Domain Name News

It is more than 7 weeks after the 1st Exclusive .info auction ended at Go Daddy and a lot of domains have not been transferred to their new owners. At first I thought that the …

SnapNames announced their newest partner, the Host Europe Group and their family of registrars including 123-reg, Heart Internet and Domainmonster.com. Founded in 1997, Host Europe Group (with over 1 million customers) provides domain registration, mass …

Verisign sent a letter to ICANN about an upcoming fee change in .name domain names. The letter notifies ICANN and all .name ICANN accredited registrars about the registry price increase for .name domain names that …

ICANN hosted the Europe Regional Registry/Registrar Meeting in Amsterdam on 24-25 January 2013 and said that it exceeded expectations. The recently completed Europe Regional Registry/Registrar Meeting held in Amsterdam exceeded all previous regional meetings in …

ICANN will run a Webinar on new IDN TLDs on the 13th February 2013 called “Examining the UX Implication of the Active Variant TLDs”. Here are the complete details on what the webinar is about …

Go Daddy says that the Super Bowl commercials were an unprecedented business success. That is not bad considering that “YourBigIdea.CO” is a copy of Verisign’s “What’s your .net idea?” campaign. GoDaddy.com’s two 30-second ads drove tremendous …

Protrada is offering a free Domain Trading eCourse to all it’s members. Protrada has developed a Domain Trading eCourse (valued at $49) that claims to be able to help you learn everything you need to …

I have tried renewing the same .org domain name at Moniker.com 3 times today within a 6 hour period and all three attempts have failed. You will not get any indication about the failed order …

ICM Registry, the .xxx registry, sent a $75 Search.xxx ad credit for each .xxx domain registered. Back in November ICM Registry announced that it was going to offer a $75 per-domain credit to existing owners …

In Go Daddy’s 2013 Super Bowl commercial at yourbigidea.co, Go Daddy urges everybody to seize their big idea and register a .co domain name. Go Daddy’s tagline is “What’s your big idea?“ But this commercial …

Karim Jiwani left RegistryPro to pursue new industry opportunities. Today, Afilias Limited announced the resignation of Karim Jiwani, who formerly ran RegistryPro, the .PRO registry and Afilias subsidiary. Under his tenure, the .PRO business doubled, …

On November Snapnames started making charges for “catching” unregistered domains for a $69 fee. The result was that a lot of Snapnames customers were charged for forgotten domains in their accounts with one user being …

Yesterday Go Daddy’s 2nd 2013 Super Bowl commercial came out featuring auto racing driver Danica Patrick introducing model Bar Refaeli and a geek named Walter played by Jesse Heiman. The commercial is named “Perfect Match” …

Go Daddy sold 35,156 domains in January. That is almost a 5% increase from December’s 33,446 domains. 52% (55% in December) of the sales were from auctions, 46% (43% in December) of the sales were from Buy …