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Fegistry Wins .REALTY Auction For $5.6m, Outer Orchard .SALON For $5.1m & Amazon .SPOT For $2.2m

On 22 October 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; SALON, SPOT, and REALTY. …

New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .Healthcare 1406, .Vet 648, .Army 202, .Navy 122, .Airforce 116

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s first 5 New gTLD launches: One Donuts New gTLD went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability …

TLD Registry, Of Chinese Online & Chinese Website, Featured In IoN Magazine

Arto Isokoski is CEO of TLD Registry, operator of two new gTLD IDNs in Chinese, .在线 (Chinese Online) and, .中文网 (Chinese Website) is featured on page 10 of the October edition of the domain industry’s IoN …

Daily Domain Sales (10-21-2014): Pallion.com $4,500, Manicurist.com $3,211

I did a report on all .NYC domain registrations from the 1st day of general availability. Among other things I found that 22% Of Registrants Bought Only 1 Domain Each and that 3% Of Registrants …

Flippa Adds New Feature: Website Classifieds

Flippa‘s latest new feature is the Website Classifieds. Here are the 3 things you need to know about Website Classifieds: 1. Fast and simple: This is a brand new way to buy and sell websites, …

.NYC: 22% Of Registrants Bought Only 1 Domain Each, 3% Of Registrants Bought 30% Of All Domains

.NYC launched on Wednesday the 8th of October. I wanted to find who bought what domains and how many domain names were bought by each registrant. .NYC didn’t get the results some people were expecting …

New .COM & .NET Video Campaign by Verisign

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 …

Afilias To Raise $100 Million By Entering The London Stock Exchange

Afilias announced its intention to apply for admission of its issued and to be issued Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”) and to conduct a placing …

Daily Domain Sales (10-20-2014): BlueMix.com $14,500, PartyKing.dk 3,500 EUR

I really wish that Rick would start blogging again. Do you? Go Daddy and Sedo had a lot of 4-figure sales yesterday and 1 5-figure sale: BlueMix.com for $14,500. Click here to see domain sale …

.AU Report: 2.9 Million Domains, 6% Growth, 43% Of Domains Are Under 2 Years Old

A new report on .au, the Australian ccTLD, reveals that almost 50 percent of all .au domain names are between nine and 15 characters in length, while New South Wales claims the honour of the …

4 Months Without Rick

No, Rick is not dead. He very much alive but he has stopped blogging and I am a bit sad because of this. It is almost 4 months that Rick Schwartz wrote his last post …

83% Of Lawyers Not Eager To Get .Lawyer Or .Attorney Domains

Here are the results of the latest Law Times online poll. According to the poll, the majority of respondents aren’t too eager to register a .lawyer or a .attorney domain name for their websites. 83% …

WHOIS Accuracy Rates Improving Under 2013 RAA But At What Cost?

WHOIS Accuracy Rates are slowly improving, as reflected in the latest Preliminary Findings paper [PDF, 668 KB] published by the National Opinion Research Council (NORC) at the University of Chicago. These findings suggest that there …

GOV.UK Gets 8 Million Unique Visitors Per Week And Reaches 1 Billion Visits In Total

The United Kingdom government’s GOV.UK website gets just over eight million visits every week on average the Cabinet Office announced. Launched 2 years ago, GOV.UK brings together government services and information online. As the first …