Domaining News

DropCatch is expanding its reach on backorders to include .ORG domain names. In addition to .COM, .NET, .CC, and .TV, you may now place regular backorders on dropping .ORG domain names through DropCatch.com. Backorders for …

There were 149 New gTLD domain name sales added in Sold.Domains database this week. Sold.Domains lists all public New gTLD sales and has a search function to find sales by extension or keyword. 141 of …

Starting with August 29, 2016 nic.at releases one and two character domains under the TLD .at. Until now the minimum length of a domain name under the top-level domain .at has been three characters. This …

I just cancelled my DomainTools account. Price is going up for me from $49,95 to $99 per month today the 21st of July. This date is not the same for all customers. Some might have …

Escrow.com announced that from July 2016, an additional three new agents will be joining the Customer Service team to assist customers in completing their transactions online. The Escrow.com team has grown rapidly in the first …

I got an inquiry for a 4 letter first name .org domain name. I quoted a high 4-figure price and never heard back. I believe my price was appropriate for the domain name if you …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that approximately 12 million domain names were added to the internet in the first quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 326.4 million …

I have been watching Shark Tank, the TV series on ABC, for the past 3 weeks. Never watched a single episode before that. I know, I know… How is this possible? Well we don’t get …

There were a lot of .io domains sold in June at Flippa, just like last month. There are other ccTLDs in the sales report as well but of course sales are dominated by .com. Highest …

Rightside announced some of the highlights of the first half of 2016 regarding premium domain name sales. They also announced “The Power of Two” campaign for September that will be the release of previously unavailable two-letter …

The domain name PokemonGo.net was auctioned on Saturday, July 16, for $20,950. The domain PokemonGo.net was originally registered in 2008, it expired in 2011 and re-registered. Then this July it expired and was again available …

Pheenix announced that it is increasing the price of domain name backorders and is also introducing .xyz backorders. “Due to price increases by both ICANN and registries, beginning August 1, 2016, pricing for Gold backorders …

Rand Fishkin, of MOZ, posted a video on “How to Choose a Domain Name That Works For SEO And Branding”. Here are Rand’s 8 rules: Make it brandable. Make it pronounceable. Make it as short …

At the 2016 eShow Brasil conference in Sao Paolo Brazil, .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass gave this presentation on “How New Domain Names Are A Marketer’s Best Friend.” (Thanks to Andres Varona of AM Global for …