Domain Name News

In the past week (Jan 27 to Feb 2), 728 (769 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 million ($1.7 last week). Only 260 (229 last week) domains from …

The first few hours of general availability had about 19,000 new gTLD domain name registrations but that trend didn’t continue in the next 24 hours. Despite Europe and Asia getting into action, the New gTLD …

An article at TheRegister.co.uk describes how a customer of domain name registrar and web hosting provider 123-reg, owned by Host Europe Group, lost control of his account with 120+ domain names. The customer that wanted …

DomainNameSales.com, the popular parking and sales platform, just added a “Firm” price option when a seller sends a quote of a counter-offer to a buyer. I was replying to some inquiries today when I noticed …

Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) shares are now up 4.46% (4.6% early in the morning) at the London Stock Exchange after the number of uncontested top level domains in which it has an interest rose …

An article called “British businesses fall victim to ‘cybersquatters’ amid domain name rollout” was posted on telegraph.co.uk. Although the article has some useful information it seems that on a few points it’s a bit off. …

Yesterday, while posting the Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales, I noticed that some domains from last week were reported once again in this week. I contacted Afternic and they confirmed it. Some of the domain …

Mason Cole, Donuts.co’s VP of Communications and Industry Relations, gave an interview on Vice.com. At the end of his interview he talked about new gTLD popularity and how it compares to the success of .com: …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2013 and year ended Dec. 31, 2013. Verisign Registry Services added 1.29 million net new names …

Above.com, owner of popular domain name forum DomainState.com, announced a few updates on the forum including 3 new domain tools, Domain Directory Listings, Themed Domain Auctions, etc. The new domain tools that were added are: …

Rightside™, the domain name services business of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), today announced new partnerships with many of the world’s leading registrars to bring its portfolio of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) to market.  More than 40 …

Donuts entered general availability for the following new gTLDs: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography. 7 new gTLD domains sold for $12,539,99 a piece in the past 24 hours and all of them were …

The domain name BitcoinWallet.com was sold for $250,000 while the domain name BitcoinWallets.com is pending sale for $200,000. Entrepreneur Niko Younts is the seller for both domains and made the announcement at his Twitter account: …

I know everyone says that new gTLDs bring more choice to the end users but it seems to me that end-users need to learn a lot more about domain names in general before jumping on …