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The newly constituted Board of Directors of the Domain Name Association (DNA), the Internet domain industry’s only global trade association, has elected its officers, the organization today announced. With its leaders in place and a …

Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners (one of the largest portfolio applicant groups leading this revolution with 57 applications) is delighted to announce the successful resolution of the contention set for …

Buy 12 Donuts Domains and Get A 13th Free.  Also, 5% Discount for anything less. The special will run for just three days, from April 9-11, 2014.  A Baker’s Dozen is where the purchaser orders …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 2 New gTLDs today: .Holiday and .Marketing These 2 strings are interesting but I am not sure how many domains will not be reserved by the registry …

Verisign today announced that five million domain names were added to the Internet in Q4 of 2013, bringing the registered domain names total to 271 million worldwide. Compared to last year, worldwide registrations have grown …

Heritage Auctions (HA.com) held it’s 2nd domain name auction today. The auction had 100 domains for sale and 28 domains sold. The other 72 domains didn’t reach the reserve. Highlights include the sale of LK.com for …

ICANN sends 2nd notice of breach to registrar NameJuice.com that is responsible for the “Domain Registry of America” scam. NameJuice.com got another notice of breach this past December which I believe that was fixed because …

President and CEO of ICANN, Fadi Chehadé, Lawrence Strickling of NTIA, Robert M. McDowell, and Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda discussed the ICANN transition and its consequences for the evolution of internet governance. In March, the …

Amendments to the terms and conditions governing registrations of popular .uk domain names such as .co.uk and .org.uk will take effect next month, to formalise procedures for suspending domain names used to carry out online …

Sedo just announced that it sold the domain name gab.com for $200,002 USD. The domain, registered in 1998, was sold in the March Great Domains Auction and was confirmed as paid today. The domain seems …