Domaining News

Founded in October 2011 in Paris, Starting Dot is a new registry business developing a portfolio of 4 new Top Level Domain names (TLDs) dedicated to major sectors: .SKI, .IMMO (in contention), .ARCHI and .BIO. …

Here is a new Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions Infographic. This new Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) guide explains how these core functions allow you and everyone around the globe to utilize …

The .club registry has partnered with Sedo to offer their reserved premium .club domain names. Sedo is currently offering 6654 .club domains. I visited a few of the description pages at Sedo and all description …

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for .BID, .TRADE, .WEBCAM and some 54 other Top Level Domains, has signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Registrars are the only way through which end-users of domain names …

There is a .CO.UK auction at Sedo starting today. The auction features 116 .co.uk domains such as it.co.uk, queen.co.uk, prince.co.uk, paint.co.uk and url.co.uk. All domain names have reserves that are up to the 50,000 – 99,999 GBP …

“What Box Holdings“, “Plan Bee LLC” and “Thomas A. Brackey II” have been using fake trademarks to buy New gTLD domain names in sunrise. I was wondering why Donuts was not doing anything to fight …

Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced the start of the first “sunrise” phase of the roll-out of the .nyc web address, beginning a five-month countdown towards the full-scale public launch in October 2014. The new …

In the past week (Apr 21 to Apr 27), 444 (513 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,1 million ($1m last week). Only 195 (153 last week) domains from …

.CO did an article on the Huffington Post called “How to Choose the Perfect Domain Name For Your Business”. The article says that “Having the right domain name helps you establish your credibility, makes it …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-21-14 to 4-27-14 were $1.778.547. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

Dynadot, one of my favorite registrars, published an article about Domain Registration Do’s and Don’ts. “Finding the perfect domain name for your company website is just as important as determining its business name. Whether you’re …

This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .agency, .bargains, .boutique, .cheap and .zone. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $35,000 …

Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX), that owns Archeo Domains, announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. Marchex sold $1.9 million worth of domains through Archeo. “As the first quarter demonstrates, advertisers are increasingly …

Dot London, the new domain for London, launched marking the first time that businesses, organisations and individuals can apply for a web address ending in .london as an alternative to .com or .co.uk. There is …