OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

Yep Go Daddy has officially lost it. They actually think that they are protecting me by keeping a trademark New gTLD domain name, I never bought, active. Are you confused? Read on… Yesterday I made …

Bings’s webmaster blog posted an article on whether someone starting a new website should buy that “perfect” domain name. At the beginning of the article Bind acknowledges domaining because “Domains are, essentially, real estate.”. Many …

Almost 45% of all New gTLD domain names are registered with Go Daddy, eNom comes second with 8,65%, Network Solutions is third with 8,44%, United Domains is 4th with 7,89% and Name.com is 5th with …

Last summer, ICANN announced the 2013 RAA, which was created to foster transparency and accountability in the domain name industry. The RAA is the contract registrars sign with ICANN that outlines the rules they agree …

NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, or ‘the Group’), the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, has acquired the right to operate the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .trust from Deutsche Post, for an undisclosed …

I was going through UDRP complaint fillings and noticed that a lot of pharmaceutical companies are quite active in filing complaints lately. There was always a company that was going stronger at one time or …

The public consultation on the new Ordinance on Internet Domains (OID) runs from 12th February 2014 to 17th April 2014. The Ordinance stipulates, among other things, that end customers will no longer be able to …

This week Afternic added support for the first 14 New TLDs, including .GURU,  .PHOTOGRAPHY, .VENTURES, .GALLERY, .HOLDINGS, .BIKE, and .SINGLES. Afternic customers can now buy and sell domains with these extensions on the one of …

Go Daddy just registered 2 trademark domain names in my name it found in my account shopping cart. I repeat: I didn’t buy these 2 domains. Go Daddy bought them and charged my credit card …

In the past week (Feb 3 to Feb 9), 793 (728 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 million ($1.1 last week). Only 264 (260 last week) domains from …