Domain Name News

I got an email today that looked a bit suspicious at first glance. The email was send by a Gmail address (snapnamez@gmail.com) and the name was listed as “Domain Auction”. The subject was “LLLL Premium …

Global digital performance-based marketing company Matomy Media Group today announced that it has acquired a majority ownership position in the Munich-based direct navigation search company Team Internet AG. As part of the deal, Matomy will …

Google opened it’s own registrar and will probably start offering domain names from $12. Google launched Google Domains that is currently in Invite-Only Beta testing. This is how Google describes domain names and what it’s …

More than 3,300 people from around the world have registered for ICANN’s 50th meeting in London, making it the largest in the organization’s history. “Today is a great day for advancement of the multistakeholder model …

The domain name MM.com was sold for $1.2 million at Sedo today. The domain was owned by Minnesota MicroNet, an Internet Service Provider, since at least 1995. The domain mm.com was registered back in 1994. …

DropCatch.com, one of the newest domain name backordering service, had some backorder issues over the weekend. It seems to be fixed now. Here is their announcement: Hey folks, It looks like we had some problems …

Namescout announced today some important changes to their domain name management. Apart from introducing an advanced website domain management system some of the new features include an option to cancel a domain whenever you want …

The Telegragh posted an article today stating that Dot-com will lose dominance by 2020. “By the end of the decade, .com will no longer be the dominant web address ending, experts predict.” According to NetNames’ …

Wales’ First Minister, Carwyn Jones, announced at ICANN London today that the Welsh Government plans to begin a switch of its official internet address from .gov.uk to .cymru and .wales from next year. The Welsh …

In the past week (June 9 to June 15), 520 (633 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1,1m last week). Only 177 (138 last week) domains from …

Last week, Flippa announced that you can now negotiate on ANY unsold auction, not just the auctions you were bidding on. This had a big impact in Flippa sales this week, with over $40,000 worth …

Namejet was running a .Build New gTLD “premium” domain auction for the past 10 days. I say “premium” because this is one of the New gTLDs that don’t make any sense to me. New gTLDs …

Radix, a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Registry from Asia, is launching the .press gTLD for the global journalism, PR, media and publishing community. .press domains will be available starting 24th June, 2014. The …

Go Daddy .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol New gTLD premium auction sold 9 domains. The domains were sold by their registry which is Rightside. The auction included 25 domains and the highest bid was for e.ninja …