Domain Name News

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 …

A complaint was filed yesterday at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the domain name eurobaby.com. The complainant is Eurocycles & Eurobaby Eurotrek Group Limited/Liam Sutcliffe that is a company/person based in Dublin, Ireland. …

Today, I logged into my account at Dynadot only to find a new control panel awaiting. That was a nice surprise to mark the 10th anniversary of one of my favorite registrars. The new control …

The Pirate Bay was down for the past two days. I was starting to get worried even though the Pirate Bay team had announced that the downtime was caused by a Power Distribution Unit (PDU) …

This week, 884 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 million. Only 223 domains were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains were either private sales or domains that sold for …

I have won several domain names at Namejet auctions. One problem I always have is this. A lot of the domain names I won are behind privacy before I win them and continue to be …

There is a lot of talk lately about who makes lists, how many and who’s lists are the best. I occasionally look at one of the lists but only to see what kind of domains …

Here is a list of the latest .info auction results. This time 3 of the 4 auctions were for a Land Rush 2 (LR2) .info domain. The domains were auctioned off at Namejet and  Premiumsale.com. Please …

Really? Do you call yourselves domainers? I have done a couple of posts in the “What domain not to register” series I started: What domain not to register #1 and What domain not to register #2 …

Complainant was JPI Commercial, LLC from Minnesota, USA. Respondent was Alan Capalditallon from United Kingdom. Complainant, a pharmaceutical company, owns numerous US and EU trademark registrations for XYREM, used in connection with various pharmaceutical goods …

We just got a press release from Afternic. A couple of days back Afternic announced the launch of NameFind, a one-stop, name generation tool. Next week Afternic will launch the new and redesigned Afternic. Afternic is …

The Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) and .eu registry EURid are running a special fee reduction to make the .eu Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process even more accessible to the European public. EURid is sponsoring the .eu …