OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

On November Snapnames started making charges for “catching” unregistered domains for a $69 fee. The result was that a lot of Snapnames customers were charged for forgotten domains in their accounts with one user being …

Yesterday Go Daddy’s 2nd 2013 Super Bowl commercial came out featuring auto racing driver Danica Patrick introducing model Bar Refaeli and a geek named Walter played by Jesse Heiman. The commercial is named “Perfect Match” …

Go Daddy sold 35,156 domains in January. That is almost a 5% increase from December’s 33,446 domains. 52% (55% in December) of the sales were from auctions, 46% (43% in December) of the sales were from Buy …

ICANN accredited registrar HEXONET released the latest news about it’s New gTLDs pre registrations. Some gTLD applicants are already accepting pre-registrations and HEXONET is using an “Expression of Interest”(EOI) service, to allow users to preregister …

Yesterday I wrote about how Google won a UDRP Complaint at the National Arbitration Forum for the domain name GlassGoogle.com. Google had an easy UDRP win as the Respondent failed to submit a Response in …

Complainant McLaren Health Care Corporation got a trademark registration for the mark “mclaren” on October 16, 2012 so they thought it would be a good idea to file UDRP complaints for every domain name incorporating …

Craig Schwartz that is the Director of fTLD Registry Services, LLC sent a letter to Ms. Christine Willett, General Manager of the New gTLD Program at ICANN asking for an extension to the objection filing …

Domain Tools starts offering a Domain Report in PDF format for an introductory price of $49. Domain Report is simple to use: enter a domain name and Domain Tools will gather nearly everything they know about …

Complainant Enterprise Holdings, Inc. submitted a Complaint to the National Arbitration Forum on December 10, 2012 for the domain name Enterprises.biz. Enterprise Holdings, Inc. from St. Louis, MO, USA, is the owner of the ENTERPRISE …

Sedo is auctioning off the domain portfolio from the DSB Bank N.V’s legacy. Sedo announced today that are going to be 3 special auctions that are taking place at Sedo in partnership with the bankruptcy …