Domaining News

The European Parliament, the Council, and the European Commission reached an agreement on 5 December on the new rules guiding the .eu top-level domain (TLD). Negotiators agreed on the reform of the .eu TLD to …

Public Interest Registry (PIR), the nonprofit operator of the .org domain, announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously selected Jonathon Nevett as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 17, 2018. “It is my …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the third quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 342.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of approximately 2.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.8 …

I have now left Uniregistry once and for all. Yes, I am now completely Uniregistry free and it feels great. The company had great potential when it started but it has been going downhill for …

Reportedly, the domain name Bipartisan.com sold for $7,000 last week at Sedo. I say reportedly as I don’t know if the domain has been paid for. Bipartisan.com was on a regular public auction on Sedo …

Monte Cahn confirmed on Twitter that the Namescon 2019 domain name auction will use Namejet for its backend after all. Last week I wrote that the Namescon auction was going to be running on GoDaddy …

Up until now webpages on WordPress.com get a unique *.wordpress.com address. WordPress announced you can now get free .blog subdomains on 28 .blog domain names the company reserved in the .blog New gTLD launch. In …

Namecheap announced the launch its new two-factor authentication TOTP 2FA (Time-based One-Time Password algorithm two-factor authentication). Two-factor authentication is done by verifying your identity through another device, such as a smartphone. Most often, a code …

Karn Saroya, Co-founder & CEO at Cover, explained how his company decided to purchase the domain name cover.com for $825,000. The blog post he made had the title “You should never spend $825K on a …

The NamesCon 2019 domain name auction is switching to GoDaddy as its auction platform. It makes sense that the GoDaddy auction platform is replacing Namejet as GoDaddy is the owner of NamesCon. Auction submissions are …

Mike Mann reported selling 15 domain names in October for a total of $203,104. Prices started at $2,888 and went up to $49,888. Mike Mann sold 14 .com domains and 1 .org. The average reported …

Have you ever thought of trying a service AFTER you heard about an outage it had? Well this is what happened to me after I read a post by Namecheap explaining, in detail, how the …

GGRG Brokerage Consulting and Giuseppe Graziano published the 3rd quarter of 2018 Liquid Domains Market Overview partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com. This report is focused on 2018 Q3 and presents key statistics of the domains that are …

The ICA released a very important statement written by Zak Muscovitch on the price increase of .com domains. The ICA said that Verisign’s attempt to increase .com fees is still unjustified the despite diversionary tactic. …