Domain Name News

CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) announced audited results ahead of consensus forecasts for the year ended 31 December 2018. Financial Summary Revenue up 100% to £42.7m (2017 £21.4m*) Gross Profit up 69% to £19.7m (2017: £11.6m*) Adjusted …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC) reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Tucows first quarter 2019 results include 13 days of contribution of Ascio Technologies …

For years now I have been complaining that there is not enough time to pay by wire transfer for a domain name won at GoDaddy auctions. Last time I wrote about this was last summer: …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the locations for two of the 2021 ICANN Public Meetings. Cancún, Mexico, will host ICANN70 from 20-25 March 2021. The Community Forum will be held …

Please spend 5 minutes TODAY to send an email to ICANN about opposing the .asia domain name price increase by instituting a price cap! This is the email address to use: comments-asia-renewal-27mar19@icann.org You just send …

The .Club registry reported their 2019 domain name sales so far including Business.Club that was sold for $60,936 at Names.Club. Business.Club is now the leading New gTLD sale of 2019. You can see all New …

.CLUB Domains, LLC has launched the Trademark Sentry Unlimited Name Blocking Service, designed to offer qualified brands and trademark holders protection in the .CLUB namespace. The Unlimited Name Blocking Service (UNBS) protects a trademark from …

Sedo created a fuss today about removing the minimum fee for sold domains. First of all, it is not for all domains AND this “promotion” runs only through the end of 2019! This promotion runs …

NamesCon Europe 2019 announced the topics covered by the expert panels. Some of the topics our expert panels will be covering include: Dark Horses and Long-Shot Opportunities: Where to Invest in Today’s nTLD Market On the …

This is not just about .asia that no one cares about. Not even .org. It is about ICANN and the legacy registries starting an attack on all our domain names. It started with Verisign asking …

The Verisign .com monopoly reported a huge operating margin that was 65.4 percent for the first quarter of 2019. Instead of being grateful for this gift that it is being given they are asking for .com …

Kevin Murphy wrote a blog post “ICA rallies the troops to defeat .org price hikes. It won’t work” that mentioned a few opinions that I don’t agree with. Kevin said that “the retail price of …

Namecheap is the first registrar that I see opposing the removal of price caps on several legacy top level domains such as .org, .info and .biz. (Also don’t forget .asia.) If you see any other …

The ICA has created an easy-to-use Form for you to submit your objections to ICANN regarding its proposed removal of all price caps on several domain name extensions. Although the form focuses on .org you …