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Christopher Hofman Laursen and the European Domain Centre published a list of 50+ businesses that dumped their .com (or some other gTLD or a ccTLD) for a new top level domain. They hand picked 50+ cool …

Verisign announced the Grand Prize Winner of the #InternetOfficial contest. It is KidsCookDinner.com, registered through Network Solutions. New York-based Kate K. submitted the most descriptive, memorable and original COM domain name that resonated with the …

Highest sales this week at Flippa were the domain names 1095.com that sold for $17,566. .io did very well this week with 6 sales. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 8 domains of this …

Victory! We just won the complaint for the domain name Toyotomi.com. The complaint was denied by a three member panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Complainant didn’t submit all evidence to the Panel, …

Minds + Machines announced today that Carlsberg, the brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program. After extensive consultation with Minds + Machines, Carlsberg has secured over 150 .beer domains, in a portfolio that …

After I published my published my New gTLD purchases and announced that I had invested $50,000 in New gTLD domain names some people questioned my dedication to the New gTLDs. That was because my buying …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that registrations within .work have now passed 55,000 positioning it in the top 20 of new top-level domains launched under ICANN’s new gTLD programme. The company also reported the …

Starting Dot published the Q2 2015 Premium TLD 50, and they are beginning to see some interesting trends in this space. There’s stability at the top, with the 5 biggest TLDs by volume all showing …

It was reported today by the domainincite.com that the New gTLD domain name Net.Work was sold for $100,000. The buyer was Bearingpoint IP Holding B.V. from bearingpoint.com. It was sold by the .work registry that is Minds + …

The New gTLD domain name sales report is back. Courtesy of Sold.Domains that now has more than 500 secondary market sales in its database. Donuts is releasing during the summer thousands of previously reserves domain …

Sedo announced today that they launched a new feature  today. With the new domain name Ownership Self-Verification, the ownership status of your domains won’t have to be checked manually anymore. This way they have eliminated …

Today, Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, which provides a review of the state of the domain name industry through statistical and analytical research. The following are the top-line numbers at the close …

The .CLUB Registry has decided to release almost 8,000 of their Premium reserved domain names through registrars. Up until now premium .Club domain names were only being offered by Sedo. On July 1st, 2015, the …

.LGBT (dotLGBT) domain registry operator Afilias announced the launch of the .LGBT Pride Program in celebration of two recent victories for LGBT equality: the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling regarding the right to marriage equality in the US, …