Domain Name News

I didn’t know Eli the Computer Guy up until today. But he has 258,376 subscribers on YouTube.com and he sure likes to talk. Well he is my hero for today. His latest video is called …

ICM Registry, the .xxx registry, has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices since October 2012. Not many updates had been done to that list, other than removing sold domains, up until …

The London Stock Exchange won a DRS domain name dispute over the domain LondonStockExchange.co.uk. The London Stock Exchange, that operates it’s official website under the LondonStockExchange.com domain, owned the domain LondonStockExchange.co.uk since at least early …

.uk registry Nominet has announced a launch date of 10th June 2014 for new ‘example.uk’ domain names. From this date, people will be able to register the shorter ‘example.uk’ domain names through their registrar, alongside …

ICANN announced that on January 23 to 29, 15 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 122 new gTLD strings. The 15 new gTLDs are: .VOTING, .TOKYO, .NAGOYA, .DATING, .COMMUNITY, .BOUTIQUE, .BARGAINS, .TIENDA, …

Norid (operator of the .no ccTLD) has initiated a public hearing on whether private individuals should be able to register domain names directly within .no in addition to registrations within the priv.no category domain. Everyone is invited to give …

Donuts enters general availability for the following new gTLDs today: .BIKE .CLOTHING .GURU .HOLDINGS .PLUMBING .SINGLES .VENTURES. The Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) is designed for registrants who want to secure relevant, memorable domain names …

Naoki Hiroshima, made a post on Medium.com about how he lost his @N twitter username because of PayPal and GoDaddy. His “How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username” article is “A story of how PayPal …

Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the web presence business of Directi, which operates India’s leading domain registration business. The acquisition of Directi includes B2B …

*UDRP Panelist Gabriela Kennedy is also working for a law firm and often submits UDRP complaints on behalf of her customers. Her fellow Panelists decide on her cases.* The UDRP complaint for the domain names …

Above.com announced today the “Lead Generation Domain Auction” that will be its second Themed Auction in 2014. Bidding will be open to the public commencing March 17, 2014 and ending on April 16, 2014 at …

.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced that it has officially begun its Trademark Sunrise Period, signaling that brands and other trademark owners …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 1-20-14 to 1-26-14 were $1.770.240. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked …

CheapSSLs.com, a US-based SSL certificates store, got an upgrade and moved to a new domain: SSLs.com. The domain name SSLs.com was registered in 1997 by Sandy Springs Lawn Scapes, Inc., a landscaping company. CheapSSLs.com bought …