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According to west.cn the domain name i.vip sold for ¥700,000 (about $100,667) in an auction that ended yesterday. The sale came just days after the .vip extension got approval by the Chinese government. The domain i.vip …

In a transaction concluded last month, Donuts successfully acquired the .IRISH generic top-level domain (gTLD) from Dot-Irish LLC for an undisclosed amount.  This brings the total number of domains managed by Donuts to 198. Donuts …

Enom is offering an account level optional OPT-OUT of the 60-day domain transfer lock on both retail and reseller accounts that will affect all domains under the account. This opt-out option is disabled by default. …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) announced today plans to advertise in the 2017 Super Bowl. As part of its 12th Super Bowl campaign, GoDaddy plans to pull out all the stops to promote a new, yet-to-be-released …

Verisign is running a new .NET campaign called “Uncommonly Timeless” that is of course using a .net domain name: UncommonlyTimeless.net. Here is why Verisign thinks you should you choose a .net domain: Est. 1985 .net …

The Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) released the 2017-2019 U.S. Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement titled “Supporting Innovation, Creativity & Enterprise: Charting a Path Ahead.” The US government plans …

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE:NSR), today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by a private investment group led by Golden Gate Capital in a transaction valued at approximately $2.9 billion, including …

CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC), announced today that it has entered into its largest ever premium domain name sale agreement under which it will receive consideration of US$ 4.5 million. The press release does not mention the …

ICANN published the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System December 2016 report. This latest report of the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) acts as a follow-on to the reports published in June 2016 and December 2015. The …

GMO Registry, Inc. announced that .shop, the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over two months since .shop opened for business on September 26, 2016. On June 30, …

Art Malkov published an article called “Here’s How to Make it As a Startup in New York” on tech.co. Here are a few quotes from the article: Over the last five years, New York has …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of November 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. There are a lot of common keywords in …

A new book just came out by Andrei Polgar called “Wealth Management 2.0”. Andrei Polgar is a domain name investor and a blogger at DomainingTips.com. It took Andrei 3 years to write and with the …

On December 13*, at 10:00 am Eastern Time .CLUB will be releasing approximately 9,300 NEW premium names into the registrar channel in the tiered premium offerings. These names include names that were previously registered by …