Domain Name News

Freenom will soon relaunch the .GQ top level domain – the domain extension of Equatorial Guinea – and  give all .GQ domains away for free. I think that the GQ magazine will not be too …

Another first from the .London registry, Valideus and Minds + Machines. I was just informed something remarkable about .London Priority Domains that have more than 1 application and therefore are entering an auction in a …

I was watching the down.com auction at Flippa that went for $50,000 but the reserve was not met. I own down.org and wanted to see how this goes. I don’t know if you read my …

Future Media Architects (FMA) is transferring over 100,000 domains names to the Cayman Islands based registrar Uniregistry. Uniregistry is a registrar owned by domain name investor Frank Schilling. Future Media Architects, Inc. (FMA) is owned …

Donuts released its latest newsletter and announced that it has brought 147 new gTLDs to the public, “offering more choice, specificity and meaningfulness to businesses and individuals worldwide”. They also announced that they exceeded 1,000,000 …

As of August 2014 the total number of domains across all Top Level Domains (TLDs)  stood at 282.5 million (including new gTLDs). This represents a growth of roughly 1.6% since May 2014 (4.5 million registrations). …

There were 7 5-figure sales yesterday and another one at about $9,500. The top sale was answers.tv for 22,500 EUR ($28,340). I went through all 42 different regional Go Daddy homepages to find out what …

The .nz registry has started offering shorter .nz (New Zealand) ccTLD domain names. From yesterday 1pm, 30 September 2014, ‘second level’ domains like the .co in ‘.co.nz’ and the .org in ‘.org.nz’ became optional. You’ll …

Go Daddy has been using different homepages for different countries and different languages for quite some time now. So I thought about going to all homepages and checking what domain name extensions Go Daddy is …

The 10th anniversary T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show will feature the Opening Cocktail Party, the networking event that launched an industry back in 2004 to the Masquerade Ball and dinner to the Industry Awards Ceremony, special guest speakers …

Today, the first .cymru and .wales websites will go live when Wales’ First Minister and the National Assembly’s Presiding Officer officially switch over the first tranche of websites to their new internet domains, marking a …

Last week I wrote about the latest email scam that is targeting domain name owners. Domain name owners receive an email with their details from whois data and a domain name that may or may not …

Not much to talk about today. I have been pretty busy on a new project and I sold another domain that is not in English and the buyer is from Europe. One domain on Friday …

DomainNameSales.com issued an announcement to inform users of upcoming changes between now and Q1 2015. Frank Schilling has had more than 12 million in sales up to now in 2014. With the completion of Uniregistry …