Domaining News

I bet you all have heard of the massive hacking attack on Moniker. It was successful and many domains have been reported as stolen including domains such as bit.com. This is “How To Check If …

INOC today announced its sponsorship of ICANN 51, taking place October 12-16, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA. INOC is the proud sponsor and host of a happy hour at X bar located inside the Hyatt …

The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) send a letter to ICANN on the 10th of September about the release of 2 character domain names in New gTLDs that a lot of registries are now requesting. It …

Yesterday Moniker send emails to all its users with new passwords and asked them to change the passwords immediately. It was later reported that this was done after a massive hacking that resulted in many …

The National Association of Realtors® has won the rights to the new .realestate top-level domain. NAR intends to use the .realestate domain along with the recently acquired .REALTOR domain to create order for real estate …

Eurid, the .eu registry, announced the 15 website finalists for the .eu Web Awards. The .eu Web Awards is an online competition launched with the objective to distinguish and award .eu websites that are leaders in …

Enough with the spam. I have had over 1000 spam comments in a day. I am sorry if one of your comments ended up in spam. I will probably never find it in this flood …

I wrote this and then totally forget to post it. Here are the domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: .BAYERN launched on the 30th of September and got 19,170 domains …

This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and no strings enter the landrush phase. This is the slowest week in New gTLDs since February when it …

The Long Island Business News did a piece written by Steve Baldwin that is the editor of digital content at Didit, a full-service digital and traditional marketing firm in Mineola. He argued that social media …

The .eu top-level domain finished Q2 with a growth rate of 4.2% year over year, according to the latest quarterly report released by the .eu registry EURid. During Q2 2014, the number of .eu registrations …

As of November 3, it will be possible to register two-character domains at .pt. Terms & Conditions are already available for consultation at dns.pt. .PT is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Portugal. Sedo …

.NYC launched and got pretty good results. More domains are added to the landrush/priority domains daily so I still don’t know what the final number is. I am bit surprised from the crap that people …

In the past week 571 (591 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1m last week). Only 183 (201 last week) domains from the 571 were reported by Sedo. The …