Domain Name News

Verisign made an interesting video on how the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure works. It is mostly directed to a novice level but it is quite interesting to watch. It is meant to be a …

Mike Mann reported selling 10 domain names in August for a total of $126,128. Prices started at $1,288 and went up to $29,888. All 10 domains were .com. The average reported domain sales price was …

.CHARITY domains, a Donuts Inc. new extension, entered general availability yesterday. According to Namestat.org there are 839 .charity domains registered today. There were 307 before general availability started including some registry domains, sunrise domains and …

I received many emails today from Google for many of my websites telling me that Google Mobile-first indexing has been enabled. I got emails for many of my websites and all of them are build …

Afilias Australia Pty Ltd announced today that it has set the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for Largest migration of an internet top-level domain in a single transition following its transfer of 3,153,979 .au domain names on …

Earlier in May, Giuseppe Graziano announced the Early Access version of LXME, the Liquid Domain Market Exchange. Today LXME officially launched and is now live. LXME is for 3 letter .com domain names only. It is …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that a German High Court has ruled against ICANN’s plea to reconsider the Court’s own decision. ICANN has been pursuing a preliminary injunction from the …

George Nagy replaced Rob Monster as the Digital Town CEO. The change was made last Friday, September 14. Rob Monster stepped down as CEO, and also off of the Board of Directors of Digital Town. …

MMX is running a domain hack auction that will overlap with the MERGE conference. Some domains, like e.g. channel.surf, I would personally not categorize as hacks. The 7-day public auctions are on Namejet. There are …

The Forum (previously known as the National Arbitration Forum), one of the five ICANN approved domain name dispute resolution service providers, announced today that is has added a few new FAQs regarding GDPR and other …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …