Domain Name News

Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the Household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Supreme Court of the …

During Q3 2013, the number of .eu registrations decreased by 3 051 domain names, a net decrease of -0.1%, to 3.70 million. The total number of .eu domain name registered at the end of Q3 …

In the context of the recent Caribbean ICT Week, Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO, and Ms. Bernadette Lewis, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase cooperation and …

ICANN Ombudsman has received a number of complaints about the results received from the dispute resolution providers in the new gTLD applications. He replied to these complaints and he said that the real problem is …

The Pirate Bay, the popular torrent search engine, just moved again to a new domain name: thepiratebay.pe. It had moved to thepiratebay.ac just 2 days ago after the domain ThePirateBay.sx was seized. The Peruvian domain …

I got an angry comment yesterday in seemingly unrelated post concerning a post made by Owen Frager at his blog. I would have allowed the comment to appear although the commenter used some harsh language …

Sedo just announced the sale of the domain Schedule.me for $24,000 USD. The domain was originally registered in 2008. The domain was bought by an individual living in Charlotte, US and is currently still using the …

The Pirate Bay, the popular torrent search engine, just moved to a new domain name thepiratebay.ac after the domain ThePirateBay.sx was seized. After a long lasting pressure from the entertainment industry the domain registry of …

DomainNameSales is heavily promoting its brokering services. It has gone thus far as changing, temporarily, its logo. Here is the new “promotion” logo with the “Try our brokers” slogan: They have also added a link …

SnapNames announced today that .CO.UK and .CN domain names are now available for drop-catching through its online marketplace. .CO.UK and .CN are the world’s third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions. Here …

I made a post last week detailing my first 2 months syndicating my DomainNameSales domains to Go Daddy. I didn’t have any luck with the syndication and received very few offers and 0 sales. Today …

Sedo just announced the sale of the domain pizza.nl for 75000 Euro or $103,318 USD. The domain was originally registered in 1996. The domain was bought by dutch company Thuisbezorgd.NL and is currently redirecting to …

Minds + Machines is currently running a Facebook ad that says “Dot Com is Dead” and below it says “Long live the new Top Level Domains”. I won’t even comment of this “Dot Com is …

For the next week, you get 50% off the domain listing fee at Flippa. Also starting today, you also get half-price relists.  Flippa has also made it easier for you to browse domains. You can now search …