Domain Name News

101domain.com just joined the SedoMLS Premium network. Sedo added the California based registrar continueing the SedoMLS expansion after Sedo adding Asian registrar Net-Chinese, Chinese Registrar 66.cn and Russian Reg.ru in the past couple of months. …

The National Arbitration Forum has secured the first appointment by ICANN to administer the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS). FORUM submitted an outstanding proposal demonstrating how it would meet all requirements presented in the RFI …

.me is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Montenegro. The .me top level domain replaced the .yu (Yugoslavia) and .cg.yu domains previously used by Serbia and Montenegro. The .me registry is operated by …

eDoctor.com sold for $43,310 at Namejet in a deleted domain auction. The auction had 261 bids from 199 bidders. There were 6 bidders with a $10k bid or higher and 3 bidders with a $40k bid or …

On Sunday night I went to write a post on my OnlineDomain.com WordPress blog only to find a blank white page with a “pageok” written on it. That was not OK by any measure! My …

This week, 763 transactions (800 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million ($1.57 last week). Only 215 domains (211 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

Demand Media Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2012 Results Record Fourth Quarter and 2012 Revenue and Revenue ex-TAC Q4 and 2012 Adj. EBITDAGrowth Each Exceed 20% to $29.4M and $103.4M Q4 and 2012 Adj. EPS …

Demand Media today announced that its board of directors has authorized a plan to explore separating its business into two independent, publicly-traded companies: A pure-play media company with a powerful outsourced content creation platform that …

From March 18 to 28, 2013, Go Daddy Auctions is offering 42 rare, valuable one and two character .org domain names. For more information, see What is Project 94?. Starting today, if you want to …

The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry and new gTLD applicant for .ngo and ong, opened today a call for expressions of interest (EOI) for .NGO and .ONG domain registrations. PIR claims that new …

The Project 94 .org Event Auction is almost here! From March 18 to 28, 2013, Go Daddy Auctions is offering 42 rare, valuable one- and two-character .org domain names. For Project 94, the Public Interest …

Barack Obama’s “Organizing For Action” filed for a trademark at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The trademark for the mark “ORGANIZING FOR ACTION” was filed on 7th of February 2013 and relates to 5 …

General Motors LLC withdrew it’s application for the .GMC new gTLD string. This makes it the 2st new gTLD with assigned prioritization number and the 15th string in total to withdraw. The string received a Prioritization …

The Domain Pulse Conference started today in Davos, Switzerland. Domain Pulse claims to be the the most important event in the German-speaking world when it comes to current topics, tendencies and trends associated with domains. …