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Namecheap announced in December last year that they will be using their direct ICANN registrar accreditation for all new domain registrations, renewals and transfers. Today they start transferring all existing Namecheap-managed domain registrations from Enom’s sponsorship …

NamesCon is just 3 weeks away and the conference is now offering 5 free tickets to readers of OnlineDomain.com. NamesCon Global 2018 will be held in Las Vegas in January 28-31, 2018. The give away …

Namejet released it’s December 2017 domain name auctions report that includes some 3 and 4 letter .com domains and many 1-word domains. Namejet sold 141 (96 domains in November) domains in December for a total of $859,043 …

We are almost 4 years into the New gTLD program and domain name registrations have fallen below the 20 million mark. These are the domain name registrations that according to NameStat.org are in the zone …

Undeveloped.com launched a new way to setup “brand for sale” domain name landing pages. “To help your buyers visualize better which brand they’re acquiring and why the price for quality names is justified, we’ve launched …

DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. DMARC is a way to make it easier for email senders and receivers to determine whether or …

Mike Berkens domain name investor and blogger at TheDomains.com has filed a lawsuit against Twitter after his Twitter account @TheDomains was hacked on the 22nd of December, 2017. Mike Berkens is using a temporary Twitter …

November was a slower month than October but still had some important articles. The most popular articles were about “your best domains”, GoDaddy, Rick Schwartz, Mark Cuban, Mike Mann, Afternic and some other subjects. About …

Twice in the past month I had 2 buyers change the terms of the domain name transaction after we had agreed and I had setup the escrow transaction. In these 2 cases both changed their …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that the third quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 330.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations as …

Afilias Australia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias plc, has been appointed to provide registry services for the .au domain from 1 July 2018 as part of auDA’s Registry Transformation Project. Afilias was one …

GoDaddy will just cancel your domain name listing from GoDaddy Auctions if it gets an offer from an “unverified” buyer! An unverified buyer is a actually what they call a deadbeat buyer. Someone that makes …

Mike Mann reported selling 9 domain names in November for a total of $171,164. Prices started at $2,888 and went up to $39,000. Mike made the following tweet on November 13: “Sold 15 premium .Com …

GoDaddy changed their renewal/expiry domain name policy and owners now have 30 days after the expiration date to renew their domains. At that time the domain name is already in an expired domain name auction …