Domain Name News

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 …

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 …