Domain Name News

I guess you all have heard by now about the new backorder service that was launched by HugeDomains.com that is called DropCatch.com. I was bidding for the domain name Bespoke.com but stopped at about $18,000. …

In just a few hours I got 2 different emails from people or companies trying to sell me .uno and .xyz New gTLD domains. That is excluding all the registrars that are sending me 10s …

TorrentFreak reported that a student from Denmark filed and won a complaint against James McAvoy of Bristol, UK, “who appears to be a prolific purchaser of domains” as Torrent Freak says, for the domain name …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking one or more providers to assist ICANN in the development, operation, and maintenance of the WHOIS Online Accuracy Reporting System. Every year, millions of …

I can confirm that some DomainNameSales.com emails are caught by spam filters. Sure it depends on individual settings and the the service that each buyer is using but it is happening. I don’t know how …

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 Of course some of the applications were withdrawn before reaching the Initial …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 …