Mike Mann announced that he sold the domain name DollarCity.com for $90,000. But there is more to the story. He actually sold the domain name to the company that filed a UDRP complaint for this …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: fan, hotels, grid, grad, email, apps
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of August 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More »Donuts to be acquired by private equity firm Abry Partners
Donuts Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Abry Partners, a leading private equity firm. Terms and timing of the agreement were not disclosed. Donuts holds the world’s …
Read More ».GLOBAL domains become 4 years old (infographic)
4 years have passed since .GLOBAL was launched. Ever since the launch, .GLOBAL has seen steady growth rate. It is currently standing at about 43,000 registered domain names. You can see all domain name sales from the .global registry …
Read More »Afilias moves to the US
Afilias announced today that it has formally established a new corporate parent entity, Afilias, Inc. of Delaware, USA. Afilias plc of Ireland is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias, Inc. Afilias further announced the …
Read More »“Your email address says a lot about your taste in domains.”
So what else is new? I got an inquiry from a clueless guy from Australia that wanted to buy my one word .us domain name. Of course this was an upgrade if you consider that …
Read More ».tokyo has reached 100,000 domain name registrations
GMO Registry announced that .tokyo (https://hello.tokyo/en), the Top Level Domain (hereafter “TLD”) representing Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over 4 years since .tokyo opened for business …
Read More »Paul Keating attempts to bring some common sense to ICANN
Paul Keating sent a letter to the ICANN board of directors about the issue of “IGO-INGO access to curative rights protection mechanisms (PDP)”. Paul Keating is a very well known lawyer in the domain name …
Read More »Growth rates in .com are increasing while .net is contracting
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q2/2018 has been published. The report covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with additional focus on the European ccTLD …
Read More »If ICANN completely kills whois, GDPR will only be one of their problems
Göran Marby, ICANN President and CEO, wrote a blog post about a possible unified access model that was published by ICANN for community input. I don’t see much progress from ICANN since May that GDPR went into …
Read More ».CLUB ranks in top 25% of the 2018 Inc. 5000 fastest growing private companies in the U.S.
Inc. magazine revealed that Fort Lauderdale based .CLUB Domains, LLC is No. 1164 on its 37th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look …
Read More »Internet grows to 339.8 million domains in Q2 2018
Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the second quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 339.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately …
Read More »Buzzfeed threatens Mike Mann and his domain name Tasty.com
Buzzfeed is threatening Mike Mann and his Tasty.com. Seems like Buzzfeed, that is running Tasty.co, wants to upgrade from the .co to the .com by stealing a domain name that was registered and owned by Mike …
Read More »GoDaddy domain auctions and payments – Let’s set the record straight…
Last week Dispute.com was auctioned at GoDaddy auctions for $65,000 but the winning bidder could not make payment in the time frame that GoDaddy requires. Eventually the domain went to the 6th bidder that paid …
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