Domaining News

Last month I wrote how a brand strategy company named LOGOS Identity Branding (LOGOS comes from the Greek word λόγος that means speech) bought the New gTLD domain name Christian.Education for about $2,000. The domain …

Yesterday I discussed how Future Media Architects (FMA) dropped 4,726 3-letter .biz domains. Most of these domains are now available to register. I don’t say you should go crazy buying these as most domains contain …

In a private deal, Famous Four Media has sold a package of 15 domain names to a single buyer. The deal, worth $175,000, was for adult oriented terms in the .WEBCAM registry. “We are delighted …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 5-26-14 to 6-1-14 were $2.109.201 (last week $1.618.097). A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller …

In the past week (May 26 to June 1), 482 (591 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,1 million ($1,1m last week). Only 112 (189 last week) domains from …

Starting Dot announced that the .BIO New gTLD was delegated on June 2, 2014 and the proposed Sunrise date to ICANN is as early as June 11, 2014, at 10:00 UTC. Here is the announcement:

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners, one of the largest portfolio applicants for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), is pleased to announce Domain Venture Partners’ acquisition of the .RACING and …

Last month I wrote how a domaining company Future Media Architects (FMA) dropped 2,737 3-letter .info domain names. I now checked the 17,576 three letter .biz combinations and found that FMA has dropped almost all …

GoDaddy Auctions published it’s domain market report. Go Daddy Auctions sold 45,852 domains in May. It sold 42,480 domains in April. The most expensive domains sold were steamengine.com for $38,000 and filmesonline.com for $28,000. Here are …

On 4 June 2014 ICANN through its authorized auction services provider, Power Auctions LLC, completed the first auction to resolve a contention set for a new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) string. Contention sets are groups …

Daniel Negari has tried to lie and deceive everybody and climb his way up to the top spot of New gTLDs. Well guess what Daniel? You failed. .XYZ is down at the 34th place of …

Moniker is back up after being down for maintenance. I just logged into my account only to find more domains that what I had before. I have now 30 more domains since yesterday and that …

I visited Moniker looking for one of my domains that is missing only to find this message below. Moniker is closed for maintenance until 9:00 am (EDT). I have made 2 post so far with …

.XYZ entered general availability yesterday and after the first few hours it had reached 14,924 registrations. It now ranks 15th among New gTLDs, just below .directory. That is hardly the performance expected from the NEXT …