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NamesCon Online 2021 conference starts today. NamesCon Online 2021 conference runs from January 27 to January 29 2021. I went through the agenda and picked the best sessions of day 1. Some of the sessions …

Frank Schilling is selling his 23 New gTLDs and getting out of domain names completely after selling Uniregistry and his domain name portfolio to GoDaddy last year. UNR (the name of the registry) has setup …

Afternic announced that it is launching a new and improved version of its domain name “For Sale” landing page – a simplified experience with a more elegant mobile design. Results from its recent experiment are …

Mike Mann reports selected domain name sales on social media that OnlineDomain.com reports monthly. These are Mike Mann’s top 10 domain name sales in 2020. Ready.org $169,888 LightRock.com $94,888 Society.org $75,000 ListeningRoom.com $75,000 Dance.co $58,000 …

From today, SIDN, the .NL registry, is linking an informative landing page to domain names whose name servers have been delinked. In its role as operator of the .nl domain, SIDN can delink the servers …

Uniregistry, a GoDaddy company, is introducing a new payment process for sold domain names in the coming months. The new process will manage all future domain name payments and services to help streamline payment experience. …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), the top-level domain registry company, announces that it has entered into a settlement agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) with the vendors of ICM Registry, LLC (“ICM”), including Mr Stuart Lawley, …

Erik Brooks and Fadi Chehadé, Co-CEOs of Ethos Capital, made the announcement today that Ethos Capital is going to acquire controlling interest of Donuts Inc. Last month Donuts completed the acquisition of Afilias. Here is …

Tucows Downloads, the software download site that has been around since 1993, has been retired after more than 25 years of service. I didn’t know anything about domain names when I was using Tucows to …

Mike Mann reported 9 of his domain name sales in December for a total of $146,064. Reported prices started at $8,888 and went up to $25,400. All 9 domains were .com. The average reported domain …

Last year saw the registration of 995,000 new .nl domain names. That’s 20 per cent up on 2019, when 827,000 new .nls were created. Thanks to the registration surge, the total number of .nl domain …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the launch of an audit program aimed at reviewing how registrars are fulfilling their contractual obligations related to addressing reports of potentially abusive domains. This …

GoDaddy issued a statement regarding the removal of the website AR15.com from GoDaddy registrar and hosting. Why did GoDaddy suspend services to AR15.com? On January 8, we received a complaint regarding certain content on AR15.com. …

Today it was Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, that made a tweet about domain names. 2 days ago it was Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, that tweeted about domain names. This is what Chad Hurley …