OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

An article called “British businesses fall victim to ‘cybersquatters’ amid domain name rollout” was posted on telegraph.co.uk. Although the article has some useful information it seems that on a few points it’s a bit off. …

Yesterday, while posting the Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales, I noticed that some domains from last week were reported once again in this week. I contacted Afternic and they confirmed it. Some of the domain …

Mason Cole, Donuts.co’s VP of Communications and Industry Relations, gave an interview on Vice.com. At the end of his interview he talked about new gTLD popularity and how it compares to the success of .com: …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2013 and year ended Dec. 31, 2013. Verisign Registry Services added 1.29 million net new names …

Above.com, owner of popular domain name forum DomainState.com, announced a few updates on the forum including 3 new domain tools, Domain Directory Listings, Themed Domain Auctions, etc. The new domain tools that were added are: …

Rightside™, the domain name services business of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), today announced new partnerships with many of the world’s leading registrars to bring its portfolio of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) to market.  More than 40 …

Donuts entered general availability for the following new gTLDs: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography. 7 new gTLD domains sold for $12,539,99 a piece in the past 24 hours and all of them were …

The domain name BitcoinWallet.com was sold for $250,000 while the domain name BitcoinWallets.com is pending sale for $200,000. Entrepreneur Niko Younts is the seller for both domains and made the announcement at his Twitter account: …

I know everyone says that new gTLDs bring more choice to the end users but it seems to me that end-users need to learn a lot more about domain names in general before jumping on …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 1-27-14 to 2-2-14 were $1.954.130 . It seems that some domains from last week were reported once again in …