Domain Name News

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 …

CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), the owner and manager of an internet distribution platform which derives a revenue share from sales of internet domain names into markets across the world, today announces its audited results for the …

.Club general availability started today. .Club domain name registrations jumped from 370 yesterday to 25,781 registrations today adding 25,411 domain names in the first few hours of general availability. This was the second best New …

.Club general availability started today. .Club was and still is one of my favorite new gtlds but I was not able to register any so far. It seems that all the good one word .club …

I-REGISTRY Ltd., the London company that runs the .Rich New gTLD, send out a press release today in attempt to reboot it’s New gTLD. .Rich launched in April 10th and only got 21 sunrise registrations. …

Architelos announced a flat rate NameSentry pricing for new gTLDs today: Architelos, Inc., the leading provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, announced a flat rate pricing for its NameSentry automated abuse …

Founded in October 2011 in Paris, Starting Dot is a new registry business developing a portfolio of 4 new Top Level Domain names (TLDs) dedicated to major sectors: .SKI, .IMMO (in contention), .ARCHI and .BIO. …

Here is a new Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions Infographic. This new Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) guide explains how these core functions allow you and everyone around the globe to utilize …

The .club registry has partnered with Sedo to offer their reserved premium .club domain names. Sedo is currently offering 6654 .club domains. I visited a few of the description pages at Sedo and all description …

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for .BID, .TRADE, .WEBCAM and some 54 other Top Level Domains, has signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Registrars are the only way through which end-users of domain names …