Domain Name News

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 …

The ICANN 61 Public Meeting takes place from 10-15 March 2018 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This six-day meeting will be focused on outreach, capacity building, and showcasing ICANN’s work to a broader global audience. …

Domaining Europe will transition into NamesCon Europe beginning with the upcoming June 7-9th event in Valencia, Spain. Dietmar Stefitz, who founded Domaining Europe in 2008, will directly manage the 2018 event with the assistance of …

In 2018, ICANN is focused on developing and soliciting input on interim models for collecting registration data and implementing registration directory services to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ICANN’s …

These are the 41 highest selling New gTLD domain names of all 2017. Why 41? Because all 41 domains below were sold for $10,000 or more either by the respective registry or by a domain …

Fabulous started migrating to the new Fabulous.com yesterday and the migration seems to have been completed today. Not exactly sure if they have finished 100% of the migration but the new website is up and running. …

I was moving 115 domains out of Uniregistry today and while doing so I found a bug in their system. I used the export to CSV tool to get the auth codes for all my …

The DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report Q4/2017 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 …

I remember it very vividly. I wanted to buy a domain name that was in an auction in 2014. I totally forgot to bid for the domain name and I was bummed. The domain name …

“Domain Name Rights Coalition“, a new organization protecting the rights of domain name registrants was founded. The organization says it is “dedicated to protecting the rights of Internet Domain Name Registrants and fight for fair …

Namejet released it’s January 2018 domain name auctions report that includes many 1-word and 2-word domains and a few numerics. Namejet sold 103 (141 domains in December) domains in January for a total of $459,009 …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), reported complete financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2017. GoDaddy’s domain name revenue grew by almost 14% in 2017. Revenue grew from $927.8 million in 2016 to …

Another clueless “buyer” has arrived. What else is new? He asked if I was selling one of my domain names and what the price was. I replied with a $9,500 quote. All good this far… …

Google announced that they have started offering automatic ads called “AdSense Auto ads”. AdSense Auto ads is a new way to place ads on your website. Auto ads use machine learning to make smart placement …