Domaining News

Go Daddy says that the Super Bowl commercials were an unprecedented business success. That is not bad considering that “YourBigIdea.CO” is a copy of Verisign’s “What’s your .net idea?” campaign. GoDaddy.com’s two 30-second ads drove tremendous …

Protrada is offering a free Domain Trading eCourse to all it’s members. Protrada has developed a Domain Trading eCourse (valued at $49) that claims to be able to help you learn everything you need to …

I have tried renewing the same .org domain name at Moniker.com 3 times today within a 6 hour period and all three attempts have failed. You will not get any indication about the failed order …

ICM Registry, the .xxx registry, sent a $75 Search.xxx ad credit for each .xxx domain registered. Back in November ICM Registry announced that it was going to offer a $75 per-domain credit to existing owners …

In Go Daddy’s 2013 Super Bowl commercial at yourbigidea.co, Go Daddy urges everybody to seize their big idea and register a .co domain name. Go Daddy’s tagline is “What’s your big idea?“ But this commercial …

Karim Jiwani left RegistryPro to pursue new industry opportunities. Today, Afilias Limited announced the resignation of Karim Jiwani, who formerly ran RegistryPro, the .PRO registry and Afilias subsidiary. Under his tenure, the .PRO business doubled, …

On November Snapnames started making charges for “catching” unregistered domains for a $69 fee. The result was that a lot of Snapnames customers were charged for forgotten domains in their accounts with one user being …

Yesterday Go Daddy’s 2nd 2013 Super Bowl commercial came out featuring auto racing driver Danica Patrick introducing model Bar Refaeli and a geek named Walter played by Jesse Heiman. The commercial is named “Perfect Match” …

Go Daddy sold 35,156 domains in January. That is almost a 5% increase from December’s 33,446 domains. 52% (55% in December) of the sales were from auctions, 46% (43% in December) of the sales were from Buy …

ICANN accredited registrar HEXONET released the latest news about it’s New gTLDs pre registrations. Some gTLD applicants are already accepting pre-registrations and HEXONET is using an “Expression of Interest”(EOI) service, to allow users to preregister …

Yesterday I wrote about how Google won a UDRP Complaint at the National Arbitration Forum for the domain name GlassGoogle.com. Google had an easy UDRP win as the Respondent failed to submit a Response in …

Complainant McLaren Health Care Corporation got a trademark registration for the mark “mclaren” on October 16, 2012 so they thought it would be a good idea to file UDRP complaints for every domain name incorporating …

Craig Schwartz that is the Director of fTLD Registry Services, LLC sent a letter to Ms. Christine Willett, General Manager of the New gTLD Program at ICANN asking for an extension to the objection filing …

Domain Tools starts offering a Domain Report in PDF format for an introductory price of $49. Domain Report is simple to use: enter a domain name and Domain Tools will gather nearly everything they know about …