Domaining News

SnapNames announced today that the minimum price for a domain name backorder will increase from $69.00 to $79.00 USD. This rate increase will also affect deleting domain name backorders placed at NameJet.com. This is the …

Finally Sedo and Christoph Holler, Sedo’s Marketing & PR Manager, got 5 minutes to send me an email telling me they don’t like me. I knew that (and I don’t care as I don’t like …

The Domain Name Association (DNA) created an infographic giving “10 Ways To Use Domain Names To Enhance Your Brand”. “What’s in a name? As a marketer you know that names are your opportunity to make …

.CO, part of Neustar, Inc., had its first domain name auction in China. The auction, which was held exclusively on Chinese auction platform 22.cn, offered 19 two-letter domains like CY.co and XN.co. The auction concluded today July …

“CA co-founder Russell Artzt and longtime CA chief architect Vince Re today announced the launch of Digital Associates, a New York-based software company offering cloud-based digital-marketing solutions that help companies discover, understand and analyze their …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” is out after being on both lists …

June .CLUB premium name sales were led by an auction of 20 names by Chinese Registrar West.CN. In all, 159 .CLUB premium names were sold in June for a total of $109,269.75. Proceeds of the …

Escrow.com announced today that it hit one million registered users and that it is moving its headquarters to San Francisco. “This follows exceptional financial performance by the payments business since being acquired by ASX-listed Freelancer.com …

Undeveloped.com had a New gTLD domain name auction. This was the second auction for the Undeveloped.com platform after the premium .com and ccTLD auction. The auction ran from the 20th June to the 6th July and …

Read here the top domain name articles from June 2016. The most popular articles were about Sedo, Chinese domaining, .XYZ, CentralNic, DigitalTown, Mike Mann and other subjects. June 2016 was another great month at OnlineDomain.com …

I got an email from a well known domain name spammer you all probably know: Simonas. I guess most people in domaining have received emails from him. Yes, he is a spammer as he will …

Namejet released it’s June 2016 domain name auctions report that includes less 3L .com than the previous months but still has a few numeric domains. Namejet sold 127 (167 domains in May) domains in June …

Sedo has completely cut me off after I wrote 2 articles last week about Sedo’s declining numbers in number of sold domains and criticizing many of the issues they have for years and their lack …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful consideration and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, has rejected the unsolicited proposal from Donuts Inc. to acquire Rightside’s …