Domaining News

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 .Mom domain extension launched yesterday by Uniregistry that is owned by Frank Schilling. In less than 24 hours after general availability a Greek registrant contacted no other than Frank Schilling to sell him a …

CentralNic sent out a chilling email informing several of its clients that the domains they have bought, build into websites and have been renewing for years will be deleted in a year from now. CentralNic …

I was checking whois on the domain name 1.xyz, that sold for $182,971, while researching for this article questioning some of the high value .xyz domain sales. I discovered by accident that the XYZ registry …

There were quite a few LLLL.com domain name sales these 2 months, many .io domains and a few New gTLDs. Highest domain name sale for the month April at Flippa was QTO.com that sold for $23,508. The …

GoDaddy‘s newest commercial is out and it seems that former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal likes the new Shaq made of cheese that is featured in the ad. The ad is part of the new ‘Go You’ …

Rightside, a new domain name extension registry, today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016 starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Rightside believes .GAMES …

Go Daddy had a blab hangout on the best practices people should follow to protect their domain names from theft. Domain security is a very important issue and this video covers some of the most …

CNNIC and Verisign signed on April 19 an agreement for the real name verification service of Verisign’s .COM and .NET top-level domains. Aiming to the healthy development of the Chinese domain name industry, CNNIC will provide …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results and details about .com and .net registrations and renewals for the first quarter of 2016. Business Highlights: Verisign Registry Services added 2.65 million net new names during …

Google introduced what they call AdSense’s next generation ads. Page-level ads is a family of ad formats that offer a new and innovative way to help you earn money from your mobile content. With Page-level …

Hexonet starts offering Donuts and Rightside backorders for dropping domain names on May 1, 2016. The backorder service will be catching about 400 New gTLDs in total. HEXONET will continue to add backordering for even …

Please beware of domain “broker” Andy Kelly, CEO of UpMarketDNs.com. He presents himself as a broker of several domain names that he has no authority to do so. He contacted me about a 1-word .com …

Flippa has added several options in its domain name search tool including an option to search for letter/number patterns in domains more easily. Flippa has added the following options to utilize when searching and browsing …