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I don’t believe that the people at Go Daddy didn’t know that this would happen. No way. Go Daddy’s Superbowl 2015 ad was published today and it is causing a bit of a controversy. The …

The January 2015 edition of the Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names reviews the developments and trends in the French domain name market in 2014 after the opening of the new gTLDs. The .fr TLD …

Not all .io domain names are suited for the next startup. Here is one: Funeral.io sold for $279. But I guess a funeral has some “io” involved… Here is the first past of my photo …

This week 5 New gTLD enter General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs out of EAP and into General Availability on …

As many of you know I went to what was my first domain name conference: NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas. I enjoyed the conference and got a few photos in the process. I will be …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from last week’s 3 New gTLD launches: Two geo New gTLDs from Belgium entered general availability this week: .brussels and .vlaanderen. According to NameStat.org .Brussels had …

Verisign launched today a .com contest where you could win up to $35,000. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of .com, Verisign, the .com registry operator, today launched the #InternetOfficial contest, to help fuel small business …

NameJet Sold 941 Domains Names For Almost 6 Million USD In 2014 Trademark Clearinghouse: 1,626 Marks Have Expired While Submissions Are Slowing Down .Net Domain Name Price Goes Up 10% On February 1st, 2015 (Up …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was the domain name Coolant.com that was sold for $8,500. Post-Auction Negotiation was the method of sale for 2 domains of this week’s list. These Flippa post-auction negotiations are working …

In the past week 603 (593 in the previous week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.6m in the previous week). Only 207 (198 in the previous week) domains …