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Afternic announced that its distribution in Russian Federation has doubled to cover up to 85% of end-user demand for domain names. Newly launched partnerships with strategic registrars, including Reg.ru, Webnames.ru, and Imena.ua help bring high-quality …

In the past week (Apr 14 to Apr 20), 513 (620 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1.3m last week). Only 153 (209 last week) domains from …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-13-14 to 4-20-14 were $1.982.736. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

Five months ago, ICANN launched the new WHOIS website (whois.icann.org), a one-stop shop for questions and information about everything WHOIS, the Internet’s record system of domain registration data. This new portal was just the first …

This past week the following 3 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .farm, .codes and .viajes. Also Sedo announced some .club domain name sales. Some of the sales are difficult to find as …

The .Rich registry, I-Registry Ltd., has registered 16 .rich domains to a sister company of theirs called i-content Ltd. All domains are parked at Sedo and are for sale. It seems that more registries are following …

Architelos Inc. announced the publication of the third NameSentry NameSpace Quality Report.  The report measures the comparative safety of the Internet’s largest Top Level Domains (TLDs) by measuring the concentration of spam, phishing, botnets, and malware in each …

VeriSign, Inc., the global leader in domain names, today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2014. First Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Verisign”) reported revenue of $249 million for the …

This is how I backordered the domain name DNSHost.com on Namejet back in 2010 only to win an auction last week! Back in 2010 I sold the similar domain HostDNS.com on Sedo for 6000 Euro …

SedoMLS Network Now Bringing 17 Million Premium Domains to Third Largest Registrar’s Leading Reseller Channel. Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global providers of …