OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

Juan Diego Calle that is the founder and CEO at .CO Internet SAS posted an article at the Go.Co blog. I more or less agree with his post. He asked a question: “In the next …

ICANN sent a notice of termination of registrar accreditation agreement for the registrar ABSYSTEMS INC dba yournamemonkey.com on the 20th of December 2013. ABSYSTEMS INC dba yournamemonkey.com ’s ( “ ABSYSTEMS ” ) Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet …

The Pirate Bay moves again and again looking for a permanent domain name. Yesterday once again it left Guyana and thepiratebay.gy and returned to Sweden and the domain ThePirateBay.se. This is the fourth time it …

I was out eating steaks and drinking red wine yesterday and when I came back home I had a look at my auction history at Namejet. I saw that the domain cupcakes.info had been sold …

These are the 2013 top sales that Flippa announced today. The data is collected from 1 January 2013 to 11 November 2013. Flippa also introduced an “Enhanced Domain Search” featuring filtering domains by character limit, …

CENTR has published its latest ccTLD newsletter for December 2013. CENTR is the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries such as .uk in the United Kingdom and .es in Spain. CENTR has 52 …

The Pirate Bay, the popular torrent search engine, just moved again to a new domain name: thepiratebay.gy. This is the third time it changes domain names in just a few days. It had moved to …

Back in December 2004, 9 years back, I got the domain name Greenpeace.info using a Go Daddy backorder so I could donate it to the Greenpeace organization. A week after I got it I send …

Frank Schilling, owner of the popular Domain Name Sales platform, published his newsletter about the upcoming new year. He said that domain sales were robust in 2013 and the DomainNameSales.com secondary marketplace sales far and away …

Today, Sedo’s broker Dave Evanson brokered Jobs.ca for $450,000. Congratulations to the seller and the buyer! The domain was registered in 2000. The domain Jobs.ca still features a developed website that promises to match people …

In the past few days I learned that 2 domain name auctions that I had won were cancelled. And this was not the usual Go Daddy cancelled auction we all know and love. One was …

ICANN opened today a comment period for New gTLD Auction Rules. The purpose is to gather community input regarding the detailed rules and processes for Auctions to resolve string contention sets in the New gTLD …

Registrar NameJuice.com (“Brandon Gray”) has been behind the “Domain Registry of America”  (DRoA) or “Domain Renewal Group” scam that sends domain name expiration letters all over the world asking for domain name renewals at the price …

Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the Household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Supreme Court of the …