Domain Name News

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

• .Club Raising More Money, Valued at $25.4 Million
• Union Bank Loses Cases Against Gripe Websites
• .Baby and .MLS Fetch Over $3 Million Each
• Human Glitch Lets Hackers Into ICANN
• NamesCon Acquires DomainFest & Will Be Part of Namescon 2015 Las Vegas
• And much more!

DomainSherpa December 19, 2014 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:
New Poll Says 25% Think Organic Co. Should Have .Organic Domain: But Only 396 Have Been Registered
• Tucows Relaunches Realnames.com (Blast From the Past) as Email Service
• First Live Dot-brand, CITIC Group, Switches BACK to .com
• .CEO Smartens Up in New Promo Video
• Symantec Will Verify .Bank & .Insurance Generic Top-level Domains
• CentralNic Unloads $2.5M Worth of Premium Domains
• NetworkWorld: Companies are movin’ on up to .com domain names
• QNB.com Domain Name Sells for $1 Million
• And much more!

DomainSherpa December 12, 2014 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:
Researchers Study The “Dark Side of Domain Parking”
• Domain Holdings Joins The ICA As a Silver Member
• .LGBT Goes Into Sunrise On January 5th
• Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring Closing Bell at Nasdaq Tomorrow
• ICANN Releases All Digit/Digit, Letter/Digit…
• Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four
• Donuts Wins .School Beating Minds + Machines, Fegistry & Uniregistry
• Donuts Wins .Golf Beating Famous…
• Donuts Beats Famous Four Media to The New gTLD .football
• Minds + Machines Raises $4.4 Million Losing Latest gTLD Auctions
• Verisign: There are Now 280…
• Community Proposes Way to Replace US Oversight of ICANN
• Richemont Pulls Two Dot-brand Bids
• ICANN Opens Comment Period for…
• Cyber Monday Propels .rocks to 17% Daily Gain
• .Auction Sunrise Winds Up With…
• Fédération Internationale de Basketball Wins .basketball
• Frank Schilling Wins UDRP On…
• Lawsuit Alleges 3 Number Domain Names Stolen
• “Trademark King” Wants Apple.com, Youtube.com,…The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.
• And much more!

DomainSherpa December 5, 2014 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:
Frank Schilling Changes Strategy for .Click Launch
• Rightside Shares Hit New Low
• GoDaddy is Looking for a $4.5 Billion Dollar Valuation in Its IPO Rolling Out Next Year
• Google Beaten to .Dot for a Paltry $700k
• “Cyberflight” Rules Coming to UDRP Next July
• TLD Registry Wins Best Marketing Award at China New gTLD Roadshow
• “Second Most Marketable Athlete in The World” to Use a .Club Domain
• $10 Million to Move to a Dot-brand? Quebec Says “Non”
• And much more!

DomainSherpa November 21, 2014 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:
• Amazon.com Wins .Book, .Buy and .Pay Top Level Domain Name Battles
• Web.com Sued for Telemarketing Calls
• Will Web.com’s Poor Earnings Report Hurt GoDaddy’s IPO?
• Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Files Federal Lawsuit Over The Domain SDT.com
• Judge Blocks Seizure of Iran’s ccTLD
• Minds+Machines & Hexonet Mistakenly Priced Premium Domains, Renewals As High As $5,400
• And much more!

DomainSherpa November 14, 2014 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:
• Will Web.com Hurt GoDaddy’s IPO?
• New gTLDs Steal $5 Million From Web.com’s Top Line
• Moniker Lost Just 18,057 .com Domains to Transfers in July
• Why Endurance Bought BuyDomains for up to $77MM and Why The Price Might Make Sense
• GoDaddy Opens European Customer Care Centre
• .NYC Surpasses .London in Domain Registrations & is The Fastest Growing Extension
• The 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Award Winners Are…

• And much more!

DomainSherpa November 7, 2014 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:
• .ooo Owner Infinibeam Isn’t Just Crazy, It’s a Misinformation Machine
• New gTLDs Top 3 Million
• Domain Holdings Sold Nearly $10 Million in Domain Names Last Quarter
• .Biz Domain Name Registrations Fall Under 2.5 Million
• ICANN Terminates Deadbeat Registrar; May Cancel Morocco Meeting Over Ebola Fear
• And much more!

DomainSherpa October 31, 2014 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:
• ICANN: 36,732 Complaints Filed Against Registrars & 853 Complaints Against Registries
• .ooo Domain Name Takes Over…
• .Club Leads All New gTLD’s in Number of Sites in Alexa Top 1 Million
• Gigaom: The Latest New York City “Land Rush” is Already Turning Into a Party for Cyber-squatters
• DNpric.es: There Have Been Over $1 Million in New gTLD Domain Name Sales
• $1.25 Million Domain Name Photo.com Hit With UDRP
• Radix Buys .Tech From Dot Tech LLC and Plans a Q1 2015 Launch
• And much more!

DomainSherpa October 17, 2014 0

Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:
Radix Buys .Tech From Dot Tech
• New gTLD 1st Day Registrations: .NYC 26,853, .City 4,094, .Lawyer 3,240, .Attorney 2,156, .Desi 320
• Big Apple’s New .NYC Domain Has Strong Showing
• See GoDaddy’s Clever .NYC Barge Ad
• Moniker’s Transition-related Security Holes Come to Light
• Uniregistry Wins .Cars gTLD
• And much more!

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DomainSherpa October 10, 2014 0