Domaining News

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 …

Undeveloped announced today that they are adopting blockchain technology and will soon release Undeveloped tokens. “We’re convinced that the future of the domain industry lies in the blockchain and Undeveloped is taking a major step …

Verisign just launched a new .com campaign with tagline “With a .com, you can become anything you want.” The campaign is using the domain name YouCouldBe.com. They are also making a play with the word …

CentralNic has agreed with Germany’s KSregistry GmbH for CentralNic’s wholesale division to provide its services for 14 Top-Level Domain extensions currently managed by Open Registry, which KSregistry acquired from Group NCC in 2017. Under the …

Tough Domains is a relatively new tool that has been developing its online services for the past 2 years. Tough Domains is a New York based company that “was founded on the principles of providing …

Rob Monster, CEO of DigitalTown, talked more extensively about Digital Town, its 6 acquisitions and the plans for the future of this public company. DigitalTown recently acquired JustLegal.com, hired Frank Robles and also Braden Pollock …