OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

Kevin Murphy wrote a blog post “ICA rallies the troops to defeat .org price hikes. It won’t work” that mentioned a few opinions that I don’t agree with. Kevin said that “the retail price of …

Namecheap is the first registrar that I see opposing the removal of price caps on several legacy top level domains such as .org, .info and .biz. (Also don’t forget .asia.) If you see any other …

The ICA has created an easy-to-use Form for you to submit your objections to ICANN regarding its proposed removal of all price caps on several domain name extensions. Although the form focuses on .org you …

Efty announced it has completed the acquisition of competitor DomaHub Domains LLC. DomaHub is domain name management software maker. DomaHub was founded in 2016 by Wonmin Lee and Wonkyu Lee as a platform that allowed users to rent …

Mike Mann reported selling 7 domain names in March for a total of $122,700. Prices started at $7,800 and went up to $40,000. Mike Mann sold 7 .com domains. The average reported domain sales price …

DotMusic Limited managed to win the exclusive rights to the .music extension and domain names outbidding 2 giants: Google and Amazon. There were originally 8 competitive applications in contention. The contention was resolved a few …

Rick Schwartz revealed on Twitter some of his domain name purchase prices from the 1990’s. He started by saying that domain name acquisition cost has nothing to do with sales price, something that I completely …

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) is organizing a public webcast which will highlight the ICA’s policy positions and interests. The webcast is scheduled for April 12 at 1 PM EDT. Registration is now open. Among the topics ICA will …

So GoDaddy supposedly fixed the problem where domains would get renewed or transferred out after a GoDaddy auction had ended and paid for. But today I was going through my bank statement from March and …

Is blockchain back? Some people that have started registering loads of blockchain domains seem to believe it. I know that it was never gone but the big hype has subsided. The top 10 trending keywords …

Efty introduces 3 new for-sale landing templates: Fresku, Nubia & Nobo. Efty has found over the past 4+ years that “mobile-first, stunning graphics, crisp typography, bold call-to-action buttons and a customizable message focused on benefits …

ICANN is now proposing lifting price cap provisions for .biz domains too. This came shortly after the proposals to lift price caps for .org and .info domains. Of course Neustar, the biz registry, would sure …

VPN.com announced today that Darryl Lopes has been brought on as a Senior Domain Broker. Before coming to VPN.com, Lopes spent four and a half years as a Domain Broker at Uniregstry and one year …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2018. It seems that 2018 was not really a good year for MMX as the acquisition of ICM for …