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Google Domains Offers A Free Domain Name

Google Domains wants to grow its domain name business so they are now offering one free domain name (.com, .net, .org, .biz, or .info, a $12 value) to each of their customers. The free domain …

How DigitalTown Will Use 11,000 .City Domains (DT Bought 400 .City Domains In The Aftermarket)

Robert Monster, CEO of DigitalTown.com and Epik.com, made a lengthy comment (and then a few more smaller comments) on the article I wrote about the announcement of the new DigitalTown platform involving 11,000 .City domain …

.CO Has Its First Auction In China On 22.CN (CY.co, XD.co, XN.co, etc.)

.CO, part of Neustar, Inc., will launch its first Chinese auction on July 5. The auction, which will be held exclusively on Chinese auction platform 22.cn, will offer many two-letter domains like CY.co and XN.co. The auction concludes …

Is Sedo Slowly Dying?

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 …

Video: Summary of Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou, China

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 Announces .CITY Domain Network – Buys 11,000 .City Domain Names

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. …

GoDaddy Warns About Phishing Email Targeting Valuable Domain Names

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 Wants To Buy Rightside’s 30+ Domain Extensions For $70 Million

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 …

No Action Will Be Taken Yet Against .EU Domain Names Registered By Residents In UK

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 …

Report: 92% Of NGOs Have A Website (70% .ORG, 9% .COM, 18% ccTLDs & others)

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 Files Ontario Lawsuit To Halt Transfer Of The Domain Name Hayter.com

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 Releases New Website, Logo & Blog

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 New gTLD Domain Name Auction (find .work, customer .care, u .fit)

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 …

CEOs of .Club & .XYZ Go On A Twitter Battle (“.CLUB will never sink to a penny!”)

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: …