Domain Name News

Tucows and Enom (owned by Tucows) gave some more details on how their gated whois will work after GDPR. Tucows claims that they will ensure that only those with a legitimate interest are given access …

Mike Mann wtote on social media: “Every day there is at least one domain being deleted that is worth a million dollars. Not easy to find and get it first.” Andrew Rosener replied on twitter: …

Donuts Inc. today announced it has re-acquired the .fan top-level domain (TLD), making it the 241st TLD in Donuts’ portfolio. .fan names are anticipated to be generally available in mid-September. “We are excited to add .fan to …

.CLUB CMO Jeff Sass gave a keynote speech at NamesCon Europe 2018. “Fake words in names can be like Fake News – they can lead you to something other than the desired result. So-called “brandable” …

In the past months, Undeveloped had many conversations with other industry players, but no real commitments have been made by other parties to actually make DAN an industry powered Domain Automation Network. Undeveloped has decided …

Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs),  an increase of  approximately …

ICANN continues being idiots by still going against Tucows for no reason other to not do anything about GDPR and blame it all on German courts. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) …

Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB, talked at the 2018 Global Digital Summit (GDS). He discussed what the 4 key components are on how to start, scale, exit and repeat a company. GDS 2018 was held …

Intercap Holdings Inc. announced the acquisition of the new domain name extension, following ICANN’s consent to the change of control. As the first domain ending in the Intercap Holdings portfolio, .inc is being brought to …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of May 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There were 2 common keywords in the 2 …

Everybody is complaining about the Personal Data Regulation (GDPR), where in some cases all personal contact information in WHOIS databases has become hidden. This however will not be the case for Danish domain names (the …

NamesCon Europe ended on Saturday. It was the 10th year of the European domain name conference that was previously known as Domaining Europe. Attendees generously donated 21 domain names that were made available for a …

Mike Mann reported selling 11 domain names in May for a total of $205,440. Prices started at $4,888 and went up to $40,000. All 11 of the sold domains were .com. The average reported domain …

Morgan Freeman, the 81 year old American actor, forgot to renew his domain name morganfreeman.com. The domain name expired and now has a new owner. Morgan Freeman lost his domain name because he did not …