Domain Name News

I got an email today from Moniker announcing some updates that are coming soon. They promise a transformation with a new website that “better caters to your needs and new tools to manage and grow …

The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions held last week for .deals, .garden, .property and .yoga, the Company has secured the uncontested application rights …

The .club registry released an ad called “Invest in a great Domain Name!”. The ad was released last week and according to The Frager factor it is now being shown on TV. The ad description …

Deadline coming up in a week: “Call for Public Input: Draft Proposal, Based on Initial Community Feedback, of the Principles and Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA‘s Stewardship of the …

The domain name realestate.agency was purchased by someone from Texas on the 3rd day of Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) pricing. The domain was registered at Enom for about $4,800. This price includes a $1,200 …

General availability for the New gTLD .build starts today and anyone that cares about domaining should stay away. You should not support the same people that steal from domainers. Plan Bee, LLC, the .build registry, …

GoDaddy announced that it is now offering localized products and support in 14 new languages. New countries served with this expansion include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, …

An attempt to grab the domain name Rock.co.uk using a DRS complaint, the equivalent to UDRP for .co.uk domains, was denied as the Complainant failed to prove that it had rights to a mark and …

If you’ve been following .CLUB you probably know that they are now in the “Land Rush” period which began on April 1, 2014 and which ends on May 1, 2014.  But what is a “Land …

DotAsia Organisation, registry operator of the ‘.Asia’ top-level-domain, announced that it has partnered with NameJet.com and RightOfTheDot.com to auction a series of never-before-released premium numeric domain names. Through these auctions, approximately 150 three and four …

Afternic announced that its distribution in Russian Federation has doubled to cover up to 85% of end-user demand for domain names. Newly launched partnerships with strategic registrars, including Reg.ru, Webnames.ru, and Imena.ua help bring high-quality …

In the past week (Apr 14 to Apr 20), 513 (620 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.3m last week). Only 153 (209 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-13-14 to 4-20-14 were $1.982.736. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

Five months ago, ICANN launched the new WHOIS website (whois.icann.org), a one-stop shop for questions and information about everything WHOIS, the Internet’s record system of domain registration data. This new portal was just the first …