Domain Name News

DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC:DGTW) provided a condensed update on the status of the SmartWeb initiative and the start of Blockchain tokenization of the Company’s domain name portfolio. In May 2017, DigitalTown launched an initiative called SmartWeb …

Knock Knock Whois There (KKWT), the .blog registry, is teaming up with Automattic, its parent company and the company behind WordPress.com, to bring a higher awareness and usage of new TLDs through the launch of …

Escrow.com sales volume went down 25% from $24M to $18M. According to Escrow.com, the most traded category in Q4 was 3C .com domains ($6.4M), followed by 4Ls at $4.6M and 3N .com domains at $3.97M, …

Here are the first 10 domain name appraisals from Mike Mann and AccurateAppraisals.com. The average price of the 10 appraisals was $340,062. The lowest price was $68,221 and the highest price was $1,261,555. RegentStreet.com $246,555 …

In January the most popular articles were about Topcoin, GoDaddy violating ICANN rules AND having no mobile APP, CryptoWorld.com selling for $195,000, New gTLDs, Home.Loans selling for $500,000 and some other subjects. About 220 comments …

Since December last year, Efty has been offering SSL certificates for all custom marketplace sites on the Growth and Professional plans and as of today, they’ve made it possible to start redirecting buyers to SSL secured …

Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the fourth quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 332.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs),  an increase of  approximately …

Mike Mann reported selling 17 domain names in January for a total of $416,716. Prices started at $4,888 and went up to $195,000. Highest reported sale was CryptoWorld.com for $195,000. All 17 of the sold …

Paul Nicks talked in Las Vegas during NamesCon 2018 about how it is like operating one the largest domain name portfolios in the world, the NameFind-GoDaddy portfolio. “Learn how one of the largest domain investors …

Fabulous.com sent out a notice that it will be migrating to a new website on Wednesday, February 28. The site will be unavailable for a bit on this day. Migration updates will be posted via …

Donuts Inc. today announced it has acquired the .TRAVEL domain name extension from registry operator Tralliance Registry Management Company. The .TRAVEL domain becomes Donuts’ 239th TLD, and the centerpiece of an already-robust portfolio of travel …

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

ICANN will not delegate the strings .CORP, .HOME, and .MAIL in the 2012 round of the New gTLD Program. The ICANN Board has directed the President and CEO to, upon withdrawal of the remaining 20 …

Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the .org and .ngo registry, today released the results of the third annual Global NGO Technology Report, an annual research project that analyzes how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …