Domain Name News

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 …

ICANN sent a notice of breach to popular web host and registrar DreamHost. ICANN notes that this is the 2nd notice of breach within four months for DreamHost for failure to investigate Whois inaccuracy complaints, and …

.NYC surpassed .London in domain name registrations according to ntldstats.com. .NYC is ranked 8th today with 48,671 domains compared with .London that ranks 9th with 48,479 domains. Actually .nyc is 3rd and .london is 4th …

This is where your domain money is going. ICANN spent 2 million USD in the fiscal year 2014 on expense reimbursement and other payments to ICANN Directors plus 1.3 million of payments to the ICANN …

In the past week 554 (484 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.4m last week). Only 174 (150 last week) domains from the 454 were reported by Sedo. …

I discovered that one of my one-word .com domains went from 10 uniques per month to 300 uniques per month in just a few months. It is probably because of an app using a .mobi …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Drones.net that was sold for $17,500. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 5 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

I am really angry because I post all these sales everyday and once in a while something like this happens and I don’t know what the f*ck is going on. I know that a lot …

The winning bidder of the iWire.com domain name is trying to sell the domain name before paying for it. The “buyer” won the domain in a Snapnames auction on the 19th of October for $7,777. …

I came across this article called “How to Dodge Domain Squatters”. It is written by someone that doesn’t really know a lot about domain names. Here is a peak at what I do month after …

I came across this article called “How to Dodge Domain Squatters”. It is written by someone that doesn’t really know a lot about domain names. Lisa should refrain from writing about technical stuff as I …

CentralNic plc announced its joint venture with domain name consultancy RightOfTheDot, LLC, to create specialist new retail websites for the sale of “city domains”. These new city-specific domains include: London.domains for domain names