Domain Name News

Once a domain name is registered, the challenge facing all registrants is promoting their new website. Working with eTurboNews, the .travel Registry has designed a registration bonus program to help with that challenge. The .travel …

Kuboo, Inc., (OTC Pink: SGTB) dba Safe Communications, Inc. (“Safe”), and Northsight Capital, Inc.(OTCBB: NCAP)(OTCQB: NCAP), announced today that Northsight Capital (“NCAP”), Safe’s 80% owned subsidiary, has signed a letter of intent to acquire approximately …

WHO: Jeremiah Johnston, General Counsel, Sedo.com WHAT: “The Discussion’s Over: New Domains Are Here” WHEN: Monday, March 10, 2014 at 12:30 p.m. CST WHERE:         Austin Convention Center , Ballroom E SXSW …

ICANN announced today the upcoming launch of the new Global Domains Division (GDD) Portal, which is anticipated to go live in mid-March 2014. This new tool provides a centralized location for new gTLD Registry Operators …

Easyspace, one of the UK’s leading ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web hosting companies, will be offering the new .Club domain name extension after signing a Registry-Registrar agreement with .CLUB Domains, LLC. In pre-registrations …

In the past week (Feb 17 to Feb 23), 667 (743 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.8 last week). Only 241 (268 last week) domains from …

I checked out the zone files from 4 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and went into general availability (Early Access Program (EAP)) on Wednesday and here are the results. Zone files only include domain names …

Neustar, the .biz and .us registry, launched what is one of the very first .brand New gTLDs: .neustar. The website is located at nic.neustar. Neustar currently intends for the .neustar gTLD to be used exclusively …

Since the end of January, Donuts has launched 25 new gTLDs that have entered the general availability (GA) phase, and another 4 are in the Early Access Program (EAP) GA. Uniregistry has launched 2 new …

I noticed that a UDRP complaint was filed for the domain name AirtelGuru.com. Although this seems like the regular UDRP complaint, I am not sure that it is. That is because with the introduction of …

Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading provider of Internet services and online marketing solutions for small businesses, announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. SnapNames is a leader in the daily online …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 2-17-14 to 2-23-14 were $1.848.381. This report includes some New gTLD pre-registration auctions at Go Daddy such as, nano.technology for …

The new* ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and registrar agreement requires all domain name owners to verify their contact details. According to the new rule, email verification is required so that domains …

Virgin and Richard Branson filed 4 URS complaints on 5 different New gTLD domain names in the past couple of days: richardbranson.holdings – richardbranson.ventures virgingalactic.guru virginaustralia.holdings branson.guru Virgin had a DPML block for the term “Virgin” …