Domain Name News

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As of December 31
• Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLDs to Lose 6x The Number of Registrations?
• Survey: .club and .web Domain Names are Favorites
• Wall Street Journal Covers Domain Name Theft
• Rightside to Release 20,000 Two-character Domains
• Donuts Wins .taxi, Beating Famous Four, to Go With .cab & .limo
• How Colin Campbell (Dot Club) Raised $7million in 30 Days
• Uniregistry Now Supports Premium New gTLD Domain Registrations/Transfers
• And more!

DomainSherpa March 13, 2015 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• Domain Sales Data Website Similarsales.com Launches, Shows Domain Flips and Flops
• Neustar Set to Lose Contract That Provides Half Its Revenue
• More Security Issues Hit ICANN Site
• GoDaddy’s Latest Patent Applications
• Uniregistry Now Supports Premium New gTLD Domain Registrations/Transfers
• Google Domains Joins Afternic
• And more!

DomainSherpa March 6, 2015 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• Google Pays $25 Million for .App Top Level Domain
• Minds + Machines Patent App for Using Domain Names As Currency
• Google: Make Your Website Mobile Friendly By April 21…or Suffer
• ICANN Ditches Plan to Give Governments More Power
• Verisign Sues .XYZ and Negari for “False Advertising”
• Namescon Sets Dates and Early Bird Special of $199 for 2016 Show (GET IT TODAY)
• And more!

DomainSherpa February 27, 2015 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• Rightside Reports 4Q Revenue Up 13.5%: Makes Almost $8 Million On Losing New gTLD Apps
• European Start Up Accelerator Reveals Latest Startups and a Lot of Them Use The .io Extension
• L’oréal Wins New gTLD .Beauty Beating Donuts & Minds + Machines/Adding to Its Huge Vertical
• .Top Domain Apparently Using Spam to Get to The Top
• Renewals at 55% As First New gTLD Junk Drop Begins
• And more!

DomainSherpa February 20, 2015 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• Texas Rangers Get Rangers.com for $375k, MLB Now Missing Just 3 Team Names
• Jeb Bush’s Domain Name Drama
• ICANN CEO Chehade Declines to Backtrack On Domain “Hogging” Comments
• ICA Responds to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé’s “Hogging” Remarks
• Web Design Company Sues GoDaddy Over “It’s Go Time” Slogan
• And more!

DomainSherpa February 13, 2015 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• With Cayman Deal, Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Now Runs ccTLDs Too
• GoDaddy Wants to Patent Domain Suggestions Based On Geography, Business Type
• Donuts: 1.2 Million Domain Registrations Across 150 Extensions
• Vodafone Sells 360.com to 360.cn for $17MM; The 49th Most Visited Site On The Internet
• Rick Schwartz Sells Porno.com for $8,888,888: The 4th Highest Reported Domain Sale of All Time
• And more!

DomainSherpa February 6, 2015 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• Leadpages.net is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
• Philadelphia’s City Council’s Domain Name War is On
• .Club Sells $200,000 Domain for $10.99
• GoDaddy to Change Controversial Super Bowl Commercial
• Two Legit Registrars (including Above.com) Held to Account for Lack of Abuse Tracking
• And more!

DomainSherpa January 30, 2015 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• Verisign Q3 2014 Report: 284 Million Domain Names With 6.8% Growth, 130 Million .com & .net
• .Gay is Gay Enough After All? ICANN Overturns Community Panel Decision
• Forbes: Why, Even After a Year, There’s Still No Land Grab for New Internet Domains
• Domain Hijacking Bug Found in Go Daddy
• “The Donald” Goes After The Domain Trumpcard.com in a UDRP
• And more!

DomainSherpa January 23, 2015 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.

• GoDaddy Auctions Implements Bidder Verification
• Andrew Rosenser of Media Options Launches Ganjapreneur.com
• Report: There are Now 286.7 Million Registered Domain Names (1.5% Growth)
• Domain Name Registry Afilias Dumps Planned IPO
• Frank Schilling Laughing As Uniregistry Beats Google to .lol
• And more!

DomainSherpa January 9, 2015 0