Domaining News

I got email from Pool.com today stating that Pool has started offering pre-orders for New gTLD domain names that enter the general availability phase: By popular request, Pool.com is now using its domain acquisition engine …

The Sedo .CO.UK domain name auction ended yesterday and it was not pretty. Only 7 domain names were sold for a total of 5982 GBP + $109 (a total of about $10,174). The domains in …

ICANN has formally signed a contract giving domain addresses ending in .cymru and .wales the go-ahead. The agreement means that businesses and consumers can acquire a .cymru or .wales domain name allowing them to demonstrate …

Google’s Matt Cutts was asked a question at Google Webmasters about the importance of backlinks in Google ranking: Question:Google changed the search engine market in the ’90s by evaluating a website’s backlinks instead of just …

Rolex bought 27 domain names on the 4th day of the Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) for the New gTLD .watch last week. Of course .watch would be top priority for a watch company such …

What is new at Flippa in 2014? Here is an update from Flippa’s general manager Nick Kenn: The first quarter of 2014 is already behind us, so here’s a wrap up of what we’ve been doing …

An ICANN Independent Review Panel has issued a decision [PDF, 7.80 MB] that ICANN should hold off from further processing of ZA Central Registry’s (ZACR) application for the .AFRICA top-level domain (TLD) for the time …

Here is the email I got from Rick Schwartz today: Morning Folks!! I will keep it brief. Early Bird deeply discounted tickets for the Miami Beach show are now on sale! Early Bird tickets are …

Namejet released it’s April 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 84 (74 last month) domains for $463,758 ($404,498 last month) in April 2014. The report includes a domain name I bought: dnshost.com for $2,598. …

While domain name auctions seem to be working fine for many years now with various auction houses auctioning daily expired and dropped domains, I think there is a problem with premium domain name auctions such …

CentralNic Group PLC said Monday that it had launched a new website, DOMAIN.LUXURY, for the sale of new domain names ending in .luxury through its subsidiary TLD Registrar Solutions. CentralNic chief executive Ben Crawford said: …

Sedo just announced the sale of the domain name intensity.com for $57,000 USD. The domain name was sold by the company WEBVENTURER LLP from London, UK. The domain is now registered with Go Daddy and …

In the past week (Apr 28 to May 4), 466 (444 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,2 million ($1,1m last week). Only 189 (195 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-28-14 to 5-04-14 were $1.878.819. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …