Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to create a personalized domain name suggestion tool using GoDaddy’s API. It’s been a while since my last tutorial spotlighting the use of GoDaddy’s API to retrieve a list of domains associated with your GoDaddy account. Today’s tutorial aims to help create a simple tool that returns available [...] Continue reading →

More than 15 UK registrars are angry with Nominet’s proposed .uk right of registration (ROR) release process planned for 1st July – 5th July 2019. Over 3 million remaining .uk rights are set to be released over the coming few weeks and so far and the registrars think the whole process is unfair. .uk Rights [...] Continue reading →

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into being on 25 May 2018. For gTLDs ICANN still hasn’t developed a permanent policy on how to deal with it. For ccTLDs it was somewhat simpler. The lawyers at Austria’s ccTLD manager, nic.at, have given their verdict in a [...] Continue reading →

There weren’t any six-figure sales for the week ending 5 May on Domain Name Journal’s chart of top reported sales, but 9j.com took out the top spot in a $60,400 sale brokered by SnapNames followed by heir.com ($55,000 through BQDN) and centric.com ($46,000 through Sedo). [...] Continue reading →

I’m headed to go climb Mt. Baker with my daughter in a few weeks and there has been some news recently about all the people dying on Mt. Everest.  In no way am I comparing little Baker to Everest but I can give you an inside opinion from someone that considers endurance endeavors entertaining. [...] Continue reading →

Chinese regulators have approved .icu for sale and use in China, according to the registry. ShortDot COO Kevin Kopas told DI today that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has approved its year-old gTLD for mainland use. The company plans to launch .icu there formally June 12, he said. Kopas also said that .icu [...] Continue reading →

ICANN is seeking expressions of interest for leadership roles in the 2020 Nominating Committee (NomCom) – that of the 2020 NomCom Chair and Chair-Elect. In September 2018, the ICANN Board appointed J. Damon Aschraft as the 2019 NomCom Chair and Cheryl Ann [...] Continue reading →