Domain Name News

Today auctions.xyz sold at Namejet for $310 in what was an Advance Auction. The auction only had 5 bids from 4 bidders. The winning bidder won with a bid it made over a month ago: …

The domain name StockPhotos.com didn’t sell despite getting a $131,123 bid at Flippa in an auction that ended a few hours ago. The auction lasted one month and had 17 bids but the highest bid …

.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, will be offering “yourname.club” Web addresses to clubs, membership organizations, affinity and …

A decision at the National Arbitration Forum found that the Registrar PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com withheld the transfer of the domain names <maxalbums.com>, <emp3world.com> and <full- albums.net> in violation of the Policy on Transfer of Registrations …

My new column is called Domain Name Q&A. I am using the search terms that visitors of my blog are using at Google and other search engines to find my website. Some of the search …

DomainNameSales and Frank Schilling just sent an email with the subject “January Housekeeping – DomainNameSales.com”. They are asking all the DNS partners to remove all domains from their accounts that they no longer own. These …

Here is the OnlineDomain.com annual roundup of the top ten most popular posts posted during 2013 (based on overall readership). I wrote 603 new posts in 2013. The top post got more than 7000 unique …

The is a hand registration contest going on over at DomainInvesting.com. I am one of the 7 participants. Please vote for me here. Unfortunately I can’t tell you which one is my list. 🙂 You …

I started a new column called Domain Name Q&A. I will be using the search terms that visitors of my blog are using at Google and other search engines to find my website and are …

I would like to congratulate Michael Berkens for getting on CircleID’s Top 10 Posts of 2013. CircleID is a news and opinion site that produces news articles, blogs, and other commentary on internet governance and …

Here is a list of my 4 figure domain name purchases in 2013. The purchases were for expired or dropped domains and also directly from the domain name owners using an escrow service. Some of …

MAYA Design, Inc., announced today the launch of Agency of Trillions (AoT)—an innovation agency that combines the disciplines of storytelling and design to help organizations navigate the coming era of pervasive computing. The new firm …

California-based Internet escrow agent, Agreed Escrow, Inc. (“Agreed”) just launched its online service at agreed.com. Agreed is one of only a handful of businesses licensed to conduct Internet escrows by the California Department of Business …

Residents, companies and organisations based in the European Economic Area (EEA) countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are eligible to register domain names under the .eu top-level domain from today, 8 January 2014, at 10:00 …