Domain Name News

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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). …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 4 New gTLDs today: .SHOES, .CAREERS, .PHOTOS, .RECIPES. The real challenge is how .photos is going to perform as it rolled out just 3 weeks after .photography …

Businesses beware. Scammers in Asia are trying to trick you into paying a premium for your website domain names. Don’t fall for these scare tactics. How the Scam Works: You receive an email addressed to …

Yesterday was the launch day of the .sexy and .tattoo. The first 2 New gTLDs launched by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. Here are some interesting facts: Sunrise Sunrise was pretty slow. Especially in .tattoo that only …

Here are the results of the auction that ended today for 25 .club domain names at Sedo. The domains were auctioned by the .club registry. 15 domains reached their reserved price. The auction has some …

If you weren’t able to attend Afilias CMO Roland LaPlante’s recent webinar on “The Practicalities of a New Domain Launch,” you can watch it here. Since there’s a lot more to launching a new top-level …

A URS complaint was filed on the New gTLD domain name dana.holdings yesterday. The complainant is not yet know but it is probably Dana Limited from Ohio that is registered in the trademark clearinghouse for the …