Domain Name News

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

Apparently “i” domains are still selling even if Apple, the “i” king, is slowly moving away from “i” products. The domain name DerrickRose.com sold for $834 yesterday at Go Daddy auctions. Derrick Rose is one …

Bluehost is turning Pink this entire month. October is the month for breast cancer awareness and Bluehost is running a special campaign for it on an alternate URL www.pink.host, pink being the color of solidarity …

September was much busier at OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors as everybody got back from vacations. About 550 comments were made by readers. The most popular post was the new service I am …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and no string enters the landrush phase. Rightside enters general availability for 4 of its extensions on the 22nd …

During ICANN 51 in Los Angeles on the 16th of October the ICANN Board decided the introduction of 2-character domain names in the New gTLD namespace. ICANN decided that the proposed registry service for the …

Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation (.SE)​​ will conduct multiple auctions to release more of the .se domain names that are not currently possible to register. The domain names are two-character country codes, such as no.se, tv.se, …

The domain name DerrickRose.com sold for $834 yesterday at Go Daddy auctions. Derrick Rose is one of my favorite NBA players. I went to a Chicago Bulls in February 2012 and because it was an …

CENTR, the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries, has released its full report on the ICANN 51 Meeting held last week in Los Angeles. The report covers in detail the sessions held by …

Namejet released it’s September 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 80 (95 last month) domains for $459,621 ($743,969 last month). A few deals are in the list such as souvenirs.com for $16k. I am …