Domain Name News

Heritage Auctions (HA), one of the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer, started it’s third domain name auction. The auction is open for internet bidding for the next 14 days and features 84 premium .com and New …

.Global domains had a great auction at ICANN 50 but that didn’t continue to the extended auction at Namejet. No .Global domains were sold at the namejet extended auction because no domain reached it’s reserve. …

Go Daddy run a .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol New gTLD premium auction 3 weeks ago that sold 9 domains. The domains were sold by their registry which is Rightside. A reader complained the other day …

Donuts launched .Services, that entered the real (no-EAP) General Availability, yesterday Wednesday, July 9th 2014. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were ok. .Services had 4,584 domain registrations. That is about what .photos …

Following a public consultation, the Minister of Business and Growth has decided to extend DIFO’s permission to be registry for the .dk domain names. Since 1999, Danish Internet Forum (DIFO) has had the license to …

So far 12 registries have requested ICANN to allowed to sell 2-character New gTLD domains names: .DEALS, XN–FJQ720A, .CITY, .XYZ, .COLLEGE, .GOP, .TRADE, .WEBCAM, .BID, .HEALTHCARE, .WORLD, .BAND. ICANN opened a comment period yesterday 8 …

Uniregistry launched .Christmas and .BlackFriday yesterday Thusday, July 8th 2014. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were not very impressive. .Christmas had 419 domain registrations and .BlackFriday 401 registrations. These numbers include …

TheRegister did an article yesterday exposing allegations of bizarre and potentially illegal conduct within the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The Register obtained access to an internal report indicating reasonable grounds to suspect serious misconduct …

ICANN decided, at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors that was held on 26 June 2014 in London England (ICANN 50), the location of the ICANN 52 meeting to be in Marrakech, …

TechCrunch.com did an article today on how the “online portfolio service Format has been trying to acquire the domain name, format.com, for the past three years. On Monday they announced the purchase as well as a rebranding …

The total number of .eu registrations grew by 2.2% in Q1 2014, according to the progress report released today by the .eu registry EURid. “This relatively high growth rate is thanks, in part, to our …

ICANN decided, at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors that was held on 26 June 2014 in London England, the redelegation of the .GW domain representing Guinea-Bissau. Kuo-Wei Wu introduced the agenda …

I am getting a lot of .us domain name offers lately. They started coming the week before the 4th of July and they keep coming until today. I have gotten 7 offers for .us domains …

Hexonet suspended one of my domains after their 2013 RAA verification email went straight to spam. I wrote a few months back about the Enom and Tucows problem that was that they didn’t use their …