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Sedo has completely cut me off after I wrote 2 articles last week about Sedo’s declining numbers in number of sold domains and criticizing many of the issues they have for years and their lack …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful consideration and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, has rejected the unsolicited proposal from Donuts Inc. to acquire Rightside’s …

Nominet, the .UK registry, released an annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) in 2015. A total of 728 complaints were made to Nominet in 2015, just two more …

Afnic, the .fr ccTLD registry, produced its 2015 annual report. Afnic operates both the .fr ccTLD and 13 New gTLDs. Afnic’s main achievements and commitments in 2015 Finalization of the opening of the registration of …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, and ChopChop.domains is releasing the last installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. Here are the previous 9 installments: the number 7 …

In February of this year Donuts announced its newly minted “trusted notifier” program with the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”). It was the first arrangement of its kind in the domain name industry made …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.88 MB] the findings from its Phase 2 Global Consumer Research Survey. The key findings are listed below. Conducted by Nielsen, the study measured …

Heather Dopson, a community builder at GoDaddy, and Joe Styler, the aftermarket product manager at GoDaddy, chatted about the basics of buying Expired Domains on GoDaddy’s auctions. They talked about the timeline of when and …

ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement with Verisign. This proposal is a result of discussions between ICANN and Verisign, Inc. and will extend the .com registry agreement …

The Undeveloped.com New gTLD auction is underway with just 7 days left so the Undeveloped team shared the most undervalued names that they currently have in auction. The auction runs from the 20th June to …

I wrote an article 2 days ago called “Is Sedo Slowly Dying?” and Andrew Allemann from DomainNameWire.com added more stats on this article. So here are a few more numbers I found about the amount …

Google Domains wants to grow its domain name business so they are now offering one free domain name (.com, .net, .org, .biz, or .info, a $12 value) to each of their customers. The free domain …

Robert Monster, CEO of DigitalTown.com and Epik.com, made a lengthy comment (and then a few more smaller comments) on the article I wrote about the announcement of the new DigitalTown platform involving 11,000 .City domain …

.CO, part of Neustar, Inc., will launch its first Chinese auction on July 5. The auction, which will be held exclusively on Chinese auction platform 22.cn, will offer many two-letter domains like CY.co and XN.co. The auction concludes …