Domain Name News

In the past week (June 2 to June 8), 633 (482 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,1 million ($1,1m last week). Only 138 (112 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 6-2-14 to 6-8-14 were $1.323.567 (last week $2.109.201). A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller …

Namejet released it’s May 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 76 (84 last month) domains for $555,842 ($463,758 last month) in May. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I …

There were 15 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .condos, .properties, .tienda, and .maison for a total of about $27,000 or more including the premium domains. Sedo sold the domain name …

Flippa announced a change to the the way Flippa works. As of today, you can negotiate with a seller to buy anything that was listed for auction that didn’t find a buyer. Previously, when an auction …

Radix, a new gTLD registry from Asia, announced the launch timeline for .host, starting with the opening of their Pioneer Program which starts today. The Sunrise phase will start June 24 and last for 60 days. …

I have had my fair share of Go Daddy “Domain Buy Service” offers that cost $69.99 per domain, plus commission. And I also had a few Certified Offers through Network Solutions that cost $19 per …

Within 24 hours of opening for registration, new, short .uk web domains topped the sales charts. More than 50,000 domains were registered, making this one of the fastest selling new domain releases on record, and …

Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines, continues his series of in-depth talks with leading figures from the domain name industry with this video interview of Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos, filmed recently at …

Moniker’s migration to a new system has caused a lot of problems to all it’s users. Today Moniker’s CEO Bonnie Wittenburg sent a message but I don’t see how this is any help. It has …

I got a cryptic support response from Go Daddy today. The subject was “Premium GLTD auction – Correction”. I didn’t create the support ticket so I am not sure what this means: You may have …

Feedly, an RSS news aggregator, has been down for several hours today following a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). It appears that criminals are attacking feedly trying to extort money to make it stop. …

From yesterday, new, short .uk web domains are available alongside .co.uk for the first time ever, with British icon and tech enthusiast Stephen Fry the first person to make the switch. As one of the …

On Friday, Rick Schwartz featured an Interview with Daniel Negari that was supposed to address the free .xyz registrations that Network Solutions has been giving to some .com owners since the .xyz General Availability without …