Domain Name News

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 …

Yesterday 15th of July the .Wien new domain name extension entered general availability. Vienna (Wien in German) is the capital and largest city of Austria. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were …

The new .scot top level internet domain launched today giving individuals and organisations the chance to express their pride in Scotland online. People can now, for the first time, choose to use a .scot web …

Sedo just announced that it sold the domain name gca.com for $90,000 USD. The buyer is not yet known as whois has not yet been updated and shows Sedo as the owner. The domain gca.com …

SLAM Strategy, a digital strategy company from Adelaide Australia, published a social media report today that focused on DotBrand New gTLD applicants. The study focused on 647 brands that applied for ICANN gTLDs to look …

I was doing some quarterly taxes and I found by accident that Go Daddy owes me some money once again. $150 this time. Do you remember how I found out that Go Daddy was owning …