Domaining News

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 9 New gTLD launches: On the 22nd of July .Moe entered general availability and it had 1,068 domains after it’s first day. Today it has …

Heritage Auctions (HA), one of the world’s largest collectibles auctioneer, is having it’s third domain name auction today. Internet bidding that ran for the past 14 days is closed with 7 domains hitting the reserve. …

Heart Internet, one of UK’s largest reseller hosting companies, has become one of the first major businesses in the United Kingdom to switch to the recently launched .uk domain name. Heart internet switched from a …

Dot Vegas Inc. Founder, President and CEO Jim Trevino recently had the chance to talk about the .Vegas New gTLD at a Technology Business Alliance of Nevada luncheon. Check out a few highlights from his …

Flippa announced that it is introducing a new auction webpage this week. This is what Flippa says about the new auction page: “It’s the result of months of researching and testing with users, with a …

Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the accreditation of Nigeria’s registrar, Upperlink, which makes the company the first Nigerian and the eighth accredited registrar in Africa. I am not so sure this …

I got a spam email from SwitchAds.com yesterday for the 20th time so I decided to reply and ask them to unsubscribe me as they seemed like a real United Kingdom company. And they actually …

The .London registry released a new TV ad for the new top level domain name. Until 31st July 2014, Londoners get priority for Dot London domain names. This means that if you are a London-based …

Yesterday 22th of July the .Tokyo new domain name extension entered general availability. Tokyo has a metropolitan population of over 35 million people. This was one of the big geo New gTLDs but it didn’t …

NameJet announced the release of it’s new iOS app. NameJet’s new App for iOS gives you more control when bidding in domain name auctions while on the go. This is how Namejet describes the iOS app: …

A Go Daddy customer is complaining that he registered 2 .xyz domains in June and Go Daddy removed the 2 domains from his account in July and registered the domains under some other name. I …

GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry announced that .tokyo (http://hello.tokyo/en), the top level domain representing Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, opened for worldwide general registration on July 22, 2014, at 03:00 UTC. Following the …

The .nz registry is following the footsteps of Nominet, the .uk registry, offering shorter .nz (New Zealand) ccTLD domain names. From 1pm, 30 September 2014, ‘second level’ domains like the .co in ‘.co.nz’ and the …

This is time for another Moniker update. The past 2 months have been crazy. I have made 8 posts, including this one, describing what have been a Moniker system disaster. Before a couple of days …