Domain Name News

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 …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Internally.com that sold for $3,045 followed by Patricia.net for $2,200. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 5 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa …

On Tuesday 19th August 2014, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Flippa will be hosting an exclusive event for VIP customers at their San Francisco offices. The event intents to inform people about buying and selling …

Uniregistry registrar sent out a press release to promote the New gTLDs that are available to register. The press release talks about the dozens of New gTLDs and mainly promotes Uniregistry’s strings: .guitars, .sexy, .link, …

ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from IPXcess.com Sdn Bhd to Above.com Pty Ltd. due to the non-renewal of IPXcess.com Sdn Bhd’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The affected gTLD registries have …

ICANN today published Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance – Process and Next Steps, a document that describes the process to examine how, from an organizational perspective, ICANN‘s accountability mechanisms should be strengthened to address the …

On the 4th of August, .NYC entered the landrush phase that will remain open until October 3, 2014 at 15:00. .NYC has a pretty strict Nexus policy that only allows people and businesses with a …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: Yesterday, 13th of August, 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general …

Archeo (archeodomains.com) published its 2nd quarter 2014 sales and newsletter: What is a GEO/LOCAL domain? Archeo is focusing on their US related “GEO/LOCAL” domains and how these domains can help businesses. They also included some …