Domain Name News

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 …

BRS Media Inc. announced that dotFM, the .FM top-level domain registry, has released the latest 2014 ranking of the .FM Top 40 Hits, the top sites and brands under the FM Top-Level Domain. The .FM …

Just found a press release from Sedo that I missed last month. I didn’t find it in any of the other domain blogs so I thought it was worth mentioning. Sedo did a survey that …

Sedo just announced that it sold the domain name Logics.com for $50,000 USD. The buyer is a software company named intellirose from Chicago. The domain Logics.com currently displays a couple of links to a cloud …

Indian Domain Owners Association, (IDOA) the organization of leading domain investors, web entrepreneurs and service in India, is organizing the first ever international domain conference in India, called World Domain Day [WDD.2014] on 24th August 2014 …

DropCatch.com reported today that an internal process which alerts customers of caught and missed domains has been failing sometimes. This means that while the domains were caught by DropCatch.com, the domains have been sitting in a holding …

ICANN issued a warning today regarding some people trying to sell generic top-level domain (gTLD) centificates. These fraudulent certificates claim to protect registrants from something that I don’t quite understand. If you have received such …