What's the perfect thing to do after celebrating Thanksgiving with your family? Get right back to work and plan for the new year. And to get into the domaining mood right in the new year, what's better than a domain industry conference at a low price? Today's the last day to get your NamesCon tickets […] Related posts: BREAKING: New domain n...

As of December 3rd, 2013, DENIC, the operator of the .DE ccTLD will also introduce a Redemption Grace Period (RGP) that allows the original domain owner to recover their expired domain for up to 30 days after the expiry, the same as for gTLDs. See the full press release after the jump. Redemption Grace Period […] Related posts: eNom Increase...

Andee Hill, who recently left Escrow.com where she was Director of Business Development, has created a new licensed escrow company, Escrow Hill Limited with he backing of entrepreneur Gregg McNair.   ?When Andee told me she was thinking about forming her own escrow business I was immediately enthusiastic. I have a reputation of connecting some...

We will be live blogging the results of the inaugural?Heritage Auctions Domain Event in New York City today. There are no guarantees that this list is correct or complete as this are not official or officially approved results. Please note that all domains will occur a 15% bidder premium, which we will add the results […] Related posts: Comp...

As the 48th ICANN meeting is set to start in Buenos Aires, many of the attendees are stranded today in Montevideo, Uruguay due to an airport closure in Buenos Aires. An Austral Embraer ERJ-190 on behalf of Air Austral/Aerolineas Argentina coming from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), overrun the runway and only came to a halt […] Related posts: ICANN...

As already predicted by Andrew over at DNW: Demand Media Announces Key Executives and Name for Proposed Domain Services Company Company Will Lead Expansion of Generic Top Level Domains under Rightside Brand; Taryn Naidu Selected as Incoming CEO November 05, 2013 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Demand ...

Another group of registrars will be switching to the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with ICANN, allowing them to participate in selling new gTLDs. Web.com owns the original Domain registrar, Network Solutions and Register.com. The company also launched an expression of interest site for new gTLDs, promising a "Best price guarantee" an...

Over the past week, 705 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,3m. Go Daddy/Afternic's total domain sales for the week summed to ?$1,696,432. Over 47% of total sales at Sedo were the result of Buy Now listings. The top seller on Sedo's list, baristas.com for 45,000 USD was a SedoMLS sale […] Related posts:...

Endurance International Group Holdings (NASDAQ:EIGI) has started trading on the?NASDAQ stock exchange today. As announced before, the company is planning to use the funds raised to purchase DirectI for $110MM USD. The stock started trading at $11 USD per share today and is currently trading at $11.11. The company owns and operates many of the [R...

Frank Schilling's Uniregistry is set to expand and plans open new offices in Newport Beach, California in January 2014. The building, which was purchased by the company is located at 2161 San Joaquin Hills Road and will house the company's registry support, engineering and sales staff. Schilling described the location as follows in an email […...

Go Daddy and Afternic reports $1,625,205 USD in sales for the week from 10/14/13 ? 10/20/1. The top six reported Sales at Go Daddy / Afternic this week were: ?livid.com for $19,000 USD pbex.com for $12,000 USD cinehost.com for $9,950 USD ccsports.com for $7,500 USD purelights.com for $7,500 USD nowrinkles.com for $7,500 USD See the Related posts: ...

And here are the winners of this year's Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. awards, as the were announced by VinsDomains.com on Twitter live from the event. BANDIT BERKENS" GOODWILL AMBASSADOR AWARD Winner: Gregg McNair Nominees: Adam Dicker Alan Hack Barbara Neu Elliot Silver Merlin Kauffman Michael Cyger Nat Cohen Richard Lau Rick Schwartz (declined) Ron Jac...

I'm reporting live from TRAFFIC's auction. ?Results will be updated live . Please excuse any typos.   firesidechat.com $100 foodtogo.com pass item 104 – $125 bidder 356 artdecofurniture.com – pass peppermintvodka.com – $100 bidder 112 hairdressers.com – pass floridastonecrabs.com – pass freequalifiedleads.com R...

A new domain name conference, NamesCon, will?be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 13th to 15th, 2014. ?Well-known industry veteran, Richard Lau is the founder of the event and he has tapped Jodi Chamberlain from 32Events, to help coordinate.??Both Lau and Chamberlain are no strangers to domain events. ?Lau has been involved in organizing Rela...

As reported by TechCrunch, Go Daddy has acquired hosting company Media Temple, also know as (mt). Financial details of the acquisition, which did not include website builder Virb, which is being spun out, were not published. The two companies are going be operated separately. [TechCrunch, Press Release, Media Temple FAQ] Related posts: Strata PPX A...

