Domain Name News

NameSilo, one of the fastest growing and most popular domain registrars in the world, jumped on to the Bitcoin bandwagon. It announced that it was offering Bitcoin as a new method of payment on its …

I created a ranking system for all gTLDs, old and new, so I can place the new gTLDs in this ranking system as they come out. This way I can have a reference as to …

The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) created a dedicated page on which monthly updates on the statistics of the Clearinghouse will be published. So far 23.024 marks have been submitted from 82 countries and 108 jurisdictions. 88,7% …

Web host and domain name registrar Namecheap.com has unveiled its newest redesign, focusing on the latest in design achievements while also sporting a friendly and intuitive interface that is responsive and thus accessible from all …

.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that its new “.CLUB” domain has been delegated by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …

The ICANN Business Constituency sent a letter to the New gTLD Program Committee on December 20th 2013 asking them to reconsider allowing both singular and plural forms of the same TLD string. The ICANN Business …

I wasn’t able to attend NamesCon this week but I was able to meet a domainer on Tuesday here in Athens, Greece. I met with Stu Maloff from Boca Raton, Florida. We went for a …

The South China Morning Post (scmp.com) reported today that the domain name China.com was purchased in August 2013 for HK$90.8 million. That is about $11.7 million USD. The buyer is China Radio International, a state-owned …

I have to admit it. People’s creativity in scams never seizes to amaze me. I was browsing the domain names for sale at Ebay.com when I found this for sale: “Mystery Domain Name”. I was …

Who Is Hosting This.com was kind enough to share this very useful infographic that outlines the steps that a domain name buyer has to take if he/she is interested in buying a domain name that …

I just tried to check whois details for a .org domain and it seems that the .org whois server is down and is not responding. A whois search at PIR, the .org registry, whois search …

Symantec, a computer security, antivirus, backup and SSL provider, wrote an article about the effect that new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will have on SSL certificates. There are already many new gTLDs that have been …

I missed a couple of days because there were just too many announcements and news over the past week. I am using the search terms that visitors of my blog are using at Google and …

In the past week (Jan 6 to Jan 12), 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.5 million. Only 208 domains from the 572 were reported by Sedo. The other domains were either private …