Domain Name News

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: .Global and .Yokohama entered general availability on the 9th of September. Both were flops. .Global reached 1,630 registrations and .yokohama had …

A lot of domain name related news are coming out in the past few days. Everybody is back from their vacations and New gTLDs are launching daily. .London did worse than expected by a lot …

I read on DotWeekly.com a couple of days ago that Microsoft registered the domain name FED.tv for a new “Field Emission Display TV?”. Then I remembered reading an article on Wired about up and coming …

Apple held it’s 2014 live event yesterday at California were it announced iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus together with Apple Watch and Apple Pay. I did a search on what domains Apple registered yesterday, what time did …

.London, one of the biggest geo New gTLDs, entered general availability yesterday Tuesday the 9th of September. .London got 12,423 new domain name registrations on it’s first day. .London also had 22,633 domains from it’s …

It seems that the New gTLD registry attacks on .com have no end. Some are coming from people that hold large inventories of .com domains and their prices are through the roof. Sometimes I think …

Is Bitcoins.com back on the market? The Bitcoins.com auction was cancelled back in July because of a restraining order issued by the US District Court of Seattle. I got an email today from Aron Meystedt, …

Apple held it’s 2014 live event today at Cupertino, California. Apple announced iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus together with Apple Watch. Apple unveiled it’s new payment system called Apple Pay but the exact match .com domain name …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN“) is seeking one or more provider(s) to conduct an economic study examining pricing trends and other competition indicators in the global domain name system (DNS) market. …

Afilias.info did a blog post on .भारत (.Bharat), which means India in the Hindi language that was inaugurated on August 27 in New Delhi by Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Minister of Law & Justice …

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that the first .nyc websites have gone live. The owners of these domain names, officially called “.nyc Founders,” represent a diverse group of New Yorkers—including First Lady Chirlane McCray—and …

Sometimes I can’t believe at how many expired domains are being sold daily at Go Daddy. They are the biggest registrar and their expired prices start at a low $12 but still… Of course I …

This week 6 New gTLDs enter General Availability, another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 New gTLD enters a landrush phase. .London, one of the biggest geo New gTLDs, enters general …

Here are the domain name registration results of last week’s 2 Geo New gTLD launches: .Cologne and .Koeln entered general availability on Friday the 5th of September after a week of an Early Access Program …