Domain Name News

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. …

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, …