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Archeo Launches New Domain Name Blog

Archeo, Inc., a division of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced the launch of its blog, which is aimed at helping new businesses navigate how to build their brands online. “Acquiring the right domain is …

Tucows Reports Strong Results From Wireless Services And Drops Domains From 2006

Tucows Inc. today reported strong financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Elliot Noss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tucows Inc. said that “We continue to see steady performance from our Domains …

Donuts: “.COM has become diluted and meaningless. It adds nothing to an identity.”

Donuts, a New gTLD registry with more than 200 strings already released or coming soon, posted an article on it’s official blog with the title “The Importance of Semantics and Affinity, and the Meaninglessness of …

Updated New gTLD Auction Schedule From ICANN

The New gTLD Auction Schedule is updated as of 11 August 2014. This version is updated to reflect the 2015 Auction Dates for January, February, and March. Also reflected is the finalization of the Name …

New ICANN Infographic: The IANA Functions

ICANN released a new IANA Functions Infographic which explains how the core IANA functions allow users like you to access the Internet. The revised infographic incorporates feedback from the community.

5 Million Domain Names Added To The Internet In The 1st Quarter Of 2014 For a Total Of 276 Million

VeriSign, Inc. today announced five million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 276 million worldwide across all top-level domains …

Minds + Machines Registrar Security Breach

I was informed by a reader that there was a security breach today at the Minds + Machines registrar. An email was sent at approximately 12:00 UTC on August 11, 2014 from one of the …

New gTLD Weekly Review: .Vegas, .Tax, .Cash, .Fund, .Investments

This week 4 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Donuts enters EAP General Availability for the following 4 New gTLDs on Wednesday, August 13th 2014: .Tax, …

.Organic Launches Exclusively For Certified Organic Goods And Services Providers

Afilias announced that August 6, 2014, is the sunrise start date for its newest generic top-level domain (gTLD): .ORGANIC. The .ORGANIC domain will be exclusively for organic goods and services providers that are certified or …

ICANN Grants Data Retention Waiver To 4 European Registrars

ICANN granted data retention waiver to 4 European registrars: MAILCLUB SAS 1API GmbH ingenit GmbH & Co. KG Registry Gate GmbH The 4 registrars submitted to ICANN a Registrar Data Retention Waiver Request pursuant to …

Sedo sells 632 domains for $1.7 million: jtf.com $25k, 13.de 15k Euro, Gym.biz $1,900

In the past week (July 28 to August 3), 632 (569 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 million ($1.9m last week). Only 158 (179 last week) domains from …

Namejet Sells 82 Domains For $510k: BigDeals.com $36k, Gains.com $25,500, PNN.com $23k

Namejet released it’s July 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 82 (69 last month) domains for $509,926 ($368,421 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

Latest Flippa Sales: RHK.com $9,975, Bidable.com $3,555

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name RHK.com that sold for $9,975. This week’s top Flippa sales includes 3 domain name portfolios of .info, .xyz and .co domains. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method …