Domaining News

CIIDRC announced that Zak Muscovitch has joined CIIDRC’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panel. CIIDRC is the Canadian International Internet Dispute Resolution Centre. CIIDRC is one of the 6 approved Dispute Resolution Service Providers for complaints …

A new selling option (Price Request) will be coming in Dan.com’s domain name seller accounts this week. Here’s a preview of what is coming up soon:

Dynadot published its aftermarket domain name sales report. The report includes domain name sales from Expired Auctions, Backorder Auctions, User Auctions, Last Chance Auctions, and Marketplace listings. See the top 10 Aftermarket sales from November …

Mike Mann reported 2 of his domain name sales in November 2021 for a total of $54,888. Reported prices started at $15,000 and went up to $39,888. Mike sold 2 .com domains. The average reported …

The Government of Tuvalu selected GoDaddy Registry as the new registry service provider for the .TV country code Top-Level domain replacing Verisign. The announcement follows a competitive render process conducted by the ministry of Finance …

The domain name Batteries.com will be sold through a private auction. Auction details can be found at WelcomeToBatteries.com. Official Escrow service providers for the auction process include San Francisco-based Escrow.com. The winner of the highest …

All Brexit-related domain names, which were moved to the “WITHDRAWN” status on 1 July 2021, will be revoked and released on Monday, 3 January 2022. About 48,000 domain names will become available for general registration …

Tucows (that is includes OpenSRS, Ascio, Enom) issued a statement on what their response was to the newly discovered Log4j vulnerability: “Last Friday, a critical system vulnerability with Log4j was uncovered that has the potential …

Google provided an update on mobile-indexing. Google first started working on mobile-first indexing a number of years ago. Since then, they switched to indexing the majority of web pages with Googlebot-Smartphone. Their existing plan was …

The third quarter of 2021 closed with 364.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, a decrease of 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the second quarter of 2021. Domain name …

Nominet, the .UK registry, has today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to 31 October 2021. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain …

Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced an expansion of its registry portfolio of top-level domains. PIR’s acquired the New gTLD extension .GIVING from Giving Limited. Once the transfer is finalized, PIR will “offer access to …

DAN’s Open Domain Distribution Network has launched. The advanced, easy-to-implement & feature-rich domain distribution network is now out of Beta and available for enterprise-level integrators. With this new network, DAN aims to create a pool …

CentralNic Group plc (AIM: CNIC) announced that it has acquired the domain name and brand protection business trading as NameAction in an asset deal for a consideration of c.$1 million in cash from NameAction Inc. …