Domain Name News

The Trademark Clearinghouse has published it’s latest stats. So far 31,866 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of the 28th of July 2014. The number of marks were 30,916 on the 19th …

Following recent press comment, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the publicly quoted owner and operator of Internet top-level domains, announced that its client, Celebrate Broadway, Inc., has secured the sole application status for .broadway. …

This is how you do marketing in a big city for a geo New gTLD like .London. You target the most popular transportation service. And in this case it is the London Underground. That and …

Trefis.com did an article today about the VeriSign shares after the VeriSign Q2 2014 report. Shares of VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) rose over 10% on July 25, 2014 after the company reported strong profit figures in the second …

As you may have heard Go Daddy has discontinued the email support for some months now. They only use live chat and phone support now. They thought that email support was too slow. And it …

This week 4 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. This is a slow week and it might be because of the summer vacations… All new domain …

GoDaddy and Microsoft today announced a long-term strategic partnership to offer Microsoft Office 365 from GoDaddy as its exclusive core business-class email and productivity service for small businesses in India. Microsoft Office 365 offered through …

In the past week (July 14 to July 20), 506 (570 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.5m last week). Only 162 (188 last week) domains from …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), reported financial results for the second quarter of 2014. VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $250 million for the second quarter of 2014, up 4.6 percent from the same …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Mortgages.info that sold for $14,095 on yet another great .info sale. This week’s top Flippa sales include 3 domain name portfolios. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method …

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), today announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2014. Revenue increased 8% to $237.5 million compared to the 2nd quarter of 2013 but net income decreased 15% to $36.8 million. …

Flippa is running a 2-for-1 domain listings offer until August. From now until August 1st, when you pay for and launch any domain auction, you’ll receive a special link to redeem 9 credits — which …

I completely forgot about the blog’s anniversary. I started OnlineDomain.com 2 years ago on the 11th of July 2012. The anniversary coincides with the 1500th post that was made yesterday, almost 300,000 views and with …

Kathy Nielsen, VP of Business Development for new gTLDs at Sedo.com, did an article on Wired debating if the U.S. is lagging behind China in domain names. My main concern about this article is that a lot …