Today marks the first day of DOMAINfest Hollywood and I can tell you that just about every domain name investor and startup influencer in the LA-area has converged on the Loews Hotel for what looks to be a record-breaking show. I think DOMAINfest has always done an exceptional job picking keynote speakers and this [...] Continue reading →

Here are today’s top picks for .Pro auctions at SnapNames: INTEREST.PRO BUCKS.PRO EARNING.PRO PAYCHECK.PRO BITS.PRO ASSETS.PRO INSIDER.PRO LICENSING.PRO To see all of the SnapNames auctions, visit: .Pro’s Auction page. [...] Continue reading →

Donuts has won the .place new gTLD contention set after paying off rival applicant 1589757 Alberta Ltd. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, was another “cut and choose” affair, similar to deals made with Tucows last August, in which the Canadian company named its price to withdraw and Donuts chose to pay it rather than [...] Continue reading →

English.club sells for $17,500. The .Club domain name enters landrush tomorrow, and already the domain name is showing solid early results. Point in fact: English.club sold for $17,500. Given the huge supply of new TLDs hitting the market, solid keywords are selling for a fraction of what the matching .com domain would sell for. So [...] Continue reading →

Conference sets ambitious attendance goal…and it might hit it. The inaugural NamesCon domain name conference happened just two months ago, but organizers are already planning a repeat in 2015. The event will take place Jan 11-14, 2015 at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. It will include an additional day of conference programming and networking. [...] Continue reading →

Internetworld.de, interviewed Dirk Krischenowski of .Berlin who blasted ICANN and the performance of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) The article was published in German and we used Google translate. Dirk chatted with the German publication about the recently completed Sunrise period for .Berlin, which is now in available to be registered. In the [...] Continue reading →

Radix no longer plans to use ARI Registry Services for any of its new gTLDs, I’ve learned. The company has already publicly revealed that CentralNic is to be its back-end registry services provider for .space, .host, .website and .press, but multiple reliable sources say the deal extends to its other 23 applications too. I gather [...] Continue reading →