Domain Name News

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 …

The domain name Diet.Expert was sold for about $7,500 on the 2nd day of Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) pricing. This price includes a $3,000 day 2 EAP fee and the registration fee that for …

.Club had one of the best first days of all New gTLDs up until now. Just a few hours after general availability it had 25,781 registrations including sunrise and landrush domains. But this success was …

I got email from Pool.com today stating that Pool has started offering pre-orders for New gTLD domain names that enter the general availability phase: By popular request, Pool.com is now using its domain acquisition engine …

The Sedo .CO.UK domain name auction ended yesterday and it was not pretty. Only 7 domain names were sold for a total of 5982 GBP + $109 (a total of about $10,174). The domains in …

ICANN has formally signed a contract giving domain addresses ending in .cymru and .wales the go-ahead. The agreement means that businesses and consumers can acquire a .cymru or .wales domain name allowing them to demonstrate …

Google’s Matt Cutts was asked a question at Google Webmasters about the importance of backlinks in Google ranking: Question:Google changed the search engine market in the ’90s by evaluating a website’s backlinks instead of just …

Rolex bought 27 domain names on the 4th day of the Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) for the New gTLD .watch last week. Of course .watch would be top priority for a watch company such …

What is new at Flippa in 2014? Here is an update from Flippa’s general manager Nick Kenn: The first quarter of 2014 is already behind us, so here’s a wrap up of what we’ve been doing …

An ICANN Independent Review Panel has issued a decision [PDF, 7.80 MB] that ICANN should hold off from further processing of ZA Central Registry’s (ZACR) application for the .AFRICA top-level domain (TLD) for the time …

Here is the email I got from Rick Schwartz today: Morning Folks!! I will keep it brief. Early Bird deeply discounted tickets for the Miami Beach show are now on sale! Early Bird tickets are …

Namejet released it’s April 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 84 (74 last month) domains for $463,758 ($404,498 last month) in April 2014. The report includes a domain name I bought: dnshost.com for $2,598. …