Domaining News

Constantine Roussos, founder of DotMusic Limited that is one of eight .music applicants, send out a letter to ICANN and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The letter intents to support the .music community application-based application …

This year NamesCon is opening its doors to volunteers for the very first time. “We think this is a great opportunity for newcomers to the domain name industry to get their feet wet, meet the …

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

Quora asked a question targeting current and former Google employees. What do Google employees think of the creation of Alphabet Inc? So far there have been 14 responses. Here are a few of the most …

A new website for the Uniregistry registry was launched today at uniregistry.link. Frank Schilling announced the launch on Twitter. He said that the new website has the “same heart, passion and ambition”. He added: “We …

RetailMeNot, a US coupon company, paid $4.3 million to buy New gTLD domain names from a new domain name registry, according to a SEC filling. (Thanks to George Kirikos of Leap.com for the tip.) The …

Day 5 of EAP started yesterday for .Online and in the first 45 minutes there were 532 domain name registrations. Registrants pay about $150 more on EAP day 5 on top of the registration price. …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain names HTML5.com that sold for $50,209. The marketplace posted over $170,000 in transactions over the past couple of weeks. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for …

Colin CampbelI, founder of .CLUB, has officially challenged Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ, to a debate at THE Domain Conference that takes place this September in Florida. Colin is debating that free or nearly free …

Domain Holdings published its Q2 2015 report that shows that 2015 continues to be a strong year. In addition to the sales success in Q2, Domain Holdings was acquired by Flippa. Combined, Flippa and Domain …

NamesCon issued a warning regarding the upcoming show at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Attendants booking for the Jan 10 – Jan 13, 2016 show should be careful booking their hotel room. I was …

ConnectingNYC.org wrote an article about who should operate the Search.nyc domain name. At the time the domain name Search.nyc is reserved by the registry but it is not registered and not resolving. It should at …

Dot London published an article about local branding. The article written by Alexandra Gavril and called “The importance of your domain in local branding” does not only apply to .London but to other regions and …

The .Club registry announced that its day 1 renewal rate was 74.98%. .Club launched on May 7th, 2014. There were 26K .club domain names sold on the first day and a total of  32K in …