Domain Name News

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 …

Flippa announced today that they have introduced many new features that makes it easier to find what websites and domain names you’re looking for. With the new Site Type filter, you can narrow down your …

Sedo just announced that it sold the domain name Chat.fr for 99,999 Euro or $133,496 USD. Just 2 days ago Chat.de was sold again at Sedo for 65,000 Euro ($86,988). The buyer is Xedoc Holding, SAfrom Luxemburg. …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: Yesterday 6th of August 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general …

I just discovered an old video that explains New gTLDs. The video was released by FairWinds Partners on beyondthedot.com that was just updated today. The youtube.com description is: So, you want to learn about what’s …

I got an email with the subject “Transfer Request Authorization from Uniregistrar Corp” asking me to confirm the transfer of my domain name Test.biz to Uniregistrar. The request was made by someone called Ryan with …

TLD Registry is celebrating yesterday’s Google announcement of a long-awaited and highly anticipated change that took place at Gmail: The “client-side” implementation of non-Latin, character-based email. While the world’s relevant standards-setting body, the Internet Engineering …

FairWinds Partners released today the newly updated online resource at beyondthedot.com to help familiarize businesses and consumers with new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). “Clients have told us that the Beyond the Dot site a great …

GMO Registry announced the opening of the .yokohama Landrush Priority Registration period. Today marks the first time that .yokohama will be available to the general public for registration. .yokohama is a domain representing the City …