Domain Name News

SedoMLS Network Now Bringing 17 Million Premium Domains to Third Largest Registrar’s Leading Reseller Channel. Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global providers of …

Please be advised that as of 14 April 2014, Namebay SAM (“Namebay”) is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) dated 23 September 2009 (“RAA”). These breaches result from: 1.   Failure to take reasonable steps to investigate claimed Whois inaccuracies, as required by Section 3.7.8 of the RAA; 2.   Failure to maintain registration records as required by Section 3.4.2 of the RAA; and 3.   Failure to make registration records available upon request by ICANN, as required by Section 3.4.3 of the RAA. Please refer to the attachment for details regarding these breaches. In addition, Namebay has been deemed noncompliant in the following areas: 1. Failure to notify ICANN of a change to its contact information, as required by Section 5.11 of the RAA; 2. Failure to provide a 

NameJet partners with Rightside Registry to offer these 20 .DANCE premium domain names like music.dance and 1.dance. Each of the domains are priced with low reserves and will sell. The auction starts on the 16th …

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 …