Domain Name News

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 …

Namejet released it’s July 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 82 (69 last month) domains for $509,926 ($368,421 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name RHK.com that sold for $9,975. This week’s top Flippa sales includes 3 domain name portfolios of .info, .xyz and .co domains. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method …

Google announced that it gives better ranking to strong security. So if your website is serving web pages over HTTPS and using SSL certificates you will have an advantage. Here are some basic tips to …

Flippa introduced a new feature yesterday that is the Domain Catalog. Flippa’s Domains Catalog is a brand new section of the marketplace, entirely different from the auction listings that all Flippa users can list their …

Give your favourite .eu website the chance to win an online media package worth 5 000 EUR in the .eu Web Awards, hosted by the .eu registry EURid. The .eu Awards is an online competition …

Demand Media and Rightside reported today the second quarter 2014 results. Registrar revenue grew 13% year-over-year, primarily due to growth in domain name registrations as well as higher Name.com domains under management. Owned & Operated …