Domain Name News

Here are the domain name registration results from this week’s 2 New gTLD launches: .Okinawa entered general availability on the 14th of October. Okinawa prefecture is located in the southernmost of Japan. The purpose of …

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. “Google had another strong performance this quarter, with revenue up 20% year on year, at $16.5 billion,” said Patrick Pichette, …

The Afnic annual report sheds new light on major events that have marked the development of the Association in 2013: The consolidation of the French legal framework for domain names, the growth of the .fr …

Everybody, except people stuck in the 90s, know that Network Solutions is a very bad and expensive registrar. Their support is non-existent and condescending. The latest problem I am having is that Network Solutions does …

I was transferring some domains out of Network Solutions, like I always do, when I noticed that a domain I didn’t intent to transfer out, as it was expiring in 2 years, was instead expiring …

NamesCon announced the addition of a live domain auction to its Conference being held January 11-14th 2015 in Las Vegas that will be conducted by Right of the Dot. The Auction will include a mixture …

ICANN announced the appointment of Allen Grogan as Chief Contract Compliance Officer, overseeing Contract Compliance and Safeguards. But some really important numbers were revealed in the press release. “The workload of ICANN’s contractual compliance team …

As of December 8, 2014, it will be possible to register a domain name consisting of only one or two alphanumeric character(s) under the .fr. .Fr is the ccTLD of France. The opening will take …

A lot of sales yesterday. There were 3 5-figure and 12 4-figure domain sales. The sale of KorsVodka.com for $750,000 was a fake. Media around the world are attacking the Ebola.com owners (and their mothers…). …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME) announced today it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. “The diverse group of TLDs is expected to appeal …

IoN Magazine (Standing for ‘Internet of Names’) is a new magazine dedicated to the domain name system industry. It provides the latest news, views, reviews, a quintessential guide to ICANN conferences – and occasionally hopes …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has updated their New gTLD tool at ChineseLandrush.com that helps non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in Chinese domains. At ChineseLandrush.com, …

Research from 1&1 Internet of 1,000 New York City consumers revealed New Yorker perceptions and expectations for the new .nyc domains. Some Key Findings: 82% of NYC consumers experience frustration when trying to find a …

Yesterday there was a press release, that a few blogs reproduced, that reported that KorsVodka.com sold for $750,000. Was the sale real? Absolutely not! I was originally intrigued by the “last updated” date on whois …