OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

This week, 1076 transactions (1055 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.60 million ($1.78 last week). Only 241 domains (300 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other domains …

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) website at mit.edu was hacked today by hacker group LulzSec in response to the death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was being prosecuted with the cooperation of M.I.T for illegall downloading …

According to new rules in Belarus, .by domain names, which registration has expired, are put up for a charity auction. The owner of the domain name gets 30 days to renew the registration. If the …

Sedo added today another Asian registrar Net-Chinese to its SedoMLS Premium Network after adding registrar 66.cn last week. Net-Chinese is based in Taiwan and also has offices in the United Kingdom. Net-Chinese was accredited by …

Last week ICANN send notices of breach to 10 accredited registrars because they were in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). One of the …

Sedo announced today that it is now allowing it’s users to set a Minimum Offer when adding new domain names into their system. This way you don’t have to make 2 steps in order to …

The domain name Torrents.com was sold today for 84,700 EUR at Sedo. The owner was a Spanish company that had registered the domain name in 1998. The company is named Industrias Torents S.A. and is …

The owner of Glasgow.com lost the domain name Glasgow-2014.com, that was registered in 2006, under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy at WIPO. The Complainant was Glasgow 2014 Limited that is organizing and operating …

Today I got an an email from the registrar NamesBeyond.com with the subject “WELCOME TO NAMESBEYOND!”. NamesBeyond is a North American registrar, and has been accredited by ICANN since 2001. All affected domain names from …

On Monday DnJournal reported that NoktaDomains has started offering their inventory of domain names for leasing. Today I got their first newsletter featuring some of their domain names with leasing prices that seem to be …