OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

Company just bought 3 domain names from 2 cybersquatters. The cybersquatters have been holding hostage the domain names for years. One domain has been registered for 17 years and the other 2 domains for 15 …

ICANN announced the implementation of amended rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). These 7 amendments to the UDRP rules were designed to reduce the risk of cyberflight during a UDRP proceeding. …

In the past week 572 (542 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 million ($1.4m last week). Only 223 (160 last week) domains from the 572 were reported by Sedo. …

Frank Schilling left a comment saying .property is the best real estate/property New gTLD string. What real estate/property related New gTLD do you think is the best? I had a guy offer me $1,000 for …

This week 3 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 string enters the landrush phase. On the 18th of November an Canadian geo New gTLDs is launching: …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that, for the first time, it will host a Turkey Domain Name System (DNS) forum in Istanbul on the 18th November 2014. This Turkey DNS …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), was awarded with the Best Marketing by a New gTLD trophy for 2014 at Brandma’s China New gTLD Roadshow. In the presentation, on …

October was the best month ever at OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors. More than 700 comments were made by readers. One of the two best posts I wrote in October is not even …

Frank Schilling left a comment saying .property is the best real estate/property New gTLD string. What real estate/property related New gTLD do you think is the best? There were a lot of .biz auctions over …

Frank Schilling left a comment on a .realtor post at thedomains.com talking about what he thinks is the best New gTLD string related to real estate and property. Of course he thought the his company’s …

I had a guy offer me $1,000 for a domain. I asked for $3,000. He asked me if I would accept $2,000. I told him that if he can do $2,500 we had a deal. …

I got another stupid Network Solutions Certified Offer Service. This time for the domain name ELECTIONS.info and for the amount of $100. How can I refuse such an offer? Needless to say, my counteroffer was …

Chick-fil-A, the American fast food restaurant chain, bought 8 new .restaurant domain names costing thousands of dollars each. Waste of money, if you ask me. .Restaurant, a New gTLD launched by Donuts, is out of …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs launched: .melbourne. Melbourne’s population is 4,347,955. .Melbourne got