Domain Name News

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 …

Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, and Web.com Group, Inc. a leading provider of Internet services and online marketing solutions for small businesses, today announced a partnership that will give customers access …

Over the course of the last month, 25 Donuts new gTLDs have entered the general availability phase, and to date Donuts claims in today’s newsletter to have registered over 150,000 domains. Today’s zone numbers are …

I think it would be useful for all to understand why domainers are buying New gTLD domains. My purchases so far are a combination of long term investments, some domains I could flip and a …

On the eve of the insertion of 5 French GeoTLDs in the root zone, the Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names looks into their prospects for development. The Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names focuses …

In the past week (Feb 10 to Feb 16), 743 (793 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8 million ($1.7 last week). Only 268 (264 last week) domains from …

Worldwide Media, Inc., the company owned by Michael Berkens, has bought at least 4 domain names in the New gTLD .diamonds. 2 domain names were purchased on the second day of Donuts, the .diamonds registry, …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 2-10-14 to 2-16-14 were $2.168.125. The domain name diamonds.info was sold for $20,000 and that makes me wonder if this …

The domain namess ibm.ventures and ibm.guru were suspended on the 12th of February after the URS complaint by IBM. That was just 6 days after the URS complaint by IBM at the National Arbitration Forum …

I sold a .us domain name back in January 2011. It was for about $1500 if I remember correctly but that is not the point. The domain name was registered at Moniker and the buyer …

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD Registry Operators. All new gTLD Registry Operators are required to regularly deposit a backup copy of …

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), S.A. has filed yet another URS complaint on a New gTLD domain name today. This time a URS complaint was filed for the domain name bbva.ventures. On the 19th of …

ICM Registry released 39 previously reserved .xxx domains into general availability. These were once listed in the premium/reserved list with various prices such as $11,000 for 666.xxx. Some domains have already been registered so anyone …

The number of domain name registrations from the 21 first Donuts New gTLDs surpassed 135000 yesterday. The number does not include domain names without nameservers so the number is certain to be higher. .Guru is …