Domain Name News

On Monday I posted an extensive review on the New Afternic. It seems that Afternic is addressing the issues I pointed out and yesterday Afternic responded to my review by posting this comment: Thank you …

ICANN is opening a Public Comment Period for the draft Expired Registration Recovery Policy. This process including the reply period is scheduled to be completed 30th of November 2012. Members of the Internet Community are …

Since 2002 I have been making lists and going through the lists every day. When I was sorting the lists by nameservers, a couple of the most common nameservers I saw belonged to the Name …

Ebay integrated the new logo in it’s website today. A few people didn’t like the change of the Ebay logo that was announced 3 weeks ago. I wonder if that has changed now. I don’t …

Public Interest Registry (PIR) – the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, one of the original generic top-level domains with over 10 million registrations – will release 94 one and two character .ORG addresses – …

This week, 775 transactions (884 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.25 million ($1.6 last week). Only 200 domains (233 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

Here is a list of the latest .info auction results. 2 of the 4 domains sold in auctions originate from the .info Land Ruch 2. Please click here to see my report on .info Land …

Afternic’s highly anticipated redesigned website is finally here and this is my review. First of all I have to say that the new Afternic looks a lot better that the old one. The old Afternic …

Last week I wrote of sedo.tv being expired and that a Namejet auction was coming soon. This was an expired domain that was registered at Enom so it went into a 3 day auction at …

Directnic.com announced yesterday that it’s new redesigned website is now live. The new website includes new features like better search results, an improved “My Account” Dashboard and an upgraded Expiring Services page.  This is the …

The new Afternic website has been unveiled today! (just minutes ago) Last week Afternic announced that it was going to release to it’s users the new and redesigned website. I couldn’t wait for the new …

A few days ago Sedo announced the top 50 domains for September. Today, Sedo released the top 50 domains for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference that starts in a couple of days. Sedo includes the price suggestions set …

Last week Afternic announced that it was going to release to it’s users the new and redesigned website. The new Afternic website was supposed to debut this week but today I got another email from …

Conan O’Brien made a joke on Monday about internet search engines on his show Conan, my favorite talk show. It was during his monologue that he said this: There is a new internet search engine …