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GoDaddy‘s newest commercial is out and it seems that former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal likes the new Shaq made of cheese that is featured in the ad. The ad is part of the new ‘Go You’ …

CNNIC and Verisign signed on April 19 an agreement for the real name verification service of Verisign’s .COM and .NET top-level domains. Aiming to the healthy development of the Chinese domain name industry, CNNIC will provide …

Amazon attempts to make one, but ultimately all, of its new extensions restricted despite ICANN’s ban on closed generic TLDs. Amazon Registry Services, Inc., the Registry Operator of .MOI TLD, has filed to ICANN a …

Heritage Auctions (HA.com) held a premium domain name auction today in San Francisco. The highest price paid in the auction was for the domain name Quick.com that was sold for $299,000. Not far behind, the …

Dominion Registries, the .homes registry, announced today that a special Request for Proposal (RFP) period has opened for a group of premium .Homes domain names. The domain names are being considered for release for registration …

Soon Australians will be able to make first level domain name registrations in .au, for example, “MyName.au”. The .au domain extension is the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) restricted to use by individuals, organisations, …

Squarespace announced the launch of Squarespace Domains,  that allows its customers to buy their domain names without leaving the Squarespace website. Squarespace has been known for building websites for more than 10 years but now you …

VeriSign, Inc. announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all …

The .Club domain name registry published its March domain name sales report. The .Club registrar channel was supplemented by an domain auction and the two solid direct sales to deliver steady .CLUB premium name sales …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of March 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” made the list once again at number …

GoDaddy made public today its new commercial. The ad is part of the new ‘Go You’ campaign by Go Daddy and comes in a short video and an extended version. Both versions are posted below …

NameJet and SnapNames announced today that they have combined their resources to compete at the drop catch segment of the domain name aftermarket. NameJet and SnapNames are now combining backorders for pending delete domain names …

The Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) website moved today from mindsandmachines.com to www.mmx.co. Minds + Machines announced today that it has reached an agreement for Nominet to take over the technical back-end registry functions for up …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) announced today that it has reached an agreement for Nominet to take over the technical back-end registry functions for up to 28 top level domains within the Group’s portfolio. …