Domaining News

Donuts published a blog post titled “The Proof is in the Data – Not-Coms Are Superior To Legacy Domains“. During the first two months of 2016, not-coms made their Super Bowl debut and the highly-anticipated …

.Club had 79 of the official submissions using a .CLUB domain name and over 100 total .CLUB projects at the 2016 Launch Hackathon. Last year at Launch .Club had 53 teams using a .CLUB domain for …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of February 2016 were published by Verisign. “Trump” is the only common keyword in the 2 lists. I am not so sure …

.NYC Domain Meetup has a big event planned for this Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 6:00 PM. The event is titled “Changing Digital Landscape of 2016 NYC” and features speakers from Link.nyc and the mayor’s …

Heritage Auctions (HA.com) announced today the domain list for the 2016 April 19 Domain Names Signature Auction in San Francisco. It will run until April 18th and then the live auction will happen on the …

12,000 .IN domain names were registered during the weekend. Chinese Premium equivalents of .IN domains are being hand registered in mass quantities. .IN is the ccTLD of India. On Friday, there were about 35,000 domain …

Watch My Domains has created a table of almost all TLDs along with whois server and other information. The table has all current TLDs, ccTLDs and IDNs (sourced from IANA). Watch My Domains offers a wide …

There was a report 2 weeks ago that the domain name 2.tv was sold for about $100,000 USD. Raymond Hackney wrote that the domain was owned by Michael Berkens before he sold his portfolio to …

Namejet released it’s February 2016 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 287 (301 domains in January) domains for $2,787,626 ($2,459,845 in January). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, is releasing the seventh installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. TLD Registry presented the world’s first, and still currently the world’s …

8.club, along with 24 other two-number domain names, including 11.club., 44.club, 55.club, 99.club and more, are set to go to auction on 4.CN, China’s leading domain auction platform and the largest domain marketplace in the …

I have been debating for 4 days if I like Braden Pollock’s post “Why I Invested Six Figures in .WS Domain Names” or not. I read the post and all the comments, including the crazy …

Domain Holdings had a strong Q4 2015. Q4 Highlights and Sales Summary Include: Total Sales: $6,358,902 Average Weekly Sales: $489,146 Average Sales Price (ASP): $105,982 Sales Summary Q3 vs Q4: Domain Holdings experienced growth across …

I run a test counting all domain name inquiries in a month to see what TLDs are getting the most inquiries compared to the percentage that each TLD represents in my domain portfolio. I only …