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On 17 September 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; BUY, TECH, and VIP. …

I was bidding on a domain at Go Daddy auctions and there was one bidder that was increasing the bid by $10 on my proxy bid every 5 minutes. It is very frustrating because the …

Uniregistry has 2 buses going around Los Angeles, California with a .Sexy ad on them: http://areyou.sexy. The ad was a great idea as it will increase New gTLD recognition to all kinds of people on the …

Afilias today announced that six leading organic brands are participating in the .ORGANIC domain pioneer program and plan to launch .ORGANIC sites soon. These brands include: Rodale Institute — Organic pioneers since 1947, the Rodale Institute …

The European Registries for Internet Domains (EURid), published their comprehensive World Report on Internationalized Domain Names 2014. The New gTLD chapter features TLD Registry‘s 2 IDN New gTLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese …

It’s a mad, mad, mad world. I had another deal gone bad after another buyer disappeared. I had 3 bad deals in a week last month and a few others. So after the deal I …

DotGreen Community, Inc. and Afilias announced today their partnership supporting the .green Top Level Domain (TLD). .Green is touted as “the world’s first TLD for the growing green economy, businesses, social and environmental initiatives.” The …

GoDaddy launched a new 2014 advertising campaign with 2 new television commercials, online and print advertising and social media engagements. The rollout is part of GoDaddy’s overall mission to target small business owners. The new …

After eliminating the minimum $10 commission fee across all domain and website auctions and domain catalog sales last week Flippa continues this week with even more improvements. Flippa has unveiled a few changes and a …

Here are the domain name registration results from yesterday’s 8 New gTLD launches: Afilias’s .Organic entered general availability and has 27 domains after day 1. It only added 1 domain since the day before. But …