It’s finally the weekend! There’s a new video from the creative team of Name.com, a registrar known for its unconventional and humorous approach to the very serious business of domaining. Titled, “Sexy new domains: Pug“, the 36 second long clip explores the possibilities of what can be sexy, with a new .Sexy domain. Enjoy! [...] Continue reading →

Listed below are updates to the top 10 domain sales from a year ago this week, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. GayForum.de for $45,500 The owner of the .com acquired the .de. The .com is developed as you would expect, and has an Alexa rank near 650,000. 2. SS.tv for $30,000 [...] Continue reading →

So there’s a website name you want to buy a domain for, or an idea you have for a company you want to start. The web hosting purchase for the idea and domain name usually requires an associated domain name for the enterprise. Coming up with these for other names and keywords can be easy. [...] Continue reading →

The domain name IPO.us didn’t fare too well over at NameJet, in a no reserve auction, despite its 12 years of age and strong letter appeal. The IPO acronym stands for Initial Public Offering; the initial availability of a company’s stock to the stock market. After receiving 43 bids by 29 bidders, the results of [...] Continue reading →

Vint Cerf, Nii Quaynor, Beth Noveck and Paul Mockapetris invite you to join them on Tuesday, 11 March at 15:00-16:30 UTC (time converter: tinyurl.com/l458x7v) for an overview of the draft recommendations and report they respectively released earlier this month for public comment: ICANN‘s Role in the Internet Governance Ecosystem [...] Continue reading →

Below are the key Contracting statistics, as of 28 February 2014: 1091 applicants have been invited to Contracting 479 applicants have responded to their Contracting Information Request invitation 337 contracts have been sent out for signature 290 Registry Agreements have been signed All signed Registry Agreements can be viewed here: [...] Continue reading →

According to an article just posted by the NYpost.com, A “”Canarsie cybersquatter who registered domain names related to Donald Trump and used them to skewer the real estate magnate must pay him $32,000 in damages, a Brooklyn judge ruled”"J. Taikwok Yung first drew Trump’s rage in 2007 when he registered four websites — trumpindia.com, trumpbeijing.com, trumpabudhabi.com [...] Continue reading →