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The Q3 installment of the 2015 Premium TLD 50 is now available and last quarters analysis shows a number of movers and shakers in the top 50. StartingDot’s very own .ski premium TLD jumped into the Top 50 immediately on …

Last week I wrote about a reader that complained that his .xyz domain name was suspended by the registry after a trademark complaint. I advised the reader to reply to the registry with a simple …

Highest domain name sale this week at Flippa was CLN.com that sold for $45,000. There were a lot of LLLL.com domain name sales this week similar to other marketplaces lately. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for …

Allegravita’s China Boot Camp has launched. China Boot Camp is a domain name masterclass on China. Recorded from the main-stage at DOMAINfest.Asia in September 2015, Allegravita’s Simon Cousins and Raymond Li explore the Chinese domain name market opportunity …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of September 2015 were published by Verisign. There are no common keywords in the 2 lists. XYZ appears in the .com list …

101Domain announced today that it was acquired by Afilias. Wolfgang Reile, current President & CEO will be stepping down. Anthony M. Beltran will be the next CEO. Here is the official announcement:

I got an email from a reader that thought he had received a UDRP or a URS on his .xyz domain name. It turned out he was wrong. The registry had suspended his domain name. …

For a limited time, NameJet is lowering the minimum bid for Pending Delete (Dropping) Domain Names to $39. It seems that the fierce competition from DropCatch and Pheenix is driving drop prices down and Namejet wants …

I made the impossible. Well, it is not really impossible since I actually did it but I will explain… One night I went to sleep leaving my PC open doing some whois queries, downloading zone …

As of today, fTLD has received more than 6,000 applications for .bank domain names and approximately 5,400 have been approved for an approval rate of 97%. The most common reason for a an application to …

The October Special Edition of CSC’s New gTLD Utilization Report shows the pace of .brand registrations accelerating with a 50% increase since the September report. The report shares further examples of .brands in use and …

New York City and Neustar, the official registry operator for .nyc, released today over 16,000 new .nyc website addresses for businesses, organizations, and individuals with a physical address in the five boroughs. Domain names are …

Radix, the .online/.tech/.website registry, published a video from their PR efforts in the streets of San Francisco. “We were creating a buzz on the streets, talking about the awesome new domain names available – .TECH …

September was a busy month of travel for the .CLUB team, starting and ending the month with events focused on the Domain Investor community, DomainFest Asia in Macau and then The Domain Conference in our …