Domaining News

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published an article with the title “Healthy Domains Initiative Isn’t Healthy for the Internet” going against the new initiative by the Domain Name Association. The (EFF) made it pretty clear by …

The 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report was published and it has some very interesting findings on how NGOs worldwide use domain names, web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and internet security, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2016. Verisign ended 2016 with 142.2 million .com and .net domain …

Namejet released it’s January 2017 domain name auctions report that includes a lot of 3 letter and 4 letter .com and some 1-word .coms. Namejet sold 128 (122 domains in December) domains in January for …

OnlineDomain.com just reached a big milestone. A couple of days back it surpassed 1,000,000 page views. When I started the blog less than 5 years ago I would have never imagined reaching such a number. …

“Healthy Domains Initiative” (HDI) establishes voluntary practices aimed at safeguarding the evolution of the domain name system and defines measures for self-regulation. The Domain Name Association (The DNA), the Internet domain industry’s trade association, announced …

I did some of my own research on the Super Bowl ads based on the Marketing Land statistics and it quite interesting: 39% of all Super Bowl ads this year had a domain name shown, …

The New York Internet Society passed a resolution that called for the city of New York to hold public hearings before renewing its contract with Neustar Inc. for the operation of the .nyc TLD. The …

A .org domain name selling for $55,000 is not something you see everyday. But .org domain names are consistent sellers and many are selling for 5-figures. Sedo had the highest .org reported sale of the …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), and Donuts Inc. announced today the extension of their agreement, which provides back-end registry services to Donuts’ broad array of nearly 200 new generic Top Level Domains (new gTLDs). “We have …

DropCatch.com is reducing the starting price for .COM and .NET discount club backorders for the month of February. This promotion is only for the Discount Club. Regular backorder prices do not change. The Discount Club is …

GoDaddy released today an update to its 2-factor security. When you enable the 2-factor authentication (2FA), every time you perform a high-risk task (like changing your username) GoDaddy will require a code you must enter. …

While many people were looking at the GoDaddy, Squarespace and Wix.com ads during Super Bowl 2017 and while Tom Brady’s Patriots were making a comeback against the Falcons (and then went on to win in …

GoDaddy issued a press release today saying it achieved the best “new customer” Sunday in its 20-year company history with its Super Bowl 2017 ad: Best-ever ‘new customer’ registrations & sign-ups on a Sunday 19 …