Rightside Group, Ltd. hosted its first Investor & Analyst Day on Friday, December 5, at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. The event featured presentations by eight members of Rightside’s management team, with in-depth …
Read More »Heritage Auctions Exclusive Premium Domains Auction Will Be Held At Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York
Heritage Auctions will hold an exclusive premium domain name auction on February 9th at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. This auction will feature a maximum of 30 (it was 20 last …
Read More »Proposed Renewal of .JOBS TLD Registry Agreement
ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed agreement for renewal of the 2005 Registry Agreement for .JOBS which is set to expire on 5 May 2015. This proposal is a result of discussions between …
Read More »Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) Stats: 43 ccTLDs, 35 gTLDs, 50+ New gTLDs
ICANN shared some data about the considerable progress made to deploy Internationalized Domain Names in the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone file. In 2010, hostnames used in the DNS were limited to a subset …
Read More ».Paris: 12,000 Purchased Domains Names
The .Paris registry announced that the .paris has been successful with 12,000 purchased domain names so far. “A week after the public opening , the new web address Paris has already surpassed the 12,000 websites …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (12-08-2014): SnowflakeDB.com $6,000, Headout.com $3,450
Some people have no shame. I got an inquiry again today from the guy that offered me $2,000 and I started the escrow transaction and then 2 days later he said he could only afford …
Read More »Only 8,16% Of All .Guru Domains Have Been Renewed So Far – Will This Reach 80% In 2 Months?
Only 8,16% of all 70k registered .guru domains have been renewed so far, 2 months before a lot of domains start expiring. As expected EAP renewal rate is higher. Of course most people wait until …
Read More »TLD Registry & Right Of The Dot Partner To Offer Chinese Domains To Western Audience
TLD Registry Ltd, the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, today announced a partnership agreement with Internet advising and consulting firm, RightoftheDot, LLC (ROTD). “ROTD …
Read More »Symantec Will Verify .Bank & .Insurance Generic Top-Level Domains
fTLD Registry Services, LLC announced an agreement with Symantec Corporation to provide verification services for the “.bank” and “.insurance” generic top-level domains. In this role, Symantec will add a layer of protection to the new …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (12-07-2014): Wonei.com $4,550, FireplaceGateway.com $1,176
I made the first post today of what will be a series of articles with some of my domain name sales. The first post has 100 .info domain sales I have made over the past …
Read More »100 .Info Domain Name Sales In 10 Years For $330,000+
I am listing today 100 .info domain names that I have sold in the past 10 years. I started buying .info domains in Land rush 2 back in July 2002. At that time I spend …
Read More »Namejet Adds ‘Buy Now’ & ‘Bulk Deal’ Features
Namejet updated its terms of use on the 3rd of December and it was mainly done to add a couple of new features. The 2 new features are a “Buy Now” indicator that domain names …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Pizza, .Network, .Business, .Auction, .Software
This week 6 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. 4 Donuts New gTLDs are out of EAP and enter the real …
Read More »CentralNic Sells Premium Domain Names For $2.5 Million
CentralNic plc announced today that it has sold a number of premium domain names for US$2.5 million, satisfied in cash. CentralNic said that the release of new Top-Level Domains has been slower than anticipated. The …
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