Domain Name News

In the past week (May 26 to June 1), 482 (591 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,1 million ($1,1m last week). Only 112 (189 last week) domains from …

Starting Dot announced that the .BIO New gTLD was delegated on June 2, 2014 and the proposed Sunrise date to ICANN is as early as June 11, 2014, at 10:00 UTC. Here is the announcement:

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners, one of the largest portfolio applicants for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), is pleased to announce Domain Venture Partners’ acquisition of the .RACING and …

Last month I wrote how a domaining company Future Media Architects (FMA) dropped 2,737 3-letter .info domain names. I now checked the 17,576 three letter .biz combinations and found that FMA has dropped almost all …

GoDaddy Auctions published it’s domain market report. Go Daddy Auctions sold 45,852 domains in May. It sold 42,480 domains in April. The most expensive domains sold were steamengine.com for $38,000 and filmesonline.com for $28,000. Here are …

On 4 June 2014 ICANN through its authorized auction services provider, Power Auctions LLC, completed the first auction to resolve a contention set for a new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) string. Contention sets are groups …

Daniel Negari has tried to lie and deceive everybody and climb his way up to the top spot of New gTLDs. Well guess what Daniel? You failed. .XYZ is down at the 34th place of …

Moniker is back up after being down for maintenance. I just logged into my account only to find more domains that what I had before. I have now 30 more domains since yesterday and that …

I visited Moniker looking for one of my domains that is missing only to find this message below. Moniker is closed for maintenance until 9:00 am (EDT). I have made 2 post so far with …

.XYZ entered general availability yesterday and after the first few hours it had reached 14,924 registrations. It now ranks 15th among New gTLDs, just below .directory. That is hardly the performance expected from the NEXT …

Yesterday I made a post about a couple of Moniker problems I had. The post was triggered by an email invoice I got for a domain name renewal. I had let the domain expire of …

There were 22 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .rentals, .vacations, .flights, .cruises and .villas  for a total of about $50,000 or more including the premium domains. The .dance auction at …

I tried to warn everybody on Thursday that the new Moniker will be a huge problem but you can never prepare enough for a disaster. Today my problems began. Even though I had renew any …

In the past week (May 19 to May 25), 591 (491 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,1 million ($1m last week). Only 189 (200 last week) domains from …