OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

December was a slower month but still had some important articles. The most popular articles were about Mike Mann moving his domains to GoDaddy, brokers, the GoDaddy valuation tool, DropCatch, Domaining.com and some other subjects. …

Escrow.com announced hitting many milestones in 2017. Here is the announcement from Jackson Elsegood, the Escrow.com General Manager: Global Support & Operations To continuously support its fast-growing user base, Escrow.com continues to hire the world?s …

Efty is putting together an ambitious development roadmap in 2018. Here is what Efty announced today: SSL secured For-Sale landing pages: If you are subscribed to our Growth or Profesional plan you can now redirect buyers …

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) is back to power Danica Patrick’s racing finale with primary sponsorships in both the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500. The two marquee auto races, being dubbed the “Danica Double,” mark an …

Topcoin conversion and sale round started yesterday Tuesday 1/16/18. Topcoin is distributing 1 billion tokens in a Token Distribution Event (“TDE”) scheduled to run from December 1st, 2017 until March 1st of 2018. Existing Topcoin …

Another bad ICANN decision is out that will protect some privileged IGOs and INGOs and the “beloved” International Olympic Committee (IOC). Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement (RCRC), the only organization that might have warranted some additional …

Mike Mann announced on social media that he sold the domain name CryptoWorld.com for $195k. It seems that the domain was sold at Sedo and the exact price was $194,888. Mike bought the domain name …

GoDaddy has been blocking whois access at Port 43 for years… It returns the date related information of each domain name, nameserver info and the registrant name. It has been blocking address, telephone and email …

Radix published its premium domains report for the 2nd half of 2017. This report gives a full lowdown on all premium sales Radix TLDs for the period 1st July to 31st Dec 2017. Radix’s premium names are available …

.NYC celebrated its 3rd year anniversary, so they shared a few highlights to showcase how New Yorkers have helped to build and grow the .nyc domain. The .nyc domain extension consistently ranks in the top …

CentralNic announced that on 8th January 2018 it completed the purchase of a number of portfolios of premium domain names with .com as their suffix, for an aggregate consideration of £2.5 million, satisfied from the …

Gauss Research Laboratories, the .PR ccTLD manager, announced that it has selected Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, to provide technical services to support Puerto Rico’s country code top level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet, …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of December 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. Crypto related keywords dominate the list like last …

DNC Holdings, dba Directnic.com acquired Fabulous.com back in November. Mike Robertson is coming back to Fabulous.com after being for over 3 years with Directnic. He was for 9 years at Fabulous before joining Directnic.com Fabulous.com …