Domain Name News

Buy 12 Donuts Domains and Get A 13th Free.  Also, 5% Discount for anything less. The special will run for just three days, from April 9-11, 2014.  A Baker’s Dozen is where the purchaser orders …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 2 New gTLDs today: .Holiday and .Marketing These 2 strings are interesting but I am not sure how many domains will not be reserved by the registry …

Verisign today announced that five million domain names were added to the Internet in Q4 of 2013, bringing the registered domain names total to 271 million worldwide. Compared to last year, worldwide registrations have grown …

Heritage Auctions (HA.com) held it’s 2nd domain name auction today. The auction had 100 domains for sale and 28 domains sold. The other 72 domains didn’t reach the reserve. Highlights include the sale of LK.com for …

ICANN sends 2nd notice of breach to registrar NameJuice.com that is responsible for the “Domain Registry of America” scam. NameJuice.com got another notice of breach this past December which I believe that was fixed because …

President and CEO of ICANN, Fadi Chehadé, Lawrence Strickling of NTIA, Robert M. McDowell, and Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda discussed the ICANN transition and its consequences for the evolution of internet governance. In March, the …

Amendments to the terms and conditions governing registrations of popular .uk domain names such as .co.uk and .org.uk will take effect next month, to formalise procedures for suspending domain names used to carry out online …

Sedo just announced that it sold the domain name gab.com for $200,002 USD. The domain, registered in 1998, was sold in the March Great Domains Auction and was confirmed as paid today. The domain seems …

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry, published a list of 4 reasons why your nonprofit or NGO should register a .ngo and .ong domain name. PIR is the registry that will operate the New …

Sedo just announced two mid 5-figures sales: zaker.com 45,000 EUR lossless.com 30,000 EUR Zaker.com was sold by a company called ZAKER, C.B. from Spain. The buyer is using privacy whois and the nameservers have not …

.Eu opened for registrations in April 2006. This year .eu celebrates it’s eighth anniversary and eight years of milestones with an infographic:

GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry, Inc. today announced the opening of new geographic top-level domain (GeoTLD), .tokyo, one of the first new domains to represent a truly global city. During the first phase of …

I noticed an announcement from Aftermarket.com that I found interesting. Aftermarket offers personal domain portfolios on Aftermarket.com in the form of www.Aftermarket.com/portfolio/Username. You just replace “Username” with your real Aftermarket username and you’ll be assigned …

I visited Go Daddy today and on it’s homepage it is promoting the New gTLD .Club domain names. On the main image it lists .com, .net, .org and .co but .net is replaced by .club …