Domain Name News

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 …

Mike Mann reported selling 11 domain names in February for a total of $219,526. Prices started at $5,000 and went up to $50,000. All 11 of the sold domains were .com. The average reported domain …

In February the most popular articles were about DigitalTown, Mike Mann, domain name value, domain appraisals, .blog, a new domain name organization, GoDaddy and some other subjects. See here the Top 5 domain name articles …

Today is Move Your Domain Day and Namecheap customers are experiencing issues or delays in transferring domains from GoDaddy over to Namecheap. As many customers have recently complained of transfer issues, Namecheap suspects that GoDaddy …

Today it is Move Your Domain Day 2018 over at Namecheap and they are helping their customers protect Internet freedom by donating up to $1.50 per domain transfer to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Transfer …

Neustar shared a guide with all the lessons learned from the launch of .neustar. One of the biggest challenges was moving to the .brand email addresses. Essentially they explained how they moved from their previous …

From 25 May 2018, the .UK WHOIS will no longer display the registrant’s name or address, unless they have given permission to do so. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on …