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The 2nd annual NamesCon domain name conference, to be held in Las Vegas in January 2015, announced a major lecture series presented by TLD Registry, the world’s leading Chinese domain name registry. TLD Registry is …

I published today my renewals/drops report from October: My 476 Domain Name Renewals And 49 Drops (9.3%) I booked my flight ticket to Namescon in Las Vegas. I applied for a new passport too. Now …

As previously announced, ICANN had been working towards developing a process to permit registries to request the release of two-character ASCII domain names at the second-level for registration to 3rd parties and activation in the …

Like every month I go through my domains to see what to renew and what not to. I am a bit late on this report. So, in October I renewed 476 domains and dropped 49 …

Verisign released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief, which takes a pulse of global domain registrations and trends. The following are the domain industry’s top-line numbers at the close of Q2 2014: 4 million domain …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company will receive in aggregate $4.4 million (approximately £2.8 million) for withdrawing its applications on .latino, .school and a third …

There are 16 4-figure sales and 1 5-figure sale in the report below. One of the busiest days I have seen. I am even closer to booking my flight ticket to Namescon in Las Vegas. …

A couple of weeks back I wrote how I won a Namejet auction for a domain name owned by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. The domain name was movieheaven.com and I won the auction for $413 …

Today, December 2 2014, .Paris domains opened to everyone at a “first come, first served” basis. Looking for a typically Parisian address at an affordable price? .paris is the new Parisian top-level domain (TLD) which …

In the past week 566 (554 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million ($1m last week). Only 190 (185 last week) domains from the 566 were reported by Sedo. …

I am this close to booking my flight ticket to Namescon in Las Vegas. I have already registered for the event and the hotel is pretty easy to book but the flight from Greece to …

This is one of the biggest weeks in New gTLD launches. This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 6 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. On …

Rick Schwartz, aka the Domain King, is now officially retired as reflected on his LinkedIn page. The description under his name on LinkedIn just states “20 year plan obtained”. His job is now “Chief of …

Flippa: When you launch a website, domain, or app auction you will receive the following free upgrades valued at $136: FREE Bold listing title ($9 value) FREE Highlighted listing in search pages ($19 value) FREE …