Domain Name News

Yesterday was the day 1 the .luxury New gTLD as it entered General Availability. .Luxury had about 570 domains registered in sunrise (most of them) and landrush before General Availability started. The retail price for …

The Domain Name Industry is a growing network that is immense in scope, made up of organizations, businesses and individuals involved in the business of domain names. In an effort to explain the subject, ICANN …

I thought about posting my 10 latest .com hand registrations but then I thought why not include 10 of my New gTLD hand registrations as well for comparison? I am always looking to buy domains …

Sedo announced the sale of the domain name VitaminC.com for $104,000 USD. The buyer is a company from Nevada, United States called Livon Labs. (The domain is behind whois privacy but if you check the …

ICANN published the final Initial Evaluation (IE) New gTLD results. Out of the initial 1930 New gTLD applications 1783 applications passed the Initial Evaluation. Of course some of the applications were withdrawn before reaching the Initial …

In the past week (May 5 to May 11), 473 (466 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,4 million ($1,2m last week). Only 195 (189 last week) domains from …

Whoisology, offered by Domain Agents, is a free whois tool. Whoisology is a general interest / research tool that is based on whois data. You search whois records using any field you want such as …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 5-5-14 to 5-11-14 were $1.814.616 (last week $1.878.819). A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller …

New gTLD applications for .amazon and related IDNs in Japanese and Chinese filed by Amazon EU S.à r.l. should not proceed. ICANN announced this last night after the GAC advised the ICANN Board in its …

Public Interest Registry (PIR) is the registry that will operate the New gTLD strings .ngo and .ong. The .ngo and .ong domains and the NGO Portal will launch in October 2014. Here’s a quick “How …

It has been a long time since I did a Domain Name Q&A post for the simple reason that I don’t have time for it. There is constantly something to write about and many times …

The Bing Webmaster Blog did a short post about “5 Steps To Improving Search Rankings“. Eric Enge interviewed Duane Forrester that is the Sr. Product Manager at Bing. Here are the 5 steps to improve your …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names and other Internet services, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Summary Financial …

There were 24 domains sold in the first 3 Donuts EAP days for .expert and .works for a total of about $86,600 or more depending on the premium domains. Go Daddy/Afternic sold Room.Guru for $6450 …