Domain Name News

I closed another deal yesterday. It is the 3rd domain name that I have sold in the past 10 days for 5-10k Euro. All buyers were from Europe. Is this a coincidence? I don’t think …

.NYC launched today and the 1st day results are not as good as expected. .NYC added 20,455 domains after its general availability launch. So it now has a total of 26,853 registered domain names. I …

The domain name Digital.com that was bought for $373,750 this July is being transferred out of Moniker. I believe that it is transferred out by its rightful owner. If not then this post will serve …

ICANN Accredited registrar Domain Cost Club starts a new club to provide domains at wholesale price to its members. Starting from October 2014, the registrar will accept new members. All domain registrars buy domains at …

.NYC, the Internet’s newest domain extension goes on sale to the general public today the 8th of October. All individuals & businesses with a physical address in New York City are now eligible to purchase …

I bet you all have heard of the massive hacking attack on Moniker. It was successful and many domains have been reported as stolen including domains such as bit.com. This is “How To Check If …

INOC today announced its sponsorship of ICANN 51, taking place October 12-16, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA. INOC is the proud sponsor and host of a happy hour at X bar located inside the Hyatt …

The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) send a letter to ICANN on the 10th of September about the release of 2 character domain names in New gTLDs that a lot of registries are now requesting. It …

Yesterday Moniker send emails to all its users with new passwords and asked them to change the passwords immediately. It was later reported that this was done after a massive hacking that resulted in many …

The National Association of Realtors® has won the rights to the new .realestate top-level domain. NAR intends to use the .realestate domain along with the recently acquired .REALTOR domain to create order for real estate …

Eurid, the .eu registry, announced the 15 website finalists for the .eu Web Awards. The .eu Web Awards is an online competition launched with the objective to distinguish and award .eu websites that are leaders in …

Enough with the spam. I have had over 1000 spam comments in a day. I am sorry if one of your comments ended up in spam. I will probably never find it in this flood …

I wrote this and then totally forget to post it. Here are the domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: .BAYERN launched on the 30th of September and got 19,170 domains …

This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and no strings enter the landrush phase. This is the slowest week in New gTLDs since February when it …