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DOMAINfest will be held on Sunday, September 27th at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as part of THE Domain Conference, which runs from Saturday, September 26th through Tuesday, September 29th. Jothan …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Stockholm.org that was sold for $12,800. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 3 domains of this week’s list. There were 7 domains that were …

Beginning last week, Donuts Inc., started releasing for registration 1.369 million previously reserved domain names. The domains were initially reserved because of collisions. The company is making these names available in batches each week between …

Afnic’s annual general meeting was held on June 12, 2015. On the same occasion, the association published its 2014 Activity report. For Afnic, 2014 in many ways was a year of opening, in every sense …

Namejet released it’s May 2015 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 97 (116 domains in April) domains for $$593,760 ($631,113 in April). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am …

Yesterday I published the story of the domain names ads.porn and ads.adult that were deleted by the registry because of an administrative mistake had not put the domains on the reserved list. I searched to …

A reader named James complained that the .porn and .adult registry deleted 2 domains after he had successfully registered them for about 2 days. James pre-ordered the domain names and got them in General Availability …

In a newsletter sent out today it was revealed that the domain name Commercial.Property was sold by Uniregistry at the DomainNameSales.com platform for $25,000. Commercial.Property went straight to the #9 place of the

Donuts has decided not to release any of the 2 character domains (LL ,LN, NL, NN) yet. Last month Donuts announced the availability of more than one million previously unavailable web addresses across its top-level …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of May 2015 were published by Verisign. The common keywords in the 2 lists are options, fantastic and locksmith. Top 10 Keyword …

Go Daddy published a new video called “What is the difference between a domain name and a website?”. “What is the difference between a domain name, a website and hosting? Take a moment to learn …

Today, Tuesday evening, June 9, 6:15 PM, the .NYC Domain Meetup (see details) is to examine “souvenirs.nyc” and the great placement it is receiving on Google search. Within a month of launch Souvenirs.nyc is #1 …

Namejet released it’s April 2015 domain name auctions report. I am posting this report late. May report will follow tomorrow. Namejet sold 116 (94 domains in March) domains for $631,113 ($641,557 in March). Namejet only …

DomainX 2015 is going to be held in The Taj West End, Bangalore, in India. The 2 day event (7–8 August2015) aims to bring investors, hosting providers, startups & entrepreneurs to discuss industry, and be …