According to west.cn the domain name i.vip sold for ¥700,000 (about $100,667) in an auction that ended yesterday. The sale came just days after the .vip extension got approval by the Chinese government. The domain i.vip …

CentralNic plc, (AIM:CNIC), announced today that it has entered into its largest ever premium domain name sale agreement under which it will receive consideration of US$ 4.5 million. The press release does not mention the …

.CLUB Domains announced today that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has granted a license to .CLUB’s Beijing based wholly foreign-owned entity (WFOE) company, making it among the very first foreign registries of a …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that it has today received official approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) of the People’s Republic of China for MMX’s dot VIP top-level domain. …

These are some of the domain name deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2016. You can save money on domain registrations mainly but there are some transfer coupons in here as well. Mainly the …

Cnobin, a Hong Kong based registrar, announced that it has stopped offering .TOP domain name registrations effective immediately. At first this seemed strange for a Hong Kong registrar as Chinese registrants hold almost 80% of …

RightOfTheDot and NameJet have partnered to launch the live domain name auction that will be held at NamesCon 2017 on January 23rd from 3 PM – 6 PM PST in conjunction with the online auction on …

I received today a new spam/scam email that I personally haven’t seen before. The email directed to one of my domains is obviously targeting domain name owners that have active websites and use email with …

Google is creating a new domain name registry back-end system called Nomulus. A registry back-end system performs the critical functions that are necessary for a domain name registry to fulfill its technical obligations in running …

I went to GoDaddy to check the price of Sex.Shop. (.Shop launched getting more than 50,000 registrations.) I immediately saw that the price for Sex.shop was $139,999.99 per year but then I saw that many …

Nominet, the .uk registry, published a New gTLD domain name map that is designed like the London Underground map. The map shows the Top 250 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as at the 11th July …

In the past few days two of the major New gTLD registries have reported three 6-figure domain name sales. Many people are wondering what the renewal prices for these domains will be. Rightside sold the domains Sex.Live …

There were 149 New gTLD domain name sales added in Sold.Domains database this week. Sold.Domains lists all public New gTLD sales and has a search function to find sales by extension or keyword. 141 of …

Last month CentralNic announced in an email that it will be deleting several sub-domains (and websites) from 8 of their domains like .GB.COM and .NO.COM. CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) sent out this chilling email informing several …