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I noticed a strange bug today with Go Daddy pre-registrations for new gTLD domain names. It seems that all pre-registrations default to a whois record for a registrant called “Fast Fix (Services) Ltd”. I had …

ICANN announced that on February 4th and 5th, 12 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 134 new gTLD strings. The 12 new gTLDs are: . 移动 (xn--6frz82g) – Chinese for “mobile”, .BLUE, …

Aaron Stong made a comment today at DomainInvesting.com about buying x.ventures and then all hell broke loose. While in the previous 10 days only 20 one character New gTLD domain names had been registered in …

Go Daddy added a help section that addresses most of the questions that users have for New gTLD Pre Registration Refunds and Auctions. There is information to answer refund and auction questions for each pre-registration …

Donuts entered general availability for the following new gTLDs: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography. I checked out the zone files from the 7 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and I found 519 registered …

In the past week (Jan 27 to Feb 2), 728 (769 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 million ($1.7 last week). Only 260 (229 last week) domains from …

The first few hours of general availability had about 19,000 new gTLD domain name registrations but that trend didn’t continue in the next 24 hours. Despite Europe and Asia getting into action, the New gTLD …

An article at TheRegister.co.uk describes how a customer of domain name registrar and web hosting provider 123-reg, owned by Host Europe Group, lost control of his account with 120+ domain names. The customer that wanted …

DomainNameSales.com, the popular parking and sales platform, just added a “Firm” price option when a seller sends a quote of a counter-offer to a buyer. I was replying to some inquiries today when I noticed …

Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) shares are now up 4.46% (4.6% early in the morning) at the London Stock Exchange after the number of uncontested top level domains in which it has an interest rose …