Domaining News

Donuts, a New gTLD registry with more than 50 New gTLDs already released, is performing scheduled maintenance today. The time frame for the maintenance is as follows: August 25, 2014, 21 :00 – 22:30 GMT …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 7 New gTLDs enter a landrush phase. .HIV also enters general availability on the 26th of …

In the past week (August 11 to August 17), 502 (527 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 million ($1.6m last week). Only 149 (158 last week) domains from …

The first World Domain Day conference starts this Sunday the 24th August at the Avasa Hotel, High Tech City, Hyderbad, India. WDD (World Domain Day) is an international event for the promotion of domain names …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name FileBackup.com that sold for $11,300 after 3700 views and 79 bids. It was the buyer’s second attempt to sell the domain at Flippa and it …

ICANN has opened a comment period to obtain community input on the proposed amendments to the Registry Agreements of several registry operators: .SOHU, .IMMO, .SAARLAND, .CLUB. The proposals requess the release of all two-character ASCII …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On Monday the 18th of August .Career entered General Availability and got 2,838 domain name registrations in the zone files after …

From 15 September, Nominet will begin emailing registrants with rights to a short .uk domain under the .uk 5-year reservation mechanism.  This step is part of a wider programme of communication and outreach committed to as …

Some of the early adopters of the .Vegas domain are beginning to come online now that .Vegas is out of the sunrise trademark phase of the roll out. One of the newest sites to launch …

I couple of days ago I got an email from Namejet that I won a domain with the tile “NameJet Order Confirmation” and I immediately knew there was something wrong as I had not backordered …

The South Florida Business Journal posted an article yesterday with the title “Fort Lauderdale-based domain .club is one of top-selling web newcomers”. The Fort Lauderdale-based domain .club is leading a pack of newly established alternatives …

Michael Gilmour, owner of ParkLogic, send out an invitation and encourages everyone to attend his upcoming webinar today the 21st of August discussing a Domain Industry Association. Michael has made 5 blog posts lately about …

ICANN has announced that 24 more New gTLDs have been delegated for a total of 370 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the latest 24 new gTLDs: .diet, .hosting, .property, …

The National Association of Realtors announced that the new .REALTOR top-level domain will be available October 23, 2014 to members of NAR and the Canadian Real Estate Association. The top-level domain will be made available …