterday and on top of that there was the sale of the domain RookiePoker.com for $20,000 by Michael Berkens. Do you know what is the best way to motivate …

Michele Neylon the Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) send a letter to ICANN’s Steve Crocker and Fadi Chehadé asking them to select a new ICANN 52 conference location as soon as possible. “It …

Total Websites performed an important SEO study on New gTLDs and EMDs. They started by doubting Matt Cutts that EMDs and gTLDs both do not play a significant role, if any, in SEO rankings: “However, as …

ICANN New gTLD auction proceeds are at about $26 million so far. Almost all money comes from the 2 most recent auctions that included New gTLDs such as .tech and .realty. .Auctions are the

Do you know what is the best way to motivate yourself starting a new project? Take a domain name that has traffic and more than $100 per year in PPC and change the nameservers from …