Domaining News

The XYZ registry auctioned off 16 .xyz domain names at West.cn. The auction ended today and all 16 .xyz domains were sold for a total of $379,376 USD. The auction included short domains like xx.xyz …

Namejet released it’s November 2015 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 233 (139 domains in October) domains for $1,561,991 ($1,026,208 in October). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am …

DropCatch just enabled .cc and .tv domain extensions. Each backorder costs $59.00 USD and the same rules apply:

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that approximately 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 299 million worldwide across all …

Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB Domains, gave a lecture on Entrepreneurship at Beijing Foreign Student University (BFSU) in Beijing, China. Here is the video:

Last month it was reported that President Brandon Abbey had left the company after 11 years on the job. This past spring Freelancer bought Escrow.com and Matt Barrie is now the new CEO and President of Escrow.com, as well as the CEO …

.Club released more than 13,000 reserved premium domains for sale yesterday. Here are some of the best domain names available and their prices (from 101domain.com):

Highest domain name sale this month at Flippa was NOY.com that sold for $39,000. There were a lot of LLLL.com domain name sales similar to other marketplaces lately. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 7 domains …

Today, December 16th 2015 (8 a.m. EST), .CLUB released an additional 13,293 registry reserved premium names to their tiered premium inventory. These names were priced before the value of .Club domains started increasing with the …

The new .eu whois is light years ahead of any other whois system, that I have seen, with an option to offer a domain name for sale and providing whois and Alexa stats on one …

ThePirateBay.com plus 6 other domain names have been suspended. The Pirate Bay’s original .org domain name ThePirateBay.org has passed the ICANN email verification is working properly after being suspended for a few days pending the …

Donuts has issued an infographic that shows the New gTLD growth rate by month. November featured a surge of domain name registrations. New extension registrations have grown 270% since January 2015. “The “not-com” movement has …

Panelist Christopher S. Gibson that was one of the 3-member panel in the controversial Camilla.com WIPO case was also part of some other questionable decisions in the past. I don’t think that anyone thinks this …

The Pirate Bay’s original .org domain name had stopped working as the domain name had not passed the ICANN email verification while the domain name was registered with EuroDNS. ThePirateBay.org has since been moved to …