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Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Sailing.info that was sold for $3,671. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 6 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

Yesterday was the final day to apply with priority for .NYC domain names. Today there are 3,441 registered .nyc domains in the zones. The .NYC priority program was designed to prevent someone else from registering …

I am getting a lot of comment spam in the past 2 weeks. I don’t know why this is happening. Did my blog become more popular or did the spammers returned from their holidays? 🙂 …

After months in development, OpenSRS has finally launched their new website. According to OpenSRS the transition from the old website to the new one, was a success. Tucows Inc. ,headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is one of the …

Go Daddy Aftermarket had it’s first Google hangout called “Buying Valuable Domains in GoDaddy’s Aftermarket”. The hangout was aimed “For anyone whose first domain choice was already registered, let’s look at the different ways in …

Today is the final day to apply with priority for .NYC domain names. Applications for priority requests will be received until October 3, 11AM New York time, but some registration sites are expected to close …

I am getting a lot of offers on New gTLD domains lately. I just switched from PPC and a sales banner to a sales/inquiry webpage only over at DomainNameSales.com. It is not like I am …

On Monday, The Huffington Post reported on domain theft, a scheme in which hackers steal valuable Internet addresses and sell them in online forums or extort their rightful owners. They now have a followup article …

Freenom will soon relaunch the .GQ top level domain – the domain extension of Equatorial Guinea – and  give all .GQ domains away for free. I think that the GQ magazine will not be too …

Another first from the .London registry, Valideus and Minds + Machines. I was just informed something remarkable about .London Priority Domains that have more than 1 application and therefore are entering an auction in a …

I was watching the down.com auction at Flippa that went for $50,000 but the reserve was not met. I own down.org and wanted to see how this goes. I don’t know if you read my …

Future Media Architects (FMA) is transferring over 100,000 domains names to the Cayman Islands based registrar Uniregistry. Uniregistry is a registrar owned by domain name investor Frank Schilling. Future Media Architects, Inc. (FMA) is owned …

Donuts released its latest newsletter and announced that it has brought 147 new gTLDs to the public, “offering more choice, specificity and meaningfulness to businesses and individuals worldwide”. They also announced that they exceeded 1,000,000 …

As of August 2014 the total number of domains across all Top Level Domains (TLDs)  stood at 282.5 million (including new gTLDs). This represents a growth of roughly 1.6% since May 2014 (4.5 million registrations). …