Domain Name News

November was a slower month than October but still had some important articles. The most popular articles were about “your best domains”, GoDaddy, Rick Schwartz, Mark Cuban, Mike Mann, Afternic and some other subjects. About …

Twice in the past month I had 2 buyers change the terms of the domain name transaction after we had agreed and I had setup the escrow transaction. In these 2 cases both changed their …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that the third quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 330.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations as …

Afilias Australia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias plc, has been appointed to provide registry services for the .au domain from 1 July 2018 as part of auDA’s Registry Transformation Project. Afilias was one …

GoDaddy will just cancel your domain name listing from GoDaddy Auctions if it gets an offer from an “unverified” buyer! An unverified buyer is a actually what they call a deadbeat buyer. Someone that makes …

Mike Mann reported selling 9 domain names in November for a total of $171,164. Prices started at $2,888 and went up to $39,000. Mike made the following tweet on November 13: “Sold 15 premium .Com …

GoDaddy changed their renewal/expiry domain name policy and owners now have 30 days after the expiration date to renew their domains. At that time the domain name is already in an expired domain name auction …

Efty announced today that they are bringing SSL (HTTPS) encryption to Efty marketplaces for all users on the Growth, Pro and Lifetime plans. Here is how Efty describes how this is important and how to …

Francois Carrillo, owner of domaining.com, announced today that the domain name news feed from Google has been disabled on domaining.com. Apparently Francois got tired of cleaning the feed of irrelevant or duplicate content. Francois said, …

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

Radix revealed that it has reached $11.7 million in annual revenue and will surpass the $12 million milestone before the end of  the calendar year 2017. This is the first time that Radix, a self-funded …

CentralNic announced today that the acquisition of SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive country code top-level domain for Slovakia, .sk, has now been completed. The Company’s agreement to acquire SK-NIC, the manager of the exclusive …

DropCatch.com has received a fair amount of criticism in the past few weeks because of some non-paying bidders and re-auctions. They said there was a glitch with a bidder’s account that allowed him to not …

Namejet released it’s November 2017 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 3-letter .com domains. People seem to liquidating these. Namejet sold 96 (112 domains in October) domains in October for a total …