Domain Name News

MMX announced its new service “for trademark holders seeking to protect their brand identity across its adult portfolio of TLDs from the increasing trend of domain name abuse including website phishing and malware.” Branded AdultBlock …

In the past few months Sedo started auctioning expired domain names and also created a dedicated expiry auction page: expiringdomains.sedo.com. Sedo is auctioning expired domains from the German registrar 1&1 IONOS. Sedo and 1&1 IONOS …

Read here how much Undeveloped paid to purchase their new domain name and brand Dan.com. A few days back I asked Reza Sardeha, CEO of DAN.COM, 10 questions. But I also asked him a bonus question that …

Stage one of the unclaimed .uk domains release ended and 1,793,701 domains were made available to the public via participating registrars. In the first week, 41,459 of those .uk domains were registered. That is 2.26% …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …

The XYZ registry, one of the worst New gTLD registries, made a tweet yesterday that is clearly false and frankly embarrassing to the whole domain name industry. The tweet said: “You can get a shorter, …

The domain name Viajes.es sold for €147.000 that is about $165,000 USD. The domain name was registered in 2005. The buyer is not yet known. The sale took place at Sedo. .ES is the ccTLD …

These are the top 10 domain name articles from the first half of 2019. It has been a crazy year in the domain name industry with some great sales but with ICANN screwing all domain …

After Undeveloped changed its name and branding to DAN on June 19 a few people complained about the new domain name landing pages displaying DAN.com. Up until then domain names for sale at Undeveloped had …

NameSilo announced that it has surpassed 3 million active domains under management. This comes less than 10 months after surpassing 2 million active domains in September 2018. This continued growth puts NameSilo in the top …

GoDaddy posted a new video on YouTube called “How Much Does a Domain Cost – And Why?”. The video targets newbies in domain names. BTW “at their mercy” is a key phrase in the video. …

ICA, the Internet Commerce Association, sent a letter today asking ICANN for an explanation of the .org decision. ICA says that ICANN’s decision to execute the new .org Registry Agreement despite overwhelming public opposition is …

In case anyone in this domain name industry really cares, the .org Registry Agreement contract was not the only contract renewed by ICANN. The .info, .biz and .asia Registry Agreement contracts were renewed too on …

1,835,159 unclaimed .uk domain names will be released in the next few days. UK domain registrants with a third-level domain (.co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .plc.uk or .ltd.uk) had until 06:00 BST (UTC+1) on Tuesday, 25th …