Domain Name News

This is a collection of 10 articles from mainly domain name related blogs and publications covering the effect of the Heartbleed bug on registrars, registries, ICANN, and pretty much all the websites we use everyday. …

The Qualified Launch Program (QLP) Addendum is available for new gTLD registry operators as of 10 April 2014. The QLP Addendum allows a registry operator to register up to 100 domain names to third parties …

The .guru New gTLD was the first string to reach 50,000 registrations last night. The total number of domain names of all new gTLDs is at 481,773. The number is higher if you count the …

In the past week (Mar 31 to Apr 6), 660 (737 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 million ($1.2m last week). Only 248 (277 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-31-14 to 4-6-14 were $2.042.237. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO, posted an article at his ICANN blog. Basically he says that the U.S. government believes that ICANN and IANA are ready to run without the US supervision. The U.S. …

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This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .international, .coffee, .house, .solar and .florist. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $42,500 …

The .VG zone has been re-delegated to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Virgin Islands (TRC). This re-delegation is related to the dispute with the former registry operator Meridian TLD that operated the .VG registry without …

Here is the infographic Verisign published announcing that 5 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q4 of 2013, bringing the registered domain names to a total of 271 million worldwide. Compared to last …

HEXONET (http://www.hexonet.net) announced that the company has achieved the major domain name industry milestone of over 2 million domains under management. Powered by thousands of domain name resellers, from across the globe, and even more …

The Uniregistry Affiliate Plus (UAP) Program that allows DomainNameSales.com parking customers another avenue by which they can monetize their names has published a “how to” guide. Last week Uniregistry announced the new domain name affiliate …

The newly constituted Board of Directors of the Domain Name Association (DNA), the Internet domain industry’s only global trade association, has elected its officers, the organization today announced. With its leaders in place and a …

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners (one of the largest portfolio applicant groups leading this revolution with 57 applications) is delighted to announce the successful resolution of the contention set for …