Domain Name News

GoDaddy announced today that it has acquired Mad Mimi, which helps small businesses connect with customers through simple, beautiful and effective email marketing. Mad Mimi’s easy-to-use applications, empathetic and knowledgeable customer care, and robust technology …

As described in the 14 August 2014 posting of the Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps, four respected individuals with backgrounds in academia, governmental relations, global insight, and the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC), will …

A WebmasterWorld thread called “Accidentally let domain expire for a day: Now site’s gone from Google. Temporary or permanent?” was started by a domain name owner and webmaster that let a domain name expire for …

Flippa introduced it’s brand new section, “Starter Sites”, that is designed to showcase the best newly created websites on Flippa. All Starter Sites are under 3 months old and need a new owner to grow …

ICANN is posting for public comment proposed Bylaws revisions that would incorporate a higher voting threshold for the Board to determine not act consistently with the advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee. Currently, the Bylaws …

The ICANN 2014 Nominating Committee (NomCom) has completed its selections for six leadership positions within ICANN, listed below for each ICANN body, in alphabetical order by family name. Also the Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) has …

RetailMeNot, Inc. registered 849 .codes domain names in Sunrise without owning any of the corresponding trademarks. The domains were all registered at the 101Domain registrar. The list includes many keyword domains as well as trademark …

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARD Nominations for 2014 are now open by sending the following form to nominations@targetedtraffic.com. Nominations will remain open until Friday, August 22nd at 6 P.M. EDT. Only those persons or companies that receive 3 …

DNFCollege TERM 3 started today at the always popular domain name forum DNForum.com owned by Adam Dicker. The course is free and you can sign up here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/domaincollege/ A lot of domain name related material …

ARI Registry Services, an Australian company offering New gTLD registry services, published a blog article criticizing the purchase of the domain name racing.com for $500,000+. The domain name racing.com was bought by Australian south east …

Donuts is doing some direct end-user promotion of it’s new top level domains (TLDs) this week by exhibiting at the Womens Wear Daily Magic (WWDMAGIC) 2014 fashion event that takes place in Las Vegas. The …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Donuts enters EAP General Availability for the following 4 New gTLDs on Wednesday, August 20th 2014: .Discount, …

The numeric domains for Sedo’s numeric auction have been selected from sellers submissions. The Numeric Auction will start on September 3rd and run through September 10th. The list includes a wide variety of domain name …

In the past week (August 4 to August 10), 527 (632 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 million ($1.7m last week). Only 157 (158 last week) domains from …