Domain Name News

I bought a domain name at Go Daddy the other day: BlogInfo.com for $430 to go with my blog.info. I couldn’t resist. Make sure you read this: “New Domain Renewal Scam Steals Your Credit Card …

An internet maze of several (some hidden) domain names across different registrars, with or without whois privacy, 2 countries, stolen credit card numbers and ICANN. And this only part of what this scam is about. …

.Scot, the New gTLD for Scotland, launched yesterday 23rd of September. As I don’t have access to the .scot zone files I asked the .scot registry on Twitter how many .scot domains have been registered …

ICANN announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string (xn--mgbtx2b عراق) for the Republic of Iraq. Iraq’s latin ccTLD is .IQ. The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was …

NEUSTAR requested from ICANN the release of all reserved country and territory names for .NEUSTAR. I really don’t get how ICANN works sometimes. They first decided to reserve all country names for all New gTLDs …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced its unaudited interim results for the 6 month period ended 30 June 2014. During the period, total sales in H1 2014 increased 4114% to £295,000 primarily as a result …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced today that it has won the auctions for .law and for .vip. The Group has also gained in aggregate cash of approximately $6.2 million (£3.8 million) from withdrawing its …

I noticed today that BrandBucket is selling domains at Flippa. Uzo.com is at $30,000 but reserve has not been met yet. I am still waiting for the .London priority program auctions to start. Or have …

“Over the next 6-12 months we expect to get about 1-2 million domain registrations under .ooo”. All I can say is: lol. Maybe they should rename their New gTLD from .ooo to .lol. They will …

ICANN published a draft Work Plan to describe the set of community reviews and activities underway and planned to support consideration of an additional application process for the next round of generic top-level domain (gTLD) …

Scotland’s own domain .scot went live from 2pm (GMT+1) today (September 23) giving Scots, businesses and relevant parties the chance to own their own Scottish part of the internet. It puts Scotland on parity with …

1&1 and Fasthosts registrars have produced an interesting heatmap of successful .London registrations and found that the City of Westminster, is the no.1 London borough for successful .London domain registrations (14 per cent). Home to …

WebIm.com was sold for $20,050 at DropCatch. Whois just updated and someone from China is the new owner. It was once before auctioned for $4,494 on the 13th of September but it wasn’t paid for. …

This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another one New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and 4 enter the landrush phase. .Scot, under the shadow of the 55% ‘NO’ poll vote, is launching …