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Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), a leading provider of Internet services and online marketing solutions for small businesses, announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. SnapNames is a leader in the daily online …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 2-17-14 to 2-23-14 were $1.848.381. This report includes some New gTLD pre-registration auctions at Go Daddy such as, nano.technology for …

The new* ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and registrar agreement requires all domain name owners to verify their contact details. According to the new rule, email verification is required so that domains …

Virgin and Richard Branson filed 4 URS complaints on 5 different New gTLD domain names in the past couple of days: richardbranson.holdings – richardbranson.ventures virgingalactic.guru virginaustralia.holdings branson.guru Virgin had a DPML block for the term “Virgin” …

ICANN did a blog post today reassuring European Registrars about the Data Retention Specification of 2013 RAA. Some people from the US may not understand how big the problem is here in the EU. The …

The first 2 New gTLDs launched by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry on Tuesday. Most notably Go Daddy, the world number 1 registrar,  bought GoDaddy.sexy and GoDaddy.tattoo. Go Daddy registered godaddy.sexy in sunrise but got GoDaddy.tattoo during …

Associated Press run an article about the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The world’s largest mobile phone trade show was held in Barcelona, Spain, on February 26 and 27, 2014. Fadi Chehade, head of …

The .tattoo and .sexy launch made a lot of people angry. The whois problem (that has partially been resolved but I will get to this later) and the fact that most of the good domains …

This past week the following 4 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .tips, .diamonds, .voyage and .enterprises. This week no New gTLD domain name was sold for 5-figures in the Early Access Program (EAP). …

On Monday I did a post on sunrise results for .diamonds, .enterprises, .voyage and .tips new gTLDs. I also noticed some funny, strange and more disturbingly some shady domain name registrations. As usual there was …

I am making this post to let potential sponsors that there are advertising opportunities on my blog OnlineDomain.com. OnlineDomain.com gets traffic mostly from domain investors but other people interested in the domain industry and domain …

ICANN announced that 10 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 160 new gTLD strings. The 10 new gTLDs are: .CHRISTMAS, .PUB ,.ACTOR ,.SUPPLIES ,.FISH, .VACATIONS, .INDUSTRIES, .SUPPLY, .дети (xn--d1acj3b) – Russian for “kids/deti”, .삼성 …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 4 New gTLDs today: .SHOES, .CAREERS, .PHOTOS, .RECIPES. The real challenge is how .photos is going to perform as it rolled out just 3 weeks after .photography …

Businesses beware. Scammers in Asia are trying to trick you into paying a premium for your website domain names. Don’t fall for these scare tactics. How the Scam Works: You receive an email addressed to …