Domain Name News

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .agency, .bargains, .boutique, .cheap and .zone .Agency seems to have some potential, .cheap is on the wrong side, boutique and .zone seems like …

Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain – today launched the first registration phase, known as the Sunrise Period, for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Qualified domain trademark holders …

Frank Schilling made a couple of comments in the past couple of weeks that I think are worth reading if you missed them. The first one was on my post “How To Use: Uniregistry Affiliate …

Jeff Sass, CMO of .Club domains, explains how the new gTLD’s will change the brand marketing landscape and create opportunities for domain investors at DomainFest 2014 held at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in L.A on …

Oversee.net, an innovative technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of websites and mobile apps in travel, retail and consumer finance, today announced that Rook Media, Europe’s largest domain monetization platform, has acquired its …

Escrow4All B.V. has been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD Registry Operators. All new gTLD Registry Operators are required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registration data …

Please be advised that as of 9 April 2014, Homestead Limited dba Namevault.com (“Namevault”) is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) dated 8 August 2013 (“RAA”). Namevault.com was also sent a notice of breach last year. These breaches result from:

ICANN announced that 24 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 225 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the 24 new gTLDs: .college,  .engineering, .media, .university, .gop and …

My blog reached a milestone with 200,000 page views during the weekend. Nearly 85,000 page views have been served in the past 5 months. I started the OnlineDomain.com blog in July 2012 and then stopped …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-6-14 to 4-12-14 were $2.065.279. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

The domain name Election.com was sold for $65,100 in a public auction at Namejet. There were  323 bidders in the auction. There was no reserve. Estibot.com valued the domain at $142,000. The domain was registered …

Google’s Matt Cutts was asked a question at Google Webmasters about buying a domain name: Question: How can we check to see if a domain (bought from a registrar) was previously in trouble with Google? …

I was only after 3 domain names from Donuts 3 new gTLD strings this week that were .farm, .codes and .viajes. I got one and I am happy with that. Judging from the zone files …

In the past week (Apr 6 to Apr 12), 620 (660 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 million ($1.3m last week). Only 209 (248 last week) domains from …