OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

I wasn’t able to attend NamesCon this week but I was able to meet a domainer on Tuesday here in Athens, Greece. I met with Stu Maloff from Boca Raton, Florida. We went for a …

The South China Morning Post (scmp.com) reported today that the domain name China.com was purchased in August 2013 for HK$90.8 million. That is about $11.7 million USD. The buyer is China Radio International, a state-owned …

I have to admit it. People’s creativity in scams never seizes to amaze me. I was browsing the domain names for sale at Ebay.com when I found this for sale: “Mystery Domain Name”. I was …

Who Is Hosting This.com was kind enough to share this very useful infographic that outlines the steps that a domain name buyer has to take if he/she is interested in buying a domain name that …

I just tried to check whois details for a .org domain and it seems that the .org whois server is down and is not responding. A whois search at PIR, the .org registry, whois search …

Symantec, a computer security, antivirus, backup and SSL provider, wrote an article about the effect that new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will have on SSL certificates. There are already many new gTLDs that have been …

I missed a couple of days because there were just too many announcements and news over the past week. I am using the search terms that visitors of my blog are using at Google and …

In the past week (Jan 6 to Jan 12), 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.5 million. Only 208 domains from the 572 were reported by Sedo. The other domains were either private …

The domain name creativ.com was sold at Sedo in December 2011 for 6000 EUR. The domain was hit with a UDRP complaint at the National Arbitration Forum on the 13th of January 2014. The domain …

At 31 December 2013 the .fr TLD represented 2,716,027 domain names, an increase of 8.2% in 2013. Although this performance remains higher than the average for the world market (7.1 % according to our estimates), …