According to a blog post by the Office 365 team, customers can now purchase their domains from Go Daddy directly through the product's interface. The domain will then directly be enabled for use with Office 365 by setting up the correct nameservers and DNS records at the time of registration Anybody got an Office 365 Related posts: Microsoft Aquir...

United Internet (UDIRF.PK)?increases its stake in Sedo to 96.05% and plans squeeze-out Montabaur, October 2, 2013.?United Internet today acquired the 4,461,379 shares in Sedo Holding AG [SDO:Xetra], Cologne, held by Sedo?s founders and raised its stake in the company to 96.05%. The shares in Sedo Holding AG were acquired by United Internet Ventures...

Housing.com and a Phone Number bought by Indian startup Housing.co.in for $1MM USD As reported by NextBigWhat, Indian Startup Housing.co.in has purchased the domain Housing.com for $500,000 USD and the national Indian phone number 03-333-333-333 for another $500,000 USD. Their old domain, housing.co.in now redirects to housing.com. The purchase of ...

So here's the official Press Release for the acquisition of Afternic and Smartname by Go Daddy from Namemedia. GoDaddy Acquires Afternic ? Primes Domain Aftermarket For New TLDs Move Also Delivers Improved Service, Selection & Speed to More Aftermarket Customers SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Sept. 19, 2013) ? GoDaddy, the world?s leading domain name provi...

Demand Media Welcomes Wayne MacLaurin as Senior Vice President of Technology for United TLD World-Class Registry Strengthens Technology Resources to Focus on New gTLDs Kirkland, Washington ? September 11, 2013 ?Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain services company, today is pleased to announce its recent hire of Wayne MacLaurin, who...

Archeo Launches Domains Marketplace, Providing Gateway to Premium Portfolio of More Than 200,000 Names ?SEATTLE? ? September 10, 2013 ? Archeo, Inc., a division of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced the launch of the Archeo Domains Marketplace (www.archeodomains.com), providing direct access for businesses, brokers and individuals to Arc...

Major Milestone Reached in New Domain Program Los Angeles, California?ICANN?s Generic Domains Division announced today the conclusion of the Initial Evaluation (IE) phase of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) program. More than 1,700 applications have now moved to the next steps in the program. ?This is an extraordinary landmark which demonst...

In an article that was published by?the Huffington Post Canada last week, the founder and CEO of ?RIWI Corporation talks about the importance of the browser URL bar and Direct Navigation. RIWI is a data analytics company Citing a number of different sources, the article concludes that Direct Navigation is a continuous traffic that also Related pos...

And it appears that the registry operators for new gTLDs have started the courting for registrars with some marketing efforts. DirectI's Radix registry has launched a photo contest for registrars to find the best pictures representing on of their 29 new gTLD applications. The twist? The photos are to be shot with a Polaroid camera Related posts: I...

As reported by The Next Web, Automattic, the company that runs WordPress has acquired Lean Domain Search. The founder of the site, Matt Mazur, will continue to work for WordPress.com working on domain name related features. Automattic became an ICANN accredited registrar in 2010, but is currently still selling domain names through a partner registr...

The Internet?Architecture?Board (IAB), which is a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) issued a statement today that it considers Dotless domains, such as the proposed "SEARCH" by Google harmful and will not work together with currently used procedures. As the statement explains: Unfortunately, dotless domains will not work as in...

As reported on twitter and Hacker News, .IO domains have stopped resolving and apparently new registrations are not going through either. .IO is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territory. The TLD is especially popular with startups. According to comments on the post, 5 of 7 nameservers are returning NXDOMAIN (=domain does not exist) Related...

Wednesday DNN ran an article about a purported hack of several domain name registrars by HTP (Hack the Planet). ?While HTP claimed that the hosting company Linode.com was the intended target, the group also claimed they were able to hack in to Melbourne IT, Name.com, Moniker and Xinnet and provided "evidence" of this on their Related posts: Hacker...

A story on Hacker News from earlier Tuesday? mentions that a group of hackers , Hack The Planet (HTP), was able to hack in to several domain name registrars late last year . The registrars were not ?specifically targeted, rather they were hacked in order to take down the hosting of another hacker's IRC channel. Related posts: Comcast.net Domain Hi...

As announced in a press release today, Good Sam, a provider of products for the RV and outdoor recreation consumer? purchased RV.com for an undisclosed sum. The domain name was owned by Dometic Group, another supplier for the RV and Marine Industries. The company is planning to develop the domain name into a new site Related posts: Strata Services...

Today two domain name auctions are ending – first the GreatDomains auction at Sedo then the Dotster Auction at SnapNames. Here are the domains and their current (at the time of this post) bids at Sedo ends in less than 3 hours:   Here are the domains and their current (at the time of this Related posts: Sedo's Monthly GreatDomains Aucti...

