Domaining News

ICM Registry, the .xxx registry, has modified the Membership Process for owning and making an .xxx domain name active. Membership Portal has been shut down. So if you need your .XXX Member Token, you simply …

A couple of weeks back I wrote about the Premium domains that are offered by Donuts with renewals that range from $1,000 up to $1,600 depending on the registrar and how these are only suitable …

CentralNic Group, the internet platform business which earns revenues from the registration and renewal of domain names, has issued an update on generic top-level domains (gTLDs).CentralNic says that .ink gTLD will be available for trademark …

I got an email from Rick Schwartz informing me that the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference current offer including 2 nights at the Bellagio for $1495 ends this week on April 4th. Here is the email I received …

.CLUB Domains, LLC announced that the .CLUB* Land Rush period starts tomorrow, April 1, 2014.  Its Land Rush signals the 30-day priority period and the company has posted more than 12,000 suggested names at www.landrush.club. Early sales …

In the past week (Mar 17 to Mar 23), 692 (691 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 million ($1.5m last week). Only 227 (252 last week) domains from …

This is a post were anyone can post the best New gTLD domain name that they have bought so far. Their subjective favorite purchase. It has been about 2 months since the first New gTLD …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-17-14 to 3-23-14 were $1.904.435. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked …

The President and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says the organization’s 49th meeting that just concluded in Singapore marked the beginning of a new era for the organization and …

Most domainers that register, renew, buy or sell domains or doing domaining related business like hosting on the internet use Paypal on a daily basis. There are some registrars that use the Paypal “Preapproved Payments” …

According to ntldstats.com there are now 391,420 New gTLD domain names in 49 New gTLD strings. These numbers only include domain names that are in the zone files. i.e. they have nameservers. I estimate that …

This is a question that a website/domain owner sent to Google Webmasters: “Is there any way Google identifies “sister” websites? For example, relationships between ebay.co.uk and ebay.com? Does linking from one to the other is …

UK registry Nominet is now offering registrars the option of locking high-value .uk domains at the registry level, adding an additional level of security against Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. The Domain Lock tool inserts …

Go Daddy is running a BuyDomains domain name auction that features 150 premium domains with low reserves. The auction started yesterday March 26 2014.The list features domain names such as Deductibles.com, Galas.com, USSales.com and OnlineEvents.com. …