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Evidence that the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) is advising complainants on how to win a complaint OR it simply allows complaints that don’t follow the UDRP rules to proceed has come to light. The complainant, …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2015. Business Highlights: Rightside’s 39 owned and operated gTLDs in general availability ended 2015 with over 400,000 registered …

The Domain Name Association (The DNA), the Internet domain industry’s trade association, announced that it conducted its inaugural Healthy Domains Initiative (HDI) summit last week, a meeting focused on healthy growth within the domain name …

I checked the last 50 spam emails I received to see what domain names the spammers are using. I have to say that this is not a scientific study in any way and maybe these …

Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today announced the upcoming issuance of a Request for Information for the procurement of its back-end registry services. Afilias, the current PIR …

I wrote a post asking readers to submit their comments on the upcoming changes on OnlineDomain.com and some recent updates I did. I asked readers to inform me of any problems and the only (not sure) …

You may have noticed that I have not been posting as much as I am used to in the past 2 weeks. It is not like I don’t have anything to write, trust me I …

In the past week 534 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million. Sedo does not report domains that are part of private sales or domains that sold for less than 700 USD/EUR/GBP. Over 57% of total sales were the …

VeriSign reported domain name business and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2015. Business Highlights: Verisign Registry Services added 4.6 million net new names during the fourth quarter, ending with 139.8 …

I decided last night to watch the Silicon Valley TV show from the first episode. I had only watched 2-3 episodes of the show here and there, mostly on flights. I started watching episode 1 …

I wrote an article with details about my domain name portfolio including the total number of domains and the percentage of each TLD I invest in. I want to ask you to guess what is …

THE Domain Conference has a limited Special deal on Admissions to TDC 2016. From now through February 14th, you and your spouse can attend for the low price of $399 (+ tax) for both you …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of January 2016 were published by Verisign. China related domain names dominate the .com list. “Smith” and “Lock” are the only common …

Donuts and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) jointly announced an agreement to help ensure that websites using domains registered with Donuts are not engaged in large-scale piracy. Under the terms of the agreement, …