Domain Name News

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 …

Day three of ICANN51 witnessed the 2186th participant check-in to the Los Angeles meeting. This makes ICANN51 the third most attended event in the past two years. Yesterday’s sessions included ICANN Board meetings with various …

Popcorn Time App, Branded as the “Netflix for Pirates,” lost control of its domain name last Thursday. Time4popcorn.eu was suspended by the EURid registry. According to an email sent by EURid the registry explains that …

Media around the world are attacking the Ebola.com owners (and their mothers…). What do you think? ICANN 51 started On Sunday. Check out the video recap from Monday here. Click here to see domain sale …

This week 2 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 5 New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 1 string enters the landrush phase. .Okinawa enters general availability on the 14th of October. Okinawa prefecture is …

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, addressing attendees at the opening ceremony of ICANN’s 51st public meeting in Los Angeles, declared unwavering support for the United States government’s decision to transfer stewardship of the IANA functions to …

ISNIC, the .is registry, has suspended domains that were used for the website of a known terrorist organisation (Islamic State, ISIS). .IS is the ccTLD of Iceland. The majority of ISNIC’s board made this decision …

In the past 24 hours various articles have been posted on websites and publications around the globe criticizing the owners of Ebola.com that are selling the domain for $150,000. Most articles are not in favor …

On Monday, ICANN 51 participants packed the Los Angeles Room to hear U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker’s speech regarding the IANA Transition. Board Chair Steve Crocker and President and CEO Fadi Chehade took to the …

Moniker is doing one stupid thing after the other. People are complaining that they can’t log into their accounts, accounts are locked, etc. Total chaos since that day they changed to the new system and …

Donuts Inc. today registered its one millionth Internet address, making the company the first new gTLD provider to reach that total. Heavenly.COFFEE became the one millionth address registered across all Donuts gTLDs. The milestone registration …

Nokta Domains prepared a report on 2014 domain name sales based on DnJournal.com reported sales. The report compares January to September 2014 domain sales with the sales from the same period from 2013. The sales …