Domaining News

During Q3 2013, the number of .eu registrations decreased by 3 051 domain names, a net decrease of -0.1%, to 3.70 million. The total number of .eu domain name registered at the end of Q3 …

In the context of the recent Caribbean ICT Week, Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO, and Ms. Bernadette Lewis, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase cooperation and …

ICANN Ombudsman has received a number of complaints about the results received from the dispute resolution providers in the new gTLD applications. He replied to these complaints and he said that the real problem is …

The Pirate Bay, the popular torrent search engine, just moved again to a new domain name: thepiratebay.pe. It had moved to thepiratebay.ac just 2 days ago after the domain ThePirateBay.sx was seized. The Peruvian domain …

I got an angry comment yesterday in seemingly unrelated post concerning a post made by Owen Frager at his blog. I would have allowed the comment to appear although the commenter used some harsh language …

Sedo just announced the sale of the domain Schedule.me for $24,000 USD. The domain was originally registered in 2008. The domain was bought by an individual living in Charlotte, US and is currently still using the …

The Pirate Bay, the popular torrent search engine, just moved to a new domain name thepiratebay.ac after the domain ThePirateBay.sx was seized. After a long lasting pressure from the entertainment industry the domain registry of …

DomainNameSales is heavily promoting its brokering services. It has gone thus far as changing, temporarily, its logo. Here is the new “promotion” logo with the “Try our brokers” slogan: They have also added a link …

SnapNames announced today that .CO.UK and .CN domain names are now available for drop-catching through its online marketplace. .CO.UK and .CN are the world’s third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions. Here …

I made a post last week detailing my first 2 months syndicating my DomainNameSales domains to Go Daddy. I didn’t have any luck with the syndication and received very few offers and 0 sales. Today …

Sedo just announced the sale of the domain pizza.nl for 75000 Euro or $103,318 USD. The domain was originally registered in 1996. The domain was bought by dutch company Thuisbezorgd.NL and is currently redirecting to …

Minds + Machines is currently running a Facebook ad that says “Dot Com is Dead” and below it says “Long live the new Top Level Domains”. I won’t even comment of this “Dot Com is …

For the next week, you get 50% off the domain listing fee at Flippa. Also starting today, you also get half-price relists.  Flippa has also made it easier for you to browse domains. You can now search …

A recent Government proposal calls that owners of Romanian .ro domain names should pay an annual fee starting next year, to renew ownership of their domain. It is not yet clear what the renewal fee …