Domain Name News

Pool announced on the 20th of December that it is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. I had 12 affected domains that were registered in these registrars in the past few …

Demand Media today announced the acquisition of Denver-based domain name registrar Name.com. The acquisition is intended to expand Demand Media’s platform as it prepares for the historic release of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) this year. …

Since I started this blog in July 2012 I made about 225 posts until the end of 2012. These are the most visited posts: “Your Auction Has Ended”: Will GoDaddy give me back my time …

She was born prematurely 1690gr. I hope she is strong to survive the next few days.

Let me tell you a story from the past… It was back in 2003 and Namewinner was running at full speed catching dropping domain names. For those that don’t know what Namewinner was… Namewinner was …

Marchex owned domain PetExpress.com gets a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling as John Berryhill gets this complaint dismissed at NAF. This must be the longest decision I have ever seen for the simple reason that …

The New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) send a letter complaining to ICANN about the numerous delays in the New gTLD program. The letter was sent on the 21st of December and was just published by …

ICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. This week 1 more domain has been sold: Dolls.xxx for $7,425. Doll.xxx is still available for sale at $5,940. …

Go Daddy Auctions and Sedo integration seems to be having a few problems today. I got an offer today on one of the few domains I have left at Sedo through Go Daddy auctions. I …

Go Daddy sold 32,767 domains in December. That is almost on par with November’s 32,850 domains. 55% of the sales were from auctions, 43% of the sales were from Buy Now listings and 2% were …

This week, 932 transactions (945 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.38 million ($1.48 last week). Only 330 domains (183 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

A few days back Namejet started a private auction for the domain name pack.org because the winning bidder didn’t pay for the domain. The Private Auction ended at $1,018 that means that Namejet lost $1,094 …

PIR, the .org domain name registry, have announced a price increase in .org effective July 1st 2013. Registrar price for .org will increase from $7.45 to $8.19. If you add the $0.25 ICANN fee the .org …

My last experience with Namejet support was smooth and most importantly pretty fast considering the timing of my support ticket. I contacted support a few hours before 2013 and I got a reply almost immediately …