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On 7 April 2016, .eu domain names celebrated their tenth anniversary. Since 2006, EURid, the .eu managing registry has offered the .eu extension to residents of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area …

BrandBucket.com did $2.4 Million in domain name sales in 2015, showing growth for the eighth consecutive year since opening its marketplace in 2007. BrandBucket, founded in 2007, is an online resource for finding unique brandable …

Starting Dot announced the premium domain name auction results from the first quarter of 2016. The announcement included domains sold at NamesCon as well as 2-letter domains sold at a .SKI Sedo auction. January saw …

Rightside announced today a pricing promotion on most of its premium domain names. The domains will be sold at premium prices but will carry a $10 renewal rate. The reduced renewal and transfer costs will …

The domain name 1.xyz sold for a record breaking price: $182,971. Several other domain names like hk.xyz, vip.xyz and 66.xyz sold for $30k or more. According to Sold.Domains, a website documenting all New gTLD domain …

Newgle just launched and is touted as “The non-COM search engine.”. Newgle allows you to search the web with only the New gTLDs in the results. The creators claim they built Newgle to show how …

Google announced today that they are dropping the .com from their registrar’s url Google Domains. The domain name registration service that used domains.google.com changed its url today to domains.google. Now domains.google.com redirects to domains.google. The …

Accent Media, the London-based .tickets registry, is making around 30,000 previously reserved premium names available. The registry announced that as of today, anyone seeking to build or grow a business around domains such as ‘cheap.tickets’, …

DomainAgents, the domain name negotiation platform, released a fully redesigned website and marketplace and created new domain name landers. The new DomainAgents website was developed to be a flexible platform that is intended to grow …

Uniregistry launched the new Uniregistry Market today. This starts a process where eventually DomainNameSales.com will be replaced by the Uniregistry Market. In order to sign up you have to log into your Uniregistry account, click …

The domain name marketplace Undeveloped today announced that it will host a domain name auction in cooperation with the Domaining Europe conference, which will start 24th of May and last until 31th of May. “We’re …

.London has joined forces with .NYC, the official web address for New York City, for a special social media campaign to help drive awareness of city-based Top Level Domain names. The campaign will run globally …

Architelos announced today that they are filing for bankruptcy effective immediately. The petition for Chapter 7 bankruptcy was filed today in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Customers of the NameSentry …

Cybersquatting disputes relating to new gTLDs accounted for 10.5% of WIPO’s UDRP caseload in 2015, which covered a total of 4,364 domain names.  Among these names, .XYZ, .CLUB and .EMAIL were the most common new …