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Namejet released it’s July 2016 domain name auctions report that includes no 3L .com and very few numeric domains. Namejet sold 102 (127 domains in June) domains in June for a total of $616,344 ($578,419 in June). Namejet only reports …

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

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2016. Rightside’s 39 gTLDs in general availability ended the quarter with approximately 523,000 registered domains, up over 70% from the …

Lease A City (www.LeaseA.City) is a new project (founded in 2016) that aims to offer city information to its online visitors through a network of .city domain names and directory websites. Lease A City owns some very …

The DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report’ (Q2, 2016) is now available for download.  The report covers the global status and registration trends in all Top Level Domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs) with additional focus on …

Rightside announced today that last month it sold two of its Premium domains, which ranked as two of the largest per domain revenue transactions in Rightside’s history. Sex.LIVE sold for $160,000 and Porn.LIVE went for $120,000. [websites are NSFW] …

Afilias announced today the acquisition of StartingDot, the Registry Operator for 3 new TLDs: .ARCHI, .BIO and .SKI. The acquisition agreement is part of Afilias’ ongoing program of acquiring new TLDs to add to its portfolio. …

Effective at 16:00 UTC on October 1, 2016, Donuts will adjust downward the standard wholesale price for new, non-premium registrations in .BUSINESS and .COMPANY. Donuts says that “This adjustment better aligns registration prices with emerging …

The domain name CourtneyLove.com expired and was auctioned yesterday at GoDaddy for $3,350. The GoDaddy auction for the 18 year old domain name attracted some interest and 38 bids were made from 12 bidders. The domain was originally …

Since 2002 that I have been in Domaining I have seen a lot. But this single page containing 100+ of trademark domain names was really a (bad) surprise. I have never seen anything like this …

Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB Domains, gives a talk called “All In A Name: How New Meaningful Domain Extensions Can Drive More Business” at HostingCon 2016 in New Orleans. Watch the video here:

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2016. GoDaddy also announced that Ray Winborne has joined the company as its new Chief Financial Officer and Scott Wagner has …

According to TheDomains.com “Sedo has decided to stop reporting the total weekly transaction number and the percentage of buy it now transactions.”. WOW. I didn’t expect that from Sedo. Or actually I did. I guess …

You can now vote for the 2016 domain industry awards that will be announced at THE Domain Conference Keynote and Awards Luncheon  on Tuesday, September 13th. You can vote until Friday morning so you need to …