Domaining News

Namesilo added a new page to their website showing the number of domains registered with them along with a breakdown by TLD. The list includes all extensions including gTLDs, ccTLDs and New gTLDs. This is …

DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC PINK: DGTW) and CityInformation B.V., have entered into an agreement for DigitalTown to acquire the assets of CityInformation. CityInformation develops and operates mobile apps for cities and towns worldwide. Mobile apps are …

Directnic announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire domain name registrar Fabulous.com from Dark Blue Sea Pty. Limited. The transaction is expected to close later today. I was expecting this will …

Tough Domains is a set of tools for creating a domain name marketplace, domain for sale landing pages and for instant website development among other things. Tough Domains created a video to describe their tools in …

Since the last Domaining Europe conference in Berlin Dietmar Stefitz tried to get a venue in Rome, but was impossible. The cheapest hotel in the category he was looking costs over 250 € per night. And …

US bancrupty court approved yesterday the sale of the domain names Vanity.com and Vanity.net and the Vanity.com trademark for the sum of $340,000 after an auction:”Debtor is authorized to sell, transfer, and convey the Domain …

VeriSign, Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter of 2017. Business Highlights Verisign ended the third quarter with 145.8 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 1.2 percent …

Afternic has increased the maximum price for Fast Transfer domains to $50,000 from $25,000. Afternic claims that domain names that are priced and opted in to Fast Transfer have 25% higher sales velocity. What is …

This seems like a new low for Uniregistry domain name brokers and it is really insulting to domain buyers. I inquired about a domain name in July 2016 and 21 emails later (yes they don’t …

The Escrow.com platform API is now available in public beta. The Escrow API can be used for payments for your website, mobile app or marketplace with no chargebacks, ever. With no minimum fee and priced …

Mike Mann reported selling 9 domain names in September for a total of $136,502. Mike had 6 5-figure sales and another 2 sales very close to $10k. Highest reported sale was Koniku.com that sold for $30,000. …

.London is launching a new marketing campaign. This new localised campaign aims to encourage London’s small businesses to show pride in their association with the capital, to help increase brand awareness, encourage new registrations and …

I got a reply from an interested buyer of one of my domain names saying that the price I quoted was ridiculous. Is the quoted domain name price really ridiculous? How does the buyer know? …

A couple of weeks ago Undeveloped and Epik decided to discontinue working together. In September it was announced that the Undeveloped.com acquisition by Epik was not going to be completed. Rob Monster, Founder, Chairman and CEO …