Domain News
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ICANN says higher domain prices may be in the public interest
ICANN is trying to get an arbitration case covering the removal of price caps in .org, .biz and .info thrown…
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.org price caps: ICANN chair denies “secret” meetings
ICANN chair Maarten Botterman has denied that the board of directors approved the removal of price caps in .org, .biz…
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Using a three letter .com domain for an unsavory business practice
I’m surprised someone would use a three letter .com domain to do this. This week I received a snail-mail notice…
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Nigeria slashes prices to compete with .com
Nigerian ccTLD registry NiRA has lopped about 40% off the price of .ng domain names, bringing them down to a…
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.au names available today
Australians are able to register domain names directly under .au for the first time today, after ccTLD registry auDA liberalized…
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GoDaddy acquires DNAcademy
Company hopes to teach more people about domain name investing. Michael Cyger has sold DNAcademy to GoDaddy and joined the…
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Is this scam DNS abuse?
Does a sophisticated scam that includes using a domain name count as DNS abuse? Yesterday, I wrote about how data…
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New end user domain sales up to $50,000
A University, an NFT project and a grocer bought domain names. Over the past week, Sedo’s top public sale was…
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Mauritius challenges UK rights over Indian Ocean domain name
The Guardian published an article on .io and how the government of Mauritius wants control of .io. I first wrote…
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Exports.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Exports.com led the way at $60,000. Algo.xyz was second at $50,000 and…
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Google to launch a shopping-themed gTLD next week
Google is dipping into its bag of dormant gTLDs again, planning to start selling a shopping-themed string next week, apparently…
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Another DNSSEC screw-up takes down thousands of .au domains
Australia’s ccTLD has become the latest to see a widespread outage that appears to be the result of a DNSSEC…
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XYZ bought most of Uniregistry’s TLDs
XYZ.com has emerged as the winning bidder for 10 of the 17 new gTLDs that UNR, formerly Uniregistry, auctioned off…
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Here is why you don’t lay out your plans for a new website to the whole world
I have always been of the mindset that you don’t give away your gameplan for a new business to the…
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What to make of this strange trend in new domain regs?
Are people getting the shortest domain possible when they register in a new gTLD? Every month uber-registry Donuts publishes data…