Domain Name News

ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted “Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement” for the community’s information and review. Clean [PDF, 458 KB] Redline [PDF, 455 KB] Summary of Changes [PDF, 155 KB] …

.CO registry announced the launch of Asian IDNs including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and its …

Namejet will auction 39 1-2 character .ORG domain names starting April 6 as part of Project 94. In partnership with eNom, NameJet is now offering this exclusive list of Premium .ORG domains for auction. For …

Here are some of the most notable sales at Sedo during the past week. These are sales that were published after the latest Sedo report was released last Tuesday. Please find below the list of …

I must say that I don’t use Name.com as my primary registrar but I like it more every day since I have been using it for the past 6 months. Yesterday I tried to login …

Last week the Namejet auction for the domain name eDoctor.com that had sold for $43,310 was cancelled and a new private auction was started. The domain eDoctor.com was dropped by pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. The winning bidder …

Namejet sold 3 domains in the 5 figure range in the past few days: TeeShirts.com, CasinoBonuses.com and EDoctor.com. TeeShirts.com sold for $41,800 at Namejet. The auction had 292 bids from 187 bidders. The domain was sold by …

I have been reading lately about the rebranding of the .pw ccTLD. The extension .pw is the country code top-level domain for Palau, an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. The question in …

Go Daddy’s Project 94 .org auction was supposed to end today. Instead auctions end 1 week from now. Go Daddy decided on a 1 week “silent” extension. There has not been any mention anywhere for …

After the first 2 GoDaddy/Afilias auctions, the next batch of premium .info domains moves to a new venue. Namejet has partnered with Afilias to auction this list of 79 Premium .INFO domains for the first …

Today, March 27, 2013, Directi, Tucows and Namecheap formed an alliance to manage the .online registry by producing one single bid. There are three more applicants for the .online new gTLD string: I-REGISTRY Ltd., Niederlassung Deutschland from Germany …

HEXONET has temporarily disabled new registrations and domain transfers of the AdamsNames ccTLDs “.GD”, “.TC” and “.VG”.  Due to unprecedented circumstances explained below, this action is required until further notice. HEXONET Registrar Statement: 1.    As …

This week, 782 transactions (865 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 million ($1.47 last week). Only 246 domains (271 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

This past week 7 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 7 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 33. Progressive …