Domaining News

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 …

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 …