Domain Name News

ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé has arrived in Beijing for several days of meetings with leaders of China’s Internet and telecommunications community. Chehadé will confer with several Chinese government agencies and representatives …

Fédération Française de Tennis that runs the Roland Garros Grand Slam tennis tournament is going after a lot of domain names lately using the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP). The official Roland Garros website is …

Sedo.com, announced today in their domain name sales feed that the domain name Malls.com was sold for $320,000. The domain name was sold by Michael Berkens‘s company Worldwide Media, Inc.. The domain name Malls.com was originally …

On the 5th of February I wrote how a company from Michigan that offers Sample Prep Equipment and Supplies bought the domain names sampleprep.equipment and metallographic.equipment for a total of $25,080 at Go Daddy. The …

Casio Computer CO., Ltd. filed a UDRP complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complaint was filed for 100 .org domain names. This is clearly a waste of time and money for everybody …

Apple Inc. bought 3 New gTLD domain names with different variations of the name of late Apple founder Steve Jobs. The domain names were registered this Friday February 7th 2014 at Apple’s brand protection registrar: Corporation …

As of February 4th and 7th 2014, 3 ICANN accredited registrars are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The breach is because of …

Blacknight, an Irish based ICANN accredited domain registrar and hosting company, is furious at ICANN about the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) 2013. A blog post called “ICANT Cope With ICANN!” (with a URL that ends …

Namejet released it’s January 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 83 domains for $836,575 in January 2014. Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. Here are the 83 reported domain …

I noticed a strange bug today with Go Daddy pre-registrations for new gTLD domain names. It seems that all pre-registrations default to a whois record for a registrant called “Fast Fix (Services) Ltd”. I had …

ICANN announced that on February 4th and 5th, 12 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 134 new gTLD strings. The 12 new gTLDs are: . 移动 (xn--6frz82g) – Chinese for “mobile”, .BLUE, …

Aaron Stong made a comment today at DomainInvesting.com about buying x.ventures and then all hell broke loose. While in the previous 10 days only 20 one character New gTLD domain names had been registered in …

Go Daddy added a help section that addresses most of the questions that users have for New gTLD Pre Registration Refunds and Auctions. There is information to answer refund and auction questions for each pre-registration …

Donuts entered general availability for the following new gTLDs: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography. I checked out the zone files from the 7 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and I found 519 registered …