Domain Name News

While domain name auctions seem to be working fine for many years now with various auction houses auctioning daily expired and dropped domains, I think there is a problem with premium domain name auctions such …

CentralNic Group PLC said Monday that it had launched a new website, DOMAIN.LUXURY, for the sale of new domain names ending in .luxury through its subsidiary TLD Registrar Solutions. CentralNic chief executive Ben Crawford said: …

Sedo just announced the sale of the domain name intensity.com for $57,000 USD. The domain name was sold by the company WEBVENTURER LLP from London, UK. The domain is now registered with Go Daddy and …

In the past week (Apr 28 to May 4), 466 (444 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,2 million ($1,1m last week). Only 189 (195 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-28-14 to 5-04-14 were $1.878.819. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

I get hundreds of emails every day and most a lot of them are spam as you all know. I got one email yesterday that my spam filter did not mark as spam. The subject …

Google’s Matt Cutts was asked a question at Google Webmasters about common SEO myths: Question: What are some of the biggest SEO myths you see still being repeated (either at conferences, or in blogs etc.) …

The .wiki registry published a guide regarding the .wiki New gTLD landrush. The .wiki Sunrise phase ended this week. On May 8th, .wiki will enter Landrush, the phase in which motivated buyers can apply for …

ICANN has updated the Auction Schedule for New gTLD applicants with strings in contention sets. Here are the auction dates for some of the more important New gTLDs: .Buy, .Online, .Live: 9 July 2014 .Ltd, …

The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) Board of Directors has submitted input to the ICANN consultation on Principles & Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA’s Stewardship …

Flippa announced that they have made some changes to payment methods. Flippa says that these changes increase user protection while speeding up the post-auction transaction. The supported payment methods on Flippa are now only Escrow …

Revenue ex-TAC of $87.4 Million and Adjusted EBITDA of $11.5 Million Registrar Revenue Increases 11% Year-over-Year to $39.1 Million 13 New gTLDs Launched and 29 New gTLD Registry Operator Agreements Signed to Date SANTA MONICA, …

ICANN announced that 34 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 259 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the 34 new gTLDs: .FITNESS, .FINANCE, .MOSCOW, .TAX, .BLACKFRIDAY, .PARIS …

This week, the City of New York and Neustar launched the first phase of availability for the new .nyc web address. The “Sunrise” phase gives NYC businesses with trademarks first priority in claiming their .nyc …