Domain Name News

Dolly Parton, the legendary Queen of Country, has registered queenof.country, dolly.country, and dollyparton.country and has agreed to be part of the .country pioneer program, which provides domain names to musicians, businesses, and organizations before the …

In the past week (August 25 to August 31), 556 (561 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million ($0.9m last week). Only 163 (168 last week) domains from …

I have closed 3 deals lately and I revealed the first domain name yesterday. It was sold for $4,000 and you can read about it here. Mark from DomainPicks.com has been skipping a lot of …

The DOMAINX 2014 domain name conference starts today, the 7th of September, in India. The conference that is being held for the first time is hosted by the Marriott Hotel & Convention Centre in Hyderabad. …

I am once again watching the tennis US Open tournament, the last grand slam of the year. I am a big tennis fan and I watch as much as I can on TV despite the …

Still working on the 3 deals I have been writing about for the whole week. I got the wire transfer for the first sale so I can share the name. It was AttitudeGroup.com and was …

August was a bit slower for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors but it is a month that everybody gets a bit of a break and vacations. Nevertheless about 500 comments were made by …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name PrivateSchools.org that sold for $3,250. DroppedNames.com sold for $3,050. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 12 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction …

Last month Flippa introduced the domain catalog and became a full-blown domain name marketplace. Following a lot of feedback from Flippa sellers the sale success fee has been lowered to 10% commission with no minimum …

Still working on the 3 deals I mentioned here. I was tired after a couple of days of waiting for the buyer of the .info for $3,500 to complete the escrow.com transaction. She went MIA …

Escrow.com, the popular online escrow service, has added a transaction search functionality. The new feature helps you search within all your transactions, open and closed. This is especially helpful when you have 10s of closed …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: Uniregistry launched 3 strings yesterday the 3rd of September: .hiphop, .audio and .juegos (games in Spanish). As expected most good domains …

Still working on the 3 deals I mentioned here. I am still waiting for the buyer to complete the escrow.com transaction. The domain was transferred to Go Daddy but the buyer has not yet changed …

ICANN announced that New gTLD applicants can now get a 9 month extension on executing the Registry Agreement. All applicants (including those that wish to qualify as a .Brand TLD) seeking an extension to the …