Domaining News

MarkMonitor, a brand protection agency, published the updated (2017 version) domain name management handbook that everyone working with domain names (including domain name investors) should read at least once. Even if you are familiar with most …

Namecheap announced that it will be discontinuing several of the Uniregistry and XYZ domain name extensions (plus .rich and .luxury) on September 7, 2017. Kudos to Namecheap! The domain name registrar said that it has …

The first ever NameSummit conference was held this week at the Hilton Midtown in New York City. The .CLUB team participated in this new conference with CMO, Jeff Sass giving a keynote presentation on Monday …

GGRG Brokerage Consulting and Giuseppe Graziano published the 2nd quarter of 2017 Liquid Domains Market Overview partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com. QUALITY IS IN, QUANTITY IS OUT. Increased end user …

George Kirikos has been arguing about the New gTLD sunrise success with the ICANN community and the GNSO Working Group. In my opinion his views are 100% correct and his suggested procedure could save all …

John Berryhill sent out a few tweets on August 11, 2017 warning people about tmview.com being a spoofing webpage. The intellectual property attorney believes that the fake web page is spoofing TMview that is the …

The DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report (Q2/2017) 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 …

Namejet updated its terms of use on August 10, 2017. The new terms include a new section called “Shill Bidding Policy”. Now the Namejet terms clearly state that shill bidding is not permitted in its …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of July 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are no common keyword in the .com …

ICANN announced the publication of the report, “Statistical Analysis of DNS Abuse in gTLDs” [PDF, 2.23 MB]. The study aims to compare rates of these activities between new and legacy gTLDs, as well as employs …

Donuts successfully completed the acquisition of Rightside and that is good news for registrars and their end customers with Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) programs. From now on companies interested in brand protection will not …

Donuts Inc., today announced that it has closed a $110 million credit facility led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of SVB Financial Group), and with participation from Cadence Bank, N.A., Comerica Bank, Pacific Western Bank, and Umpqua Bank.  This debt …

Rick Schwartz sent out a tweet yesterday saying: “I NEVER buy a #domain asking question: Is this $1k domain worth $2k? I ask a completely different question & get different result!!” Of course I immediately …

Tucows Inc. (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC), today reported its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. All figures are in U.S. dollars. Revenue went up compared to Q2 2016 after the Enom acquisition from …