Domaining News

Afilias announced today the acquisition of StartingDot, the Registry Operator for 3 new TLDs: .ARCHI, .BIO and .SKI. The acquisition agreement is part of Afilias’ ongoing program of acquiring new TLDs to add to its portfolio. …

Effective at 16:00 UTC on October 1, 2016, Donuts will adjust downward the standard wholesale price for new, non-premium registrations in .BUSINESS and .COMPANY. Donuts says that “This adjustment better aligns registration prices with emerging …

The domain name CourtneyLove.com expired and was auctioned yesterday at GoDaddy for $3,350. The GoDaddy auction for the 18 year old domain name attracted some interest and 38 bids were made from 12 bidders. The domain was originally …

Since 2002 that I have been in Domaining I have seen a lot. But this single page containing 100+ of trademark domain names was really a (bad) surprise. I have never seen anything like this …

Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB Domains, gives a talk called “All In A Name: How New Meaningful Domain Extensions Can Drive More Business” at HostingCon 2016 in New Orleans. Watch the video here:

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2016. GoDaddy also announced that Ray Winborne has joined the company as its new Chief Financial Officer and Scott Wagner has …

According to TheDomains.com “Sedo has decided to stop reporting the total weekly transaction number and the percentage of buy it now transactions.”. WOW. I didn’t expect that from Sedo. Or actually I did. I guess …

You can now vote for the 2016 domain industry awards that will be announced at THE Domain Conference Keynote and Awards Luncheon  on Tuesday, September 13th. You can vote until Friday morning so you need to …

These are the top domain name articles from July 2016. The most popular articles were about Sedo, Pokemon Go, DomainTools, .Web and Verisign, Shark Tank, .CO and other subjects. July 2016 was another great month at OnlineDomain.com …

.Net domain name wholesale price goes up again on February 1st, 2017. That means you have a few months notice to renew your .net domain names for 1 to 10 years so you can save a …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) today announced the following information pertaining to the .web top-level domain (TLD): “The Company entered into an agreement with Nu Dot Co LLC wherein the Company provided funds for Nu Dot Co’s …

So Verisign paid $135 million to get the exclusive rights to the .web new domain name extension. But why and what you should expect or rather NOT to expect? The price was very high but Verisign …

On 27 July 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program auction to resolve contention for .WEB and .WEBS. Auction serves as the method of last resort for …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2016. Business Highlights Verisign Registry Services added 0.78 million net new names during the second quarter, ending with 143.2 million .com and …