As announced on his personal Blog, Bill Sweetman is leaving his job Vice President, Domain Portfolio at Tucows as well as General Manager of YummyNames, on April 26, 2013. He joined Tucows in 2007 and is now planning to launch a "boutique domain name consulting firm later this quarter". Bill writes about his change: Over Related posts: Van Gelder ...

After a brief hiatus, Jamie Zoch at Dotweekly.com has returned to blogging. ?Jamie lost all of DotWeekly.com in a hosting move and decided to take some time off . Jamie always had good content and interesting insights, so?I'm glad to see him back at it. ?Frankly, domain blogging seems to be a sea of copycatting Related posts: Tucows Will Use After...

While a large part of the domain industry gathers at the 46th ICANN meeting in Beijing this week, big news are being made in the country of Mali in Africa. As reported by The Guardian, .ML domains will be available for free in July 2013. The registry will be operated by Freedom Registry, the same Related posts: Free Speech Coalition Announces Plan...

As reported by a number of sources, Melbourne IT (ASX:MLB) is selling it's Digital Brand Management (DBS) to Corporation Services Company (CSC) for?$152.5 million AUD. Melbourne IT had originally purchased the Digital Brand Management unit from VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for $50MM USD in 2008?and merged it with their existing corporate clients. Relate...

Frank Schilling's new gTLD play Uniregistry becomes ICANN accredited and launches their retail registrar, Uniregistrar. Uniregistrar completed their accreditation earlier this month. The name and site clearly identifies it as being associated with Frank Schilling's Uniregistry that is applying for 54 new gTLDs. The new site states: Uniregistrar is ...

According to Larry Fischer at DirectNavigation.com, a well known domain space veteran has passed away. Many of us know Igal Lichtman as a very successful business man and domain name investor. ?In the domain space many may remember him from forums and from his whois where he left his mark as Mrs. Jello. If you'd Related posts: Fox news on domains ...

ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) exclusively used for online adult entertainment, announces today that IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg, has secured an additional 25 Premium Domains in a deal worth $185,000.? This is the second significant order from IRIS who previously acquired $650,000 of premium names back in...

Over the past week, 800 transactions took place on Sedo?s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.57m. Over 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: apuestas.com (bets in Spanish) at 165,000 EUR, almost 222,000 USD Top ccTLD: veterinar.se? (Veterinary in Spanish) at 8,000 EUR Relat...

As tweeted by George Kirikos, the court granted ICANN's motion to dismiss Image Online Design's (IOD) .WEB lawsuit. ICANN posted the "Order Granting ICANN's Motion to Dismiss Complaint" (PDF) today on their site. IOD had applied to operate the .WEB gTLD in 2000, but ICANN did not select the TLD for the phase at the Related posts: Kentucky Circuit ...

We are blogging the auction live today at Webfest Global 2013 in Santa Monica, CA. Related posts: DOMAINfest global becomes WebFest Global, opens registration for 2013 DomainFest Global Low/Now Reserve Live Auction Results Seven Hours to register for Webfest Global at the Early Bird rate DOMAINfest Global 2011 Live Auction Results DomainFest Global...

Sedo is brokering Internet Real Estate Group's Chocolate.com and the web business. The site is a marketplace for fine chocolates that lists 250 vendors and their over 5,000 products. ?The Chocolate.com domain name and address is one of the most sought after plots of virtual real estate on the Internet,? said Andrew Miller, Managing Director Relate...

In the case of the non-deletion of publication.com last Friday, DNN has now obtained a copy of the court order that prevented the deletion and you can see it here (PDF). Please note that this is the unsigned version of the restraining order as it was currently published by the court, but DNN does have Related posts: Publication.com deletion stoppe...

Many domain investors were wondering yesterday why Publication.com was renewed during the deletion process. VeriSign (VRSN) apparently received a court order forbidding them to delete the domain. Here is an official statement from VeriSign that we received a few minutes ago: The status of publication.com?was changed as the result of a court order. ...

The name publication.com was scheduled to be deleted today and had a large number of interest with the various backorder platforms – for example over 170 bidders at Namejet and pre-bids over $3,000. The drop just completed, yet the name was not deleted. Here is the whois as it was displayed earlier today: Domain Name: Related posts: OneClick...

Demand Media just announced this morning that the are acquiring the retail registrar name.com. name.com was founded by Bill Mushkin in 2003. Demand Media also owns eNom and BulkRegistrar.com and is an active player in the new gTLD space. The acquisition will increase their reach into direct domain sales. Santa Monica, California ? January 7, Relat...