Domaining News

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 …

During NamesCon in Las Vegas .Club launched some new things at www.get.club: Universal .CLUB Search – search for any .CLUB domain and get WHOIS information if it is registered, or find easy purchase options if …

I decided to start selling my domain names at GoDaddy. The experience has been far from smooth with several problems arising all the time. It seems that the smallest and most obvious things that a …

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GoDaddy released on YouTube their new ad for Super Bowl 2017. The halftime ad pushes GoDaddy’s Website Builder named GoCentral: “The Internet wants you. Build a better website in less than an hour with GoCentral.” …

Someone kept emailing me about a .xyz domain name he was trying to sell. I own the .com for several years and as you can imagine I wasn’t that interested in the .xyz. This was …

.Global has an idea that can help domain name investors sell more .global domains. But this is an idea that other registries can follow too. The .Global registry designed a “domains portal” specifically for domain …