Domaining News

This is where your domain money is going. ICANN spent 2 million USD in the fiscal year 2014 on expense reimbursement and other payments to ICANN Directors plus 1.3 million of payments to the ICANN …

In the past week 554 (484 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.4m last week). Only 174 (150 last week) domains from the 454 were reported by Sedo. …

I discovered that one of my one-word .com domains went from 10 uniques per month to 300 uniques per month in just a few months. It is probably because of an app using a .mobi …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Drones.net that was sold for $17,500. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 5 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

I am really angry because I post all these sales everyday and once in a while something like this happens and I don’t know what the f*ck is going on. I know that a lot …

The winning bidder of the iWire.com domain name is trying to sell the domain name before paying for it. The “buyer” won the domain in a Snapnames auction on the 19th of October for $7,777. …

I came across this article called “How to Dodge Domain Squatters”. It is written by someone that doesn’t really know a lot about domain names. Here is a peak at what I do month after …

I came across this article called “How to Dodge Domain Squatters”. It is written by someone that doesn’t really know a lot about domain names. Lisa should refrain from writing about technical stuff as I …

CentralNic plc announced its joint venture with domain name consultancy RightOfTheDot, LLC, to create specialist new retail websites for the sale of “city domains”. These new city-specific domains include: London.domains for domain names

ICANN granted data retention waivers to 4 European registrars: GANDI SAS (France) IP Twins SAS (France) CPS-Datensysteme GmbH (Germany) Hostserver GmbH(Germany) The 4 registrars submitted to ICANN a Registrar Data Retention Waiver Request

Nominet, the .uk registry, named its new Chief Executive Officer that is Russell Haworth. Russell will join Nominet in January 2015. Nominet said in the announcement that “Russell will lead the organisation as it develops …

Here is a peak at what I do month after month: September: My 639 Domain Name Renewals And 118 Drops (15.6%) .OOO registry has lost it. I am sorry but they will fail. Ashton Kutcher …

Like every month I go through my domains to see what to renew and what not to. In September I renewed 639 domains and dropped 118 of them. So I dropped about 15.6% of the …

The .OOO registry is talking nonsense once again on an interview with the IndiaTimes.com. “Infibeam’s chief executive Vishal Mehta told ET that the company, being the sole owner of the global top level domain (gTLD), …