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 …
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Will the launch of New gTLDs bring more UDRP complaints for .coms?
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 …
Read More »Web.com Announces Acquisition of SnapNames
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 …
Read More »Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: ProjectBook.com $20k, Nano.Technology $1,425 (2-17-14 to 2-23-14)
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 …
Read More »How To Verify Your Domain Name With Go Daddy And Avoid Suspension of Your Website
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 …
Read More »Virgin and Richard Branson file 4 URS complaints for 5 New gTLD domain names
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” …
Read More »ICANN: “Governing laws take precedence over the terms of the (2013) RAA”
ICANN did a blog post today reassuring European Registrars about the Data Retention Specification of 2013 RAA. Some people from the US may not understand how big the problem is here in the EU. The …
Read More »Sunrise registrations for .sexy and .tattoo(Steve Mcqueen;Manchester United;Rolex;BMW;Viagra;Samsung)
The first 2 New gTLDs launched by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry on Tuesday. Most notably Go Daddy, the world number 1 registrar, bought GoDaddy.sexy and GoDaddy.tattoo. Go Daddy registered godaddy.sexy in sunrise but got GoDaddy.tattoo during …
Read More »Fadi Chehade talks about domain names at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Associated Press run an article about the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The world’s largest mobile phone trade show was held in Barcelona, Spain, on February 26 and 27, 2014. Fadi Chehade, head of …
Read More »Frank you need to fix this Uniregistry mess here and now!
The .tattoo and .sexy launch made a lot of people angry. The whois problem (that has partially been resolved but I will get to this later) and the fact that most of the good domains …
Read More »5 New gTLD domains sold for $3,000+ – 13 domains sold for $1,200+ (blogging.tips, insurance.tips)
This past week the following 4 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .tips, .diamonds, .voyage and .enterprises. This week no New gTLD domain name was sold for 5-figures in the Early Access Program (EAP). …
Read More »Shady, strange and funny sunrise domain name registrations (StarTrek.enterprises, CarInsurance.tips)
On Monday I did a post on sunrise results for .diamonds, .enterprises, .voyage and .tips new gTLDs. I also noticed some funny, strange and more disturbingly some shady domain name registrations. As usual there was …
Read More »Advertising Opportunities At OnlineDomain.com
I am making this post to let potential sponsors that there are advertising opportunities on my blog OnlineDomain.com. OnlineDomain.com gets traffic mostly from domain investors but other people interested in the domain industry and domain …
Read More »10 more New gTLDs were delegated: .CHRISTMAS, .PUB, .FISH, .SUPPLY etc.
ICANN announced that 10 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 160 new gTLD strings. The 10 new gTLDs are: .CHRISTMAS, .PUB ,.ACTOR ,.SUPPLIES ,.FISH, .VACATIONS, .INDUSTRIES, .SUPPLY, .дети (xn--d1acj3b) – Russian for “kids/deti”, .삼성 …
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