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I had a problem with an unresponsive buyer for a .us domain I recently sold. The domain was transferred to his registrar but the buyer went missing for 3 days. I contacted escrow.com and asked …

NYLON Media Inc. today debuted its new domain name, NYLON.com, changing its site domain from Nylonmag.com. “NYLON is a brand synonymous with ‘It Girl’ culture.  Owning NYLON.com is the first step in a series of digital …

This week 8 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Today, the 14th of July, Punto 2012 (CentralNic) has 2 of it’s New gTLDs entering general availability: …

.BAR, a domain designed for bars and nightclubs, and .REST, the abbreviation for “restaurant” are launching simultaneously in order to create a space on the Internet specifically for the food and beverage industry. The domains …

I am sure that this week Sedo had a 7-figure domain sale that was kept private. Usually Sedo has about a million worth of sales every week. Last week Sedo sold mm.com for $1.2m and …

In the past week (June 30 to July 6), 564 (614 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.4 million ($2.3m last week). Only 167 (162 last week) domains from …

Namejet released it’s June 2014 domain name auctions report. Namejet sold 69 (76 last month) domains for $368,421 ($555,842 last month). Namejet only reports domains that were sold for $2,000 or more. I am sure …

Over 200 top-tier domain names from the FindYourDomain portfolio will be offered now through September 4, 2014 on NameJet. This is the fifth time that FindYourDomain has partnered to offer a portfolio of premium domains …

Highest sale this week at Flippa was a portfolio of 90 app-related .COMs that sold for $7,500. There were 10 other domains that made it at over 4-figures. Among them were Puddles.com, sold Exclusively at Flippa …

The .Club registry published a video in YouTube to highlight some of the sites that are already using .CLUB, as well as some of the advertising and promotion they’ve done over the past few months. …