Domain Name News

Declares Record Date of July 25, 2014 and Share Distribution Date of August 1, 2014 Demand Media, Inc.® (NYSE: DMD) today announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has declared the Rightside …

Punto 2012 (using the CentralNic backend) launched 2 of it’s New gTLDs yesterday: .bar and .rest. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were ok for .bar, especially considering the $70 registration fee, …

Sedo is running a .INFO domain name auction in July. The new .INFO auction features 50 generic .INFO domains such as inbox.info and loyal.info that all owned by Sedo’s sister company DomCollect Worldwide Intellectual Property …

I had a problem with an unresponsive buyer for a .us domain I recently sold. The domain was transferred to his registrar but the buyer went missing for 3 days. I contacted escrow.com and asked …

NYLON Media Inc. today debuted its new domain name, NYLON.com, changing its site domain from Nylonmag.com. “NYLON is a brand synonymous with ‘It Girl’ culture.  Owning NYLON.com is the first step in a series of digital …

This week 8 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Today, the 14th of July, Punto 2012 (CentralNic) has 2 of it’s New gTLDs entering general availability: …

.BAR, a domain designed for bars and nightclubs, and .REST, the abbreviation for “restaurant” are launching simultaneously in order to create a space on the Internet specifically for the food and beverage industry. The domains …

I am sure that this week Sedo had a 7-figure domain sale that was kept private. Usually Sedo has about a million worth of sales every week. Last week Sedo sold mm.com for $1.2m and …

In the past week (June 30 to July 6), 564 (614 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.4 million ($2.3m last week). Only 167 (162 last week) domains from …

Namejet released it’s June 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 69 (76 last month) domains for $368,421 ($555,842 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

Over 200 top-tier domain names from the FindYourDomain portfolio will be offered now through September 4, 2014 on NameJet. This is the fifth time that FindYourDomain has partnered to offer a portfolio of premium domains …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was a portfolio of 90 app-related .COMs that sold for $7,500. There were 10 other domains that made it at over 4-figures. Among them were Puddles.com, sold Exclusively at Flippa …

The .Club registry published a video in YouTube to highlight some of the sites that are already using .CLUB, as well as some of the advertising and promotion they’ve done over the past few months. …

Triple report today with over $220,000 of reported sales and 6 5-figure sales! There were 21 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .tools, .industries, .parts, .supply, .supplies, .report, .vision, fish and …