Domaining News

Starting Dot announced the premium domain name auction results from the first quarter of 2016. The announcement included domains sold at NamesCon as well as 2-letter domains sold at a .SKI Sedo auction. January saw …

Rightside announced today a pricing promotion on most of its premium domain names. The domains will be sold at premium prices but will carry a $10 renewal rate. The reduced renewal and transfer costs will …

The domain name 1.xyz sold for a record breaking price: $182,971. Several other domain names like hk.xyz, vip.xyz and 66.xyz sold for $30k or more. According to Sold.Domains, a website documenting all New gTLD domain …

On March 26th 2016, an aftermarket auction was held, on which 1049 .top domains were bid and bought, mostly in bulk. The domains were sold for a total of $179,076. There were 4 5-figure sales …

.Club has sold 346 domains for a total of $1,477,084. According to Sold.Domains .club is the New gTLD extension with the most domain name sales. Many domains have not been reported from the .club registry …

Newgle just launched and is touted as “The non-COM search engine.”. Newgle allows you to search the web with only the New gTLDs in the results. The creators claim they built Newgle to show how …

Sahar Sarid announced on his Facebook account that his new #‎DomainingAMA project is dead before it even started. #‎DomainingAMA‬ is dead, I’m calling it off. Bullies win, the industry loses. Life goes on. He also …

The domain name Travel.Agency was sold for $9,999 in an auction at Flippa. There were 91 bids in the auction. Unlike some other auctions, in this one the seller clearly stated the premium renewal price …

Godaddy had a google hangout today to explain the features and functionality of their new Domain Investor App. The app was first launched during NamesCon 2016 in Las Vegas. This is a companion app for …

Google announced today that they are dropping the .com from their registrar’s url Google Domains. The domain name registration service that used domains.google.com changed its url today to domains.google. Now domains.google.com redirects to domains.google. The …

Accent Media, the London-based .tickets registry, is making around 30,000 previously reserved premium names available. The registry announced that as of today, anyone seeking to build or grow a business around domains such as ‘cheap.tickets’, …

Rightside made an important comment regarding some questions there have been lately regarding the renewal pricing of New gTLDs. There have been some accusations that some New gTLD registries are making domain name renewal rate …

DomainAgents, the domain name negotiation platform, released a fully redesigned website and marketplace and created new domain name landers. The new DomainAgents website was developed to be a flexible platform that is intended to grow …

At SXSW 2016, Sedo built a Domain Village connecting domain names with their real life counterparts: With free tattoos (getyourfree.tattoo), free ice cream, free slushies, free coffee (coffee.club), free German Beer (sedobeer.bar) and great live …