Domain Name News

DropCatch.com announced today that it has opened it’s domain name backordering API to it’s customers. DropCatch.com has exposed 2 API functions so that you can programmatically backorder domains. This feature makes use of NameBright.com API …

The first World Domain Day conference started on Sunday the 24th August at the Avasa Hotel, High Tech City, Hyderbad, India and ends today but Snapnames auction is under way and ends tomorrow. WDD (World …

On 14 August ICANN posted the Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance: Process and Next Steps. Since posting, ICANN received some questions that are compiled here together with items perhaps useful to be addressed for the …

.HIV New gTLD enters general availability today with a registration/renewal fee of about $200 or more and with a charity model I just don’t understand how it will work. .HIV registration fees vary wildly depending …

This weekend New gTLDs reached 2 million domain name registrations as anyone can see at ntldstats.com. 2,012,434 domains to be exact was the first number above the 2 million mark. But should anybody care about …

The European Domain Centre posted today an Expert Roundup about “What’s the future for the new gTLDs?”. New gTLDs reached 2 million registrations yesterday and Christopher Hofman asked 12 domain name experts such as Frank …

Donuts, a New gTLD registry with more than 50 New gTLDs already released, is performing scheduled maintenance today. The time frame for the maintenance is as follows: August 25, 2014, 21 :00 – 22:30 GMT …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 7 New gTLDs enter a landrush phase. .HIV also enters general availability on the 26th of …

In the past week (August 11 to August 17), 502 (527 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 million ($1.6m last week). Only 149 (158 last week) domains from …

The first World Domain Day conference starts this Sunday the 24th August at the Avasa Hotel, High Tech City, Hyderbad, India. WDD (World Domain Day) is an international event for the promotion of domain names …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name FileBackup.com that sold for $11,300 after 3700 views and 79 bids. It was the buyer’s second attempt to sell the domain at Flippa and it …

ICANN has opened a comment period to obtain community input on the proposed amendments to the Registry Agreements of several registry operators: .SOHU, .IMMO, .SAARLAND, .CLUB. The proposals requess the release of all two-character ASCII …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On Monday the 18th of August .Career entered General Availability and got 2,838 domain name registrations in the zone files after …

From 15 September, Nominet will begin emailing registrants with rights to a short .uk domain under the .uk 5-year reservation mechanism.  This step is part of a wider programme of communication and outreach committed to as …