OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

This week 5 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 3 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 4 strings enter the landrush phase. On the 4th of November 3 South Africa geo New gTLDs launched: …

Prakhar Bindal of Axsiom made a guest appearance at my post “iWire.com Winning Bidder For $7,777 Tries To Sell The Domain Before He Pays For It At Snapnames” and with 20+ entertaining comments explained that …

Igloo.com recently shared some exciting data supporting speculations within the industry regarding the predominance of unreported sales. “While many sales are recorded on well-regarded industry blogs including DN Journal and Domaining.com, it is exceedingly rare …

Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. today reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2014 and it announced the purchase of the BuyDomains assets, a company related to web design called Webzai and …

Minds + Machines Group Limited provided an update today on its top-level domain launches. Minds + Machines seems to be satisfied with the revenue from its 10 New gTLDs so far but not with the …

ICANN announced that community concerns about the Ebola virus that would prevent maximum participation at its next global meeting (ICANN 52, 8-12 February 2015), a critical one given the ongoing discussions around the IANA Stewardship …

ICANN joins the Africa Information and Communication Technologies Alliance (AfICTA) and Egypt’s National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) in organizing a first of its kind two-day workshop on DNS Entrepreneurship. When: 4-5 November 2014 Where: Cairo …

There were a lot of 4-letter domains at Go Daddy auctions today. Most went pretty cheap and most were sold for $32. Do these belong to someone that will renew them is a couple of …

Back in May 2014 I made a few suggestions to ICANN regarding the New gTLD zone file access. So when I got an email with the subject “About enhancements to CZDS” I was excited. The …

ICANN sent a notice of breach to popular web host and registrar DreamHost. ICANN notes that this is the 2nd notice of breach within four months for DreamHost for failure to investigate Whois inaccuracy complaints, and …

.NYC surpassed .London in domain name registrations according to ntldstats.com. .NYC is ranked 8th today with 48,671 domains compared with .London that ranks 9th with 48,479 domains. Actually .nyc is 3rd and .london is 4th …

This is where your domain money is going. ICANN spent 2 million USD in the fiscal year 2014 on expense reimbursement and other payments to ICANN Directors plus 1.3 million of payments to the ICANN …

In the past week 554 (484 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.4m last week). Only 174 (150 last week) domains from the 454 were reported by Sedo. …

I discovered that one of my one-word .com domains went from 10 uniques per month to 300 uniques per month in just a few months. It is probably because of an app using a .mobi …