Domain Name News

GoDaddy has been blocking whois access at Port 43 for years… It returns the date related information of each domain name, nameserver info and the registrant name. It has been blocking address, telephone and email …

Radix published its premium domains report for the 2nd half of 2017. This report gives a full lowdown on all premium sales Radix TLDs for the period 1st July to 31st Dec 2017. Radix’s premium names are available …

.NYC celebrated its 3rd year anniversary, so they shared a few highlights to showcase how New Yorkers have helped to build and grow the .nyc domain. The .nyc domain extension consistently ranks in the top …

CentralNic announced that on 8th January 2018 it completed the purchase of a number of portfolios of premium domain names with .com as their suffix, for an aggregate consideration of £2.5 million, satisfied from the …

Gauss Research Laboratories, the .PR ccTLD manager, announced that it has selected Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, to provide technical services to support Puerto Rico’s country code top level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet, …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of December 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. Crypto related keywords dominate the list like last …

DNC Holdings, dba Directnic.com acquired Fabulous.com back in November. Mike Robertson is coming back to Fabulous.com after being for over 3 years with Directnic. He was for 9 years at Fabulous before joining Directnic.com Fabulous.com …

Namecheap announced in December last year that they will be using their direct ICANN registrar accreditation for all new domain registrations, renewals and transfers. Today they start transferring all existing Namecheap-managed domain registrations from Enom’s sponsorship …

NamesCon is just 3 weeks away and the conference is now offering 5 free tickets to readers of OnlineDomain.com. NamesCon Global 2018 will be held in Las Vegas in January 28-31, 2018. The give away …

Namejet released it’s December 2017 domain name auctions report that includes some 3 and 4 letter .com domains and many 1-word domains. Namejet sold 141 (96 domains in November) domains in December for a total of $859,043 …

We are almost 4 years into the New gTLD program and domain name registrations have fallen below the 20 million mark. These are the domain name registrations that according to NameStat.org are in the zone …

Undeveloped.com launched a new way to setup “brand for sale” domain name landing pages. “To help your buyers visualize better which brand they’re acquiring and why the price for quality names is justified, we’ve launched …

DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. DMARC is a way to make it easier for email senders and receivers to determine whether or …

Mike Berkens domain name investor and blogger at TheDomains.com has filed a lawsuit against Twitter after his Twitter account @TheDomains was hacked on the 22nd of December, 2017. Mike Berkens is using a temporary Twitter …