Domain Name News

The .nz registry is following the footsteps of Nominet, the .uk registry, offering shorter .nz (New Zealand) ccTLD domain names. From 1pm, 30 September 2014, ‘second level’ domains like the .co in ‘.co.nz’ and the …

This is time for another Moniker update. The past 2 months have been crazy. I have made 8 posts, including this one, describing what have been a Moniker system disaster. Before a couple of days …

This week 9 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. On the 22nd of July .Tokyo enters general availability. This is one of the big geo New …

The registrar BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES INC. (dba NameJuice.com) that has been behind the “Domain Registry of America”  (DRoA) or “Domain Renewal Group” scam was suspended by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) on the 19th of July 2014. Brandon Gray’s ability to create new Registered Names or initiate …

In the past week (July 7 to July 13), 570 (564 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5 million ($2.4m last week). Only 188 (167 last week) domains from …

In the past 4 months I have been refunded $3,000 from Go Daddy from failed New gTLD EAP pre-orders. I was refunded $2,850 back in March and $150 just a couple of days ago. The …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name OAR.com that sold for $28,500. AZU.com sold for $18,000 and on yet another great .info sale the domain Shares.info was sold for $6,350. There were …

8 New gTLDs launched this past week. Donuts had 4 (.Capital, .Engineering, .Exchange and .Gripe.) that did pretty bad. And the other 3 Punto 2012’s (CentralNic) .bar and .rest,  and Rightside Registry’s .moda didn’t do much …

It seems that the .Scot registry doesn’t know about domain name collision lists and other ICANN rules concerning new domain name extensions. 3 of the 38 pioneer domain names and websites that were announced are …

Victory Electronic Cigarettes Corporation, today announced that it has officially changed its corporate name and entity to the Electronic Cigarettes International Group, Ltd. (ECIG). The company name change, which is effective immediately, coincides with the …

Sedo is running a rather interesting email campaign promoting the thousands of .club domains it has on it’s platform. They are contacting Sedo users that have or had “club” related domains for sale in their …

A few months back on a post called “Post Your Best New gTLD Domain Name“, that has over 300 comments, a reader claimed that he had an offer for his domain name Trade.Domains for $80,000 …

I got this email from a reader yesterday complaining about 4 reserved domain names in .casa, .horse, or .cooking during the Minds + Machines Priority Reservation Phase. The reader says that the 4 domains he …

Yesterday 16th of July 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability: .Capital, .Engineering, .Exchange and .Gripe. The first day, or rather first hours, registration …