Domain Name News

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that the ICANN Board of Directors has made the decision that the ICANN69 Annual General Meeting (AGM), which was to be held in Hamburg, …

.Cars .Car and .Auto to be sold in a no reserve auction at Innovative Auctions. Launched in 2015, .Cars .Car and .Auto, are a joint venture between XYZ Registry and UNR Corp. The 2 companies …

Nominet, the .UK registry, released the 2019 annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) that handles .UK disputes. The total number of domain names that were subject to DRS …

You don’t see this very often. Actually I don’t think I have ever seen a brand protection agency produce a guide on what trademark owners need to know to avoid reverse domain name hijacking! Reverse …

This was one of these moments where it suddenly hits you and your blood freezes… So I logged in to Namejet today, clicked on search, sorted all domains by most bids and then… I stood …

Mike Mann reported selling 4 domain names in May for a total of $96,808. Prices started at $11,920 and went up to $35,000. Mike Mann sold 4 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price …

The GoDaddy website sucks. Anyone that deals with GoDaddy on a daily basis knows it. It is full of bugs, inconsistencies, old and new systems contradicting, etc. On Saturday I complained about the crazy expensive …

Google said that through both internal studies and industry research, users show they prefer sites with a great page experience. In recent years, Search has added a variety of user experience criteria, such as how …

.US domain names are some of the cheapest domain names to register and renew. Yet somehow GoDaddy, a US company, has decided that .us domains are a good choice so it can rip off customers …

Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the first quarter of 2020 closed with 366.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 4.5 …

A few day ago I lost an auction for a domain name at Godaddy. I made a proxy bid early in the day the auction was ending as I was not going to be available …

Numbers from CENTR show a spike in new registrations in the month of April 2020. A sample of 25 European ccTLDs saw a 20% increase in new domains registered in April 2020 from the same …

CSC, a brand protection agency (among others), announced today that its Digital Brand Services branch is moving from a New gTLD (cscdigitalbrand.services) to a .com (cscdbs.com) domain. CSC started using the (long) .services domain name …

Domain Agents has published its 2020 domain valuation guide and the first observation made by Ryan McKegney, CEO of DomainAgents, is that during lockdown there has been a 20% increase in domain name offers. “Even …