Domaining News

I have been following the Sedo domain name sales reports for years now. This week’s report was the smallest I have seen. Sedo domain name sales have been on a steady decline for 3-4 years …

Pinkard Alan ‘Pinky’ Brand attended the Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou, a conference with over 1,000 attendees. On behalf of ChopChop.domains, he put together the following video summary that will give you a little taste …

DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC PINK: DGTW) today announced that it has acquired more than 11,000 .CITY domains for use with an international rollout of the DigitalTown’s flagship Smart City Platform and the Global Smart City Network. …

Joe Styler, GoDaddy’s Aftermarket Product Manager, issued a warning on NamePros about a new phishing email targeting owners of valuable domain names registered with GoDaddy. These kind of phishing emails are not uncommon so people …

Donuts Inc., the largest New gTLD registry, today publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s entire registry of new generic top-level domains (New gTLDs) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash …

EURid, the .eu and .ею domain name registry, issued a statement today regarding the United Kingdom referendum results and .eu domains owned by UK residents. On 23 June 2016 voters in the UK referendum expressed …

The Public Interest Registry and the Nonprofit Tech for Good published the report of a research project: “2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report”. This is an inaugural effort to gain a better understanding of how …

Tucows filed an Ontario lawsuit to halt the transfer of the domain name Hayter.com and to stop the UDRP proceedings. Tucows, an ICANN accredited registrar, is also the owner of a big portfolio of domain …

eNom, an ICANN accredited registrar that is part of Rightside, released its new website and logo today as well as a new blog. Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside, announced the new site: Fresh new @enom …

Undeveloped.com is having a New gTLD domain name auction. This is the second auction for the Undeveloped.com platform after the premium .com and ccTLD auction that ended last week. The auction runs from the 20th June to …

It all started with a Tweet from Colin Campbell, CEO of .Club, then Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ, replied and the battle of the New gTLDs began! Here is the timeline of the twitter battle: …

Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from the last month or so. Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers more than 250,000 premium domain names for …

The municipality of Samos, a Greek island in the Aegean sea, paid 3,159 Euro for a 5-minute job assignment. The price included Greek 24% VAT tax. Specifically they paid Andreas Skalkos (e-samos) to forward 3 …

On the 14th of June Undeveloped’s 1st premium domain name auction ended. The auction included short domains like UPD.com and premium product specific domains like RedWine.com but unfortunately most of these premium domains did not met the …