OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

September was much busier at OnlineDomain.com in terms of views and visitors as everybody got back from vacations. About 550 comments were made by readers. The most popular post was the new service I am …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and no string enters the landrush phase. Rightside enters general availability for 4 of its extensions on the 22nd …

During ICANN 51 in Los Angeles on the 16th of October the ICANN Board decided the introduction of 2-character domain names in the New gTLD namespace. ICANN decided that the proposed registry service for the …

Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation (.SE)​​ will conduct multiple auctions to release more of the .se domain names that are not currently possible to register. The domain names are two-character country codes, such as no.se, tv.se, …

The domain name DerrickRose.com sold for $834 yesterday at Go Daddy auctions. Derrick Rose is one of my favorite NBA players. I went to a Chicago Bulls in February 2012 and because it was an …

CENTR, the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries, has released its full report on the ICANN 51 Meeting held last week in Los Angeles. The report covers in detail the sessions held by …

Namejet released it’s September 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 80 (95 last month) domains for $459,621 ($743,969 last month). A few deals are in the list such as souvenirs.com for $16k. I am …

In the past week 491 (443 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.2m last week). Only 174 (160 last week) domains from the 491 were reported by Sedo. …

Youge.com was re-auctioned at Flippa because of non-payment and went for $13,388 this time. The strange thing was that is sold for more than the price it got last time: $12,538. Flippa had a great …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name BestWine.com that was sold for $5,000. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 11 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

Flippa had some great sales yesterday with LowCarb.com leading sales with $45,000. New low by .xyz registry: Google Glass Used As Bait For Students To Get Free .XYZ Domains. Every time I say that I …

I didn’t want anything to do with these people even after I saw those photos of these ridiculous purple men at ICANN 51 in Los Angeles promoting the worst of the worst in New gTLDs. …

Here are the domain name registration results from this week’s 2 New gTLD launches: .Okinawa entered general availability on the 14th of October. Okinawa prefecture is located in the southernmost of Japan. The purpose of …

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. “Google had another strong performance this quarter, with revenue up 20% year on year, at $16.5 billion,” said Patrick Pichette, …