Domain Name News

Most domainers that register, renew, buy or sell domains or doing domaining related business like hosting on the internet use Paypal on a daily basis. There are some registrars that use the Paypal “Preapproved Payments” …

According to ntldstats.com there are now 391,420 New gTLD domain names in 49 New gTLD strings. These numbers only include domain names that are in the zone files. i.e. they have nameservers. I estimate that …

This is a question that a website/domain owner sent to Google Webmasters: “Is there any way Google identifies “sister” websites? For example, relationships between ebay.co.uk and ebay.com? Does linking from one to the other is …

UK registry Nominet is now offering registrars the option of locking high-value .uk domains at the registry level, adding an additional level of security against Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. The Domain Lock tool inserts …

Go Daddy is running a BuyDomains domain name auction that features 150 premium domains with low reserves. The auction started yesterday March 26 2014.The list features domain names such as Deductibles.com, Galas.com, USSales.com and OnlineEvents.com. …

This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .email, .solutions, .training, .support and .builders. The total Donuts EAP purchases from just the first 3 EAP days is at about …

Sedo Holding AG published it’s annual 2013 report that reveals that while the company’s overall revenue is up 5.5% (€140.0 million compared to €132.7 million), the domain segment revenue is down 12.6%. The domain related revenues …

At ICANN 49 in Singapore today Akram Atallah, president of ICANN‘s Global Domains Division (GDD) and Lucky Masilela, CEO of ZA Central Registry (ZACR) participated in a symbolic signing ceremony that allows the new gTLD …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .Camp, .Education, .Glass, .Institute and .Repair. The most promising New gTLDs are probably .Education and then .Camp and .Repair. I expect that most …

TONI&GUY Hair Salon and the TONI&GUY Hairdressing Academy got a new domain name this July that is now an active website: toniguy.edu. They also updated their website at toniguy.com. Not anyone can register a .edu …

BizJournals.com reported today that GoDaddy will be closing it’s Denver-area office that currently has 69 employees. GoDaddy is offering relocation for its 69 workers there. “While the Scottsdale-based domain name registrar and small-business Web services …

I posted an article today about the formation of a new organization called the Secure Domain Foundation (SDF). A few minutes later I got a comment informing me that the domains SecureDomainFoundation.com and SecureDomainFoundation.org were …

Donuts launched a new “Featured Sites” webpage where it displays developed domain names with active websites on them. The webpage already features 12 Donuts New gTLD domain names that have been build in the past …

BRS Media, a .radio new gTLD applicant, submitted formal comments to ICANN regarding the community priority evaluation, from another .radio applicant EBU, for the .RADIO New gTLD. “It is our belief that in an attempt …