Domain Name News

Starting Dot, the registry operator for new generic top-level domains (new gTLD) .BIO, .ARCHI & .SKI, announced that the company experienced greater than projected registration volume with .BIO, which launched on Aug. 21. Over 4,100 …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Sponsored.com that sold for $50,200. Fire.glass sold for $5,000 and became Flippa’s highest new gTLD sale to date. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale …

Minds + Machines Group Limited provided an update on the launch programme of its portfolio of new top-level domains, such as .london, .country and .surf, its registrar sales channel activity and the development of services …

The .London new extension went over 20,000 domain name registrations today as everyday more and more domain names are allocated to those who applied for .london domains during the London Priority Period that ended on …

.CLUB Domains announced that it has sold its 100,000th new domain name today, setting a record as the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD) to sell 100,000 domains and continuing its streak as the best-selling new …

Nominet published a summary that shows that the number of domain name disputes handled by Nominet fell by over 17% in 2013. The summary provides an overview of all the complaints that were filed with the …

Loan.info sold for $18,500 at Sedo after it was previously sold for $6,640 at Namejet back in November 2013. The domain has been auctioned 3 times in the past, selling twice, before being sold at …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced the appointment of Diane Irvine and Shawn Colo to its Board of Directors. “Diane has directly relevant executive and board-level experience with public companies that are leaders in ecommerce …

Radix announced some top companies of the global hosting community as Pioneers of the .host namespace, which rolled in to Landrush on 26th August ‘14. The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On Thusday the 26th of August .HIV entered General Availability and got 127 domain name registrations in the zone files after it’s …

Minds + Machines announced today that it has spent approximately £840,000 (or about $1.4 Million USD) to develop its wholly-own registrar, Minds + Machines Registrar Limited. And that is only payments to an external consultant …

With the launch of the .ngo and .ong domains just around the corner, Rebecca Regan-Sachs, a representative of Public Interest Registry, will lend her expertise in online fundraising and brand identity at this year’s International …

New gTLD registries and registrars have a long way to go trying to make New gTLD domain names available to everyone. There is no consistency and every registrar has it’s own confusing  rules that most …

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. announced the Nominees for the 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS today. Here a few thoughts I had after I read the nominations list: People seem to be tired of awards. Not a lot of votes were …