Domain Name News

Michael Castello, of Castello Brothers LLC, announced the sale of the domain name Traveler.com. The announcement came in a comment on DomainInvesting.com. Michael Castello did not disclose any more details for this sale and the domain …

Over the past year Google has been preparing to meet the requirements of the GDPR, the new data protection law coming into force on 25 May 2018. The GDPR affects European and non-European businesses using …

BTB.com According to a Chinese finance website the domain name BTB.com was sold for 500 bitcoins (BTC). At the time the article was written that would be about $4 million. But someone claims the domain …

Göran Marby, President and CEO of ICANN, seems to pretend that he doesn’t understand how much more money than it should ICANN is spending every year. He published a blog post called “Budget Discussions at …

Here is how any domain name owner that has a domain name registered at GoDaddy can Opt-out of domain name WHOIS masking. On January 25, 2018, GoDaddy began masking (blocking) the Registrant name, phone and …

WIPO domain name cybersquatting cases reach new record in 2017 increasing by 1.3%. The total number of WIPO domain name cases were 3,074 in 2017 compared to 3,036 in 2016. But just one or two …

The domain name Purple.com was sold for $900,000 in 2017. The sales price was reported in a SEC filing from PURPLE INNOVATION, LLC. (Note 5, Page 14) Purple Innovation is an American comfort technology company …

Some people think they somehow deserve a domain name so they try to acquire it using baseless and empty legal threats and/or subtle indirect threats. I received an inquiry for a 2-word .com 2 weeks …

CentralNic Group Plc made an announcement today after some recent industry speculation. The Company confirmed that discussions are taking place regarding the potential combination of CentralNic and KeyDrive S.A. and its subsidiaries including domain reseller …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of February 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are no common keywords in the 2 …

Braden Pollock interviews Nat Cohen about the “Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy” (UDRP). “Nat Cohen is a prominent full-time domain name investor with decades of experience in the industry. He primarily focuses on investing in quality …

China has added many 2nd level domains to the .cn ccTLD extension. Allegravita wrote a blog post explaining the latest changes to Chinese domain names. “The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China …

Namejet released its February 2018 domain name auctions report that includes the domains that were sold at the NamesCon live and online auction. Namejet sold 101 domains in February but it would be just 59 …

Edward Snowden and Max Schrems were announced today as CloudFest keynote address speakers. Schrems and Snowden were two of the people that convinced the European Parliament that the rules and regulations surrounding data privacy needed to be …