Domaining News

Radix, a new gTLD registry from Asia, announced the launch timeline for .host, starting with the opening of their Pioneer Program which starts today. The Sunrise phase will start June 24 and last for 60 days. …

I have had my fair share of Go Daddy “Domain Buy Service” offers that cost $69.99 per domain, plus commission. And I also had a few Certified Offers through Network Solutions that cost $19 per …

Within 24 hours of opening for registration, new, short .uk web domains topped the sales charts. More than 50,000 domains were registered, making this one of the fastest selling new domain releases on record, and …

Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines, continues his series of in-depth talks with leading figures from the domain name industry with this video interview of Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos, filmed recently at …

Moniker’s migration to a new system has caused a lot of problems to all it’s users. Today Moniker’s CEO Bonnie Wittenburg sent a message but I don’t see how this is any help. It has …

I got a cryptic support response from Go Daddy today. The subject was “Premium GLTD auction – Correction”. I didn’t create the support ticket so I am not sure what this means: You may have …

Feedly, an RSS news aggregator, has been down for several hours today following a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). It appears that criminals are attacking feedly trying to extort money to make it stop. …

From yesterday, new, short .uk web domains are available alongside .co.uk for the first time ever, with British icon and tech enthusiast Stephen Fry the first person to make the switch. As one of the …

On Friday, Rick Schwartz featured an Interview with Daniel Negari that was supposed to address the free .xyz registrations that Network Solutions has been giving to some .com owners since the .xyz General Availability without …

It appears that the official .CO Blog that is located at http://www.go.co/blog/ has been hacked. I visited the blog today only to find about 40 articles that have nonsense subjects such as “soeda96571” and the stories …

Famous Four Media launched their first 3 New gTLDs yesterday: .BID, .TRADE, and .WEBCAM. Despite making an announcement of a $175,000 sale for 15 .webcam domain names before launch, the results from the first day …

From 10 June 2014, shorter, simpler .uk domain names will be available for the first time. There’s no need to worry though, all existing domains including .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk will continue to run as …

Go Daddy starts an auction featuring 25 premium .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol New gTLD domain names today, 9th of June. The domains are being sold by their registry which is Rightside. The auction includes domains …

Go Daddy announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its Class A common …