Domaining News

Spamhaus: “After many years with no change at the top of the Spamhaus registrar reputation rankings, we finally have some movement!”. Read here Spamhaus Botnet threats: Most abused top-level domains, Q2 2021 NameSilo We saw …

Further to the announcement dated 8 April 2021, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that it has received consent from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) to transfer four top-level domains …

DAN 2.0 went live today with a lot of changes. Frank Koelewijn, Head of Brand & Design, said today: “We started Dan with a mission to empower entrepreneurs and make the domain world a better, …

This quarter, the Spamhaus researchers have observed a 12% reduction in newly observed botnet command and controllers (C&Cs), which is good news. However, it’s not good news for everyone; more than one industry-leading provider is …

This is a great report to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current portfolio. Top 20 …

Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 20th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of the report is to present key …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today announced the launch of List for Sale, a service that “enables anyone to quickly and easily list and sell unused domain names”. The tool is available for free to all …

The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q1/2021 has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market. …

Epik announced that it has acquired the domain name forum DNForum.com. Robert Davis, EVP Communications, made the announcement: “It is with great excitement that Epik also announces its acquisition and planned integration of DNForum. As …

NameSilo Technologies Corp. announced that it has surpassed the milestone of 4 million active domains under management. This comes less than two years after surpassing 3 million active domains in July, 2019. This continued growth …

For several years now, EURid (the .EU registry) has been running two yearly categorisation exercises regarding the use of .eu. Throughout April, they deployed the first exercise of 2021 to understand possible new patterns within …

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) wrote a post explaining the various 60-day domain name transfer locks. “Where locks are imposed as a security mechanism it is important for registrars and registrants alike to be aware …

Dynadot announced that it reached 3 million domains under management: “Despite the rollercoaster journey we’ve all had, the Dynadot team is pleased to announce that we’ve reached 3 MILLION domains under management in a little …

GoDaddy released today its January 2021 domain name sales report. The list is inclusive of all channels (GoDaddy, Afternic, Uniregistry) and the price listed is the final price paid by the buyer. You can see …