Domain Name News

ICANN is actively seeking locations for its three public meetings to be held 8-12 February 2015 in Africa, 21-25 June 2015 in Latin America/Caribbean Islands, and 18-22 October 2015 in Europe. Those in the geographic regions …

Demand Media, Inc., a leading digital media and domain services company, reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. “Strong growth from our owned & operated content and media properties drove our Q1 results, …

Namejet partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 79 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. The list includes domains such as books.info, gold.info, casinos.info, shop.info, stocks.info and a lot more. Each name is …

The Moniker/Snapnames premium spring auction sells 31 domains worth a total of $30,877. There were 168 other domains that didn’t get the reserve such as kx.net $8,500, ylq.com $5,250, yogaclasses.com $10,250, 20.net $10,000, so.net $10,000, vivas.com …

Namejet partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 79 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. The list includes domains such as books.info, gold.info, casinos.info, shop.info, stocks.info and a lot more. Each name is …

GoDaddy formally announced its new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Scott Wagner, effective immediately. Wagner was a KKR Capstone Member and the leader of KKR’s portfolio operations team in North America, who stepped …

As of 7 and 8 May 2013, 3 more ICANN accredited registrars are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN requests that these …

Namejet partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 79 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. The list includes domains such as books.info, gold.info, casinos.info, shop.info, stocks.info and a lot more. Each name is …

The email that Name.com has been sending is real and all name.com customers should change their password. Hackers aimed at one of name.com’s large commercial clients have caused the registrar to send emails with a …

GoDaddy with Governor Jan Brewer, and representatives from Arizona State University Research Park, Ryan Companies, the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC), announced plans for a major Arizona expansion with …

This week, 703 transactions (763 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.46 million ($1.57 last week). Only 254 domains (253 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

This past week 6 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 6 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 57. Global …

Namejet partnered with Afilias to auction a list of 79 Premium .INFO domains for the first time. The list includes domains such as books.info, gold.info, casinos.info, shop.info, stocks.info and a lot more. Each name is …

I checked the WIPO stats for the 1st quarter of 2013 and found that UDRP complaints have slowed down while the average number of domain names per case has increased. Usually the first 2 quartes …