Domain Name News

Earlier this week .Vegas CFO Dusty Trevino and CTO Sky Trevino sat down with Nancy Byrne at the Las Vegas City Hall for a Google+ Hangout to talk top level domains. In this quick video …

Verisign published a blog post called “Website Usage Analysis in the New gTLDs” by Andy Simpson featuring an analysis of all second-level domains registered in new gTLDs according to published zone files on June 29, …

Archeo, Inc., a division of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced the launch of its blog, which is aimed at helping new businesses navigate how to build their brands online. “Acquiring the right domain is …

Tucows Inc. today reported strong financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Elliot Noss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tucows Inc. said that “We continue to see steady performance from our Domains …

Donuts, a New gTLD registry with more than 200 strings already released or coming soon, posted an article on it’s official blog with the title “The Importance of Semantics and Affinity, and the Meaninglessness of …

The New gTLD Auction Schedule is updated as of 11 August 2014. This version is updated to reflect the 2015 Auction Dates for January, February, and March. Also reflected is the finalization of the Name …

ICANN released a new IANA Functions Infographic which explains how the core IANA functions allow users like you to access the Internet. The revised infographic incorporates feedback from the community.

VeriSign, Inc. today announced five million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 276 million worldwide across all top-level domains …

I was informed by a reader that there was a security breach today at the Minds + Machines registrar. An email was sent at approximately 12:00 UTC on August 11, 2014 from one of the …

July was another great month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors. About 600 comments were made by readers. The most popular subject by far was Go Daddy with the number 1 post and …

This week 4 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 13th 2014: .Tax, …

Afilias announced that August 6, 2014, is the sunrise start date for its newest generic top-level domain (gTLD): .ORGANIC. The .ORGANIC domain will be exclusively for organic goods and services providers that are certified or …

ICANN granted data retention waiver to 4 European registrars: MAILCLUB SAS 1API GmbH ingenit GmbH & Co. KG Registry Gate GmbH The 4 registrars submitted to ICANN a Registrar Data Retention Waiver Request pursuant to …

In the past week (July 28 to August 3), 632 (569 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 million ($1.9m last week). Only 158 (179 last week) domains from …