Domain Name News

TorrentFreak.com did an article about how FBI is asking the Department of Homeland Security to seize all The Pirate Bay domain names. A Pirate Bay-related Freedom of Information request was sent to Homeland Security’s National …

In the past week (July 21 to July 27), 569 (506 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 million ($1m last week). Only 179 (162 last week) domains from …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Task.io that sold for $5,550. This week’s top Flippa sales includes 1 domain name portfolio. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 5 domains of this …

On 15 September 2014, EURid will launch its new registration platform. Thereafter, newly registered .eu domain names will no longer expire at the end of the month but rather at the end of their registration …

Last week I wrote about a Go Daddy customer that was complaining that he registered 2 .xyz domains in June and Go Daddy removed the 2 domains from his account in July and registered the …

Sedo today announced the results of its First Half 2014 Domain Market Study. An infographic depicting findings from the study is available at http://bit.ly/1rMCO82. During the first six months of 2014, Sedo powered 16,216 transactions …

It seems that a lot of people are confused by some of the DomainGang.com comedy posts and the proof is that a fake news article announcing the sale of the domain name Jesus.Saves for $2.4 …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: Yesterday 30th of July 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general …

I haven’t done this post since May and since then ICANN has announced that 87 New gTLDs have been delegated for a total of 346 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important …

ICANN published today the latest Community Priority Evaluation results. New gTLD Applicant Interlink Co., Ltd. prevailed in a community priority evaluation for the New gTLD .Osaka getting 15 out of the maximum 16 points. Osaka …

Last month, Google announced it is getting into the domain name registration business through Google Domains and offered a form to sign up to be invited. Like countless other I submitted the form but I …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cannot be considered “property,” and thus cannot be …

Key-Systems GmbH based in Germany will support the dotHIV initiative with a fundraising for the start of .hiv. The domain registrar will donate 30 Euro (about $40) to the dotHIV association for each of the …

Like every month I go through my domains to see what to renew and what not to. This month I renewed almost 1,000 domains and dropped 130 of them. So I dropped about 11.5% of …