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Trademark Clearinghouse released its latest stats: 1,181 marks have already expired & 848 marks are not verified. Heritage Auctions is now accepting premium domains for the exclusive February auction that will only have 20 domains. …

Heritage Auctions announced today that it has started accepting premium domains to be auctioned in the Exclusive February auction that will only feature 20 domains. It has been just over one year since Heritage Auctions …

ICANN sent a notice of termination of registrar accreditation agreement for the registrar Vigson, Inc. from Panama on the 18th of November 2014. As of 18 November 2014, Vigson, Inc.’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet  Corporation for Assigned …

We have not even reached the first year anniversary of the first New gTLD and marks are already expiring at the TMCH. So far 33,902 marks have been submitted to the Trademark Clearinghouse as of …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 3 New gTLD launches: On the 18th of November the Canadian geo New gTLD .quebec launched and got 3,911 domain name registrations. Quebec …

Namejet released it’s October 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 67 (80 last month) domains for $503,394 ($459,621 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

Dish DBS Corporation won today the auction for the .Dot New gTLD for just $700,000. Dish beat .dot other applicant Google’s company Charleston Road Registry Inc. This was the cheapest

I don’t know if you heard but world.estate was sold by Nokta for $35,000. The domain is not even a premium. It has a regular renewal price. DomainHoldings.com sold luxury.estate back in June for $50,000. …

Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domains and their accompanying suite of services. Set to launch in early …

As many of you know Google applied for the .Google New gTLD and the application was accepted by ICANN as a .brand string. Google has since signed the registry contract with ICANN and the New …

The .NYC Advisory Board published a report on the .NYC Landrush that involved 10,506 domain names. My estimate is that the .nyc landrush revenue was at about $1.2 to $1.3 million. This includes the landrush …

Aruba S.p.A. (http://www.aruba.it), a company offering web hosting, certified email and domain names services as well as a cloud provider in Europe (http://www.arubacloud.com) since 2011, has been awarded the .cloud extension, thus supporting Aruba’s ambitious …

Company bought 3 domain names from 2 cybersquatters: 3M Company and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Read about this shocking news here! I noticed today that DavenportLyons.com sold at DropCatch.com for $271. The domain was once …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name QXN.com  that was sold for $12,101. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 7 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are …