Domaining News

Earlier today I posted an article about the new ICANN.org website. ICANN just posted a video demonstration of the new website made by the Neo software development company that designed the site. Take a look: …

Belgian registrar NAMEWEB BVBA made a data retention waiver request to ICANN. The waiver request comes after the first waiver granted by ICANN to OVH SAS on the basis of French law. ICANN has made …

The new ICANN.org website is ready and it’s official launch will be next month. You can already see it live at new.icann.org. ICANN is due to migrate to the new site in April – but …

ICANN introduced the new Global Domains Division (GDD) portal. ICANN’s Global Domains Division (GDD) oversees generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and Web services, with the goal of having all of these pieces coming …

The domain name KIK.DE sold at Sedo for 178,500 EUR or about $246,000 this Friday. The domain was bought by a German clothing company name KiK Textilien & Non-Food GmbH. The domain KIK.DE already redirects …

The Domainers Choice Awards 2014 nominees were announced today and one major domainer name is missing from the nominees: Rick Schwartz. I voted for him as a nominee for the Domain Ambassador award. I know …

CentralNic Group, the internet platform business which earns revenues from the worldwide subscription sales of domain names, has added four valuable domain names to its existing portfolio of 25 “uncontested” domain names that are ready …

ICANN 49 meeting in Singapore is underway (March 23 – 27) and these are 3 of the subjects in this meeting that I am interested in: Internet Governance – IANA transition This will be the …

In the past week (Mar 10 to Mar 16), 691 (677 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5 million ($1.3m last week). Only 252 (218 last week) domains from …

Google’s Webmaster Academy is now available with new and targeted content! Two years ago, Webmaster Academy launched to teach new and beginner webmasters how to make great websites. In addition to adding new content, Google …

In the past week (Mar 3 to Mar 9), 677 (582 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 million ($1.3m last week). Only 218 (192 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-10-14 to 3-16-14 were $2.112.576. This report includes some nice New gTLD auction sales such as swimsuit.photos for $3,550 …

#McConnelling is the latest trend to hit Twitter and YouTube thanks to Jon Stewart and Mitch McConnell, a United States Republican Party Senator from Kentucky. The trend started when Jon Stewart made fun of Mitch …

Is .Uno The First Cybersquatting Registry or are they just running a cheap PR trick to draw attention to their New gTLD? I noticed that Dot Latin LLC, the .uno registry, used the 1API registrar …