Domaining News

I haven’t made a post with New gTLD launches in the past couple of months because I thought that most people knew about them but a few of my readers complained so this weekly post …

A regular meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors was held in London, England on 21 June 2014. The Committee engaged in a discussion concerning applications for several adult-oriented …

A new lawsuit has been filed against Lil Wayne and his Young Money label over the domain name YoungMoney.com bought for $600,000 in 2011. Lil Wayne and his Young Money label may have to find …

Following the recent launch of the new internet top-level domain .London and of the buydomains.london website for SMEs to obtain their .london domain names, Ben Crawford, CEO of buydomains.london parent company CentralNic has launched a …

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) prepares to launch “.Gongsi” (“.COM” in Chinese) and “.Wangluo” (“.NET” in Chinese), new Chinese-language top-level domains with IP Mirror. “Gongsi” and “Wangluo” are Chinese phonetic spellings to mean “Company” …

In the past week (June 23 to June 29), 614 (476 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.3 million ($0.9m last week). Only 162 (145 last week) domains from …

June was a record month for OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors. Also, about 850 comments were made by readers. The most popular subject by far was .xyz with 5 related posts in the …

Movie.info sold for $24,626 in a Flippa auction. The auction had 171 bids and the winning bidder seems to be real and legit as it has 100% reputation and $36.7K of transactions at Flippa. Congratulations …

I am writing this post because I want to thank all my sponsors, old and new, for supporting my blog. They help me keep focus on what I love writing about: domain names. I want …

DomainHoldings.com announced the highest New gTLD sale to date. They sold, on behalf of the owner, the domain name Luxury.Estate For $50,000. The seller bought the domain name on the 5th day of EAP with …

.UK domains were launched by Nominet on the 10th of June. Today Nominet announced that these new, short .uk domains have passed the 100,000 registrations milestone, contributing to the biggest-selling month Nominet – the internet …

GoDaddy announced today that it has hired Barton F. Graf 9000 as its U.S. advertising agency-of-record. A new campaign featuring television and online ads is set to debut in September. Creative details are not being …

Namejet had a .Menu auction that featured 32 .menu domain names but none of them sold. 6 of the domains got at least the opening $69 bid but none of them reached the reserve. Proteindiet.menu …

DomainTools announced a partnership with Malformity Labs that already incorporates DomainTools’ extensive database into the Maltego transform server and can immediately accelerate your investigations. The availability of a Maltego transform server makes it incredibly easy to …