OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

Frank Schilling, owner of the popular Domain Name Sales platform, published his newsletter about the upcoming new year. He said that domain sales were robust in 2013 and the DomainNameSales.com secondary marketplace sales far and away …

Today, Sedo’s broker Dave Evanson brokered Jobs.ca for $450,000. Congratulations to the seller and the buyer! The domain was registered in 2000. The domain Jobs.ca still features a developed website that promises to match people …

In the past few days I learned that 2 domain name auctions that I had won were cancelled. And this was not the usual Go Daddy cancelled auction we all know and love. One was …

ICANN opened today a comment period for New gTLD Auction Rules. The purpose is to gather community input regarding the detailed rules and processes for Auctions to resolve string contention sets in the New gTLD …

Registrar NameJuice.com (“Brandon Gray”) has been behind the “Domain Registry of America”  (DRoA) or “Domain Renewal Group” scam that sends domain name expiration letters all over the world asking for domain name renewals at the price …

Nominet has delegated the new second-level .uk domain names royal.uk, princeofwales.uk, supremecourt.uk and jcpc.uk to the Royal Household, the Household of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Supreme Court of the …

During Q3 2013, the number of .eu registrations decreased by 3 051 domain names, a net decrease of -0.1%, to 3.70 million. The total number of .eu domain name registered at the end of Q3 …

In the context of the recent Caribbean ICT Week, Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO, and Ms. Bernadette Lewis, Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase cooperation and …

ICANN Ombudsman has received a number of complaints about the results received from the dispute resolution providers in the new gTLD applications. He replied to these complaints and he said that the real problem is …

The Pirate Bay, the popular torrent search engine, just moved again to a new domain name: thepiratebay.pe. It had moved to thepiratebay.ac just 2 days ago after the domain ThePirateBay.sx was seized. The Peruvian domain …