Domain Name News

94% of .eu registrars feel they have a good relationship with EURid, according to the results of the 2013 Registrar Satisfaction Survey. This figure has increased 7% from last year. Registrar satisfaction is at 78% …

Moniker send an email containing some information regarding the recent sale of Snapnames to Web.com. Moniker will continue to work with SnapNames as in the past and the usual business will not be interrupted for …

Afternic is the official launch partner of the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) .WIEN. As announced at the Domain Pulse conference, Afternic has been selected to develop and implement an international, premium domain name strategy. …

In the past week (Feb 24 to Mar 02), 582 (667 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 million ($1m last week). Only 192 (241 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 2-24-14 to 3-2-14 were $2.046.716. This report includes some New gTLD pre-registration auctions at Go Daddy such as, HorseRacing.tips for …

Namejet released it’s February 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 67 domains for $342,876 in February 2014. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure that the bulk amount of …

A buyer just contacted me and told me that they have been trying for an hour to pay me but they can’t because Paypal is experiencing technical difficulties. I checked some websites and it appears …

Frank Schilling’s new registrar, Uniregistrar, is set to launch on Monday. Frank Schilling’s new gTLD registry, Uniregistry, had a lot of problems with the .tattoo and .sexy new gTLD launch. It seems that Frank does …

“This is the biggest domain name sales database ever built.” It lists 300,000+ historic sales in the past 14+ years. Check the database at http://dnpric.es/. According to the stats page: http://dnpric.es/stats/ The database has 315,461 …

TorrentFreak.com posted an article today about how Go Daddy handed over the personal details of a domain name owner. Responding to an inquiry from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), Go Daddy shared his personal details although …

ICANN announced that 9 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 169 new gTLD strings. The 9 new gTLDs are: .KOELN, .BID, .OKINAWA, .VOTE, .VOTO, .BAR, .KRED, .BEST, .OPR (xn--c1avg) – Russian for …

I checked out the zone files from 3 (.domains, .limo, .cab) new gTLDs that completed sunrise and went into general availability (Early Access Program (EAP)) on Wednesday and here are the results. Zone files only …

ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from the deaccredited registrar Asadal, Inc. to Gabia, Inc. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of Asadal, Inc. The …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 4 New gTLDs today: .DOMAINS .LIMO .CAB .Domains is targeted to domainers, registrars and maybe registries. This seems like a very small end-user base. The same is …