Domain Name News

I received an email from a reader called Gao Tianyong from Beijing describing his horror story dealing with the .ng registry. .NG is the ccTLD for Nigeria. The reader is not a native English speaker …

Welsh businesses and individuals can stand out from the online crowd now that .cymru and .wales have got the official go-ahead. For those keen to promote their association with Brand Wales, Nominet is publishing the …

I got an email from 101domain.com saying that the .berlin registry ended early the .BERLIN promotion that was to run until Friday June 20th, 2014. According to the dotBERLIN registry, demand was exceedingly above their …

It seems that all Namejet .XYZ auctions have been cancelled. I checked today and all auctions display this message “We’re sorry, this auction was cancelled.” and the high bid is set to $0. Back in …

On July 1, Neustar will become one of the first country-code top-level domains to implement the usTLD Rapid Suspension Procedure (“usRS”). Although this new mechanism has been introduced with the new generic top-level domains approved …

Go Daddy just released it’s new TV ad featuring New gTLD domain names and having the domain name Theresa.Photography as an example. The TV ad features many New gTLD strings such as .guru, .expert, .ninja, …

I wrote a post on Monday about the .berlin registry offering free .berlin domain names. It is not mandatory for the registrars to offer .berlin domains for free so you can see different prices. Registrars …

Like every month I go through my domains to see what to renew and what not to. This month I dropped the most domains I have ever dropped. I dropped 193 domains out of the …

The .BID & .TRADE Premium auction ended today at Sedo. The auction had 35 .bid and .trade New gTLD domains that all had a 1,000 – 4,999 USD reserve that was not reached. So no …

Radix, the .website registry, announced .Website’s launch timeline. Radix calls .website “The first true alternative to .com hits the market this summer.”. It launches into Sunrise on June 24, 2014. .Eebsite Landrush starts on Aug. …

Norway’s .NO domain is available for registration to private individuals as of today, June 17 2014. Starting on 17 June, everyone in Norway can register their own domain name directly within .no. On this date …

The .BID & .TRADE Premium auction ends tomorrow at Sedo. The auction has 35 .bid and .trade New gTLD domains that all have a 1,000 – 4,999 USD reserve. So far 9 domains have bids …

Francois Carrillo, that is behind the popular domaining.com domain news aggregator, launched today his new project Lend.Me. At Lend.me you can use domain names as collateral to secure short term loans. Francois Carrillo said, “Four …

Colin Campbell, CEO of .Club, made a comment this week over at Rick Schwartz’s Blog. The comment was made in the post “The Walls of Jericho Fall on .xyz“. Apparently one of Colin Campbell’s comments in …