Africa Registry, part of the CentralNic Group, is a leading provider of domain names for Africa since 2005, is delighted to announce a new programme from its gateway service RRPproxy to empower domain name vendors, registrars and resellers in Africa to sell domains using over 1,000 TLDs, and to benefit from a $50 free credit […]

Crypto domains have been trending all year long and with that Sedo is running an exclusive Crypto Domain Names Auction from 13 to 20 September. This event will also promoted during our attendance at the annual MERGE Domain Conference, delivering extra reach and exposure for your names to highly sought after domain investors and industry […]

As Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect, Escrow.com has reported the lowest volume of quarterly domain name sales in the few years GGRG has been publishing their Liquid Domains Market Overview. The inception of the GDPR last May brought significant changes to the domain name registration data collected, or Whois. For the first […]

Ireland’s ccTLD hit the quarter million domain name registrations mark last week as .ie has been on a mini boom since a relaxation in eligibility rules in March. Today there are 254,400 .ie domain names registered, and 34,000 have been registered this year. The magical domain name chosen as the 250,000th was for a leading […]

There are currently around 335 million domain names registered around the world, but many domain names are deleted or expired and some are re-registered. So DomainTools has announced they’ve seen their 1 billionth unique domain name in the 17 years they’ve existed. But how many domain names that have come and gone, nobody knows. DomainTools […]

Minds + Machines (MMX) has launched what they’re describing as the first open top level domain to combine Ethereum blockchain innovation and security with ease-of-use for today’s world, with a Sunrise period commencing today. The .luxe standard that “lets you exchange easily” smart contracts, crypto and other blockchained products. With a .luxe domain name, there’s […]

ICANN announced Friday they had lost another round in their battle to get EPAG, a subsidiary of Tucows, to enforce their “temporary specification” on the collection of domain name registrant data. For the third time the German courts have ruled against ICANN. This time the Appellate Court determined that it would not issue an injunction […]

Verisign has launched a phased rollout of the קום. new gTLD with a Sunrise period having commenced on 30 July and running through until 4 September. The registry operator for .com and .net has struggled to make an impact with the first 3 of their IDN gTLDs that launched into General Availability 2 years ago […]

Brief Overview Purpose: Recommendations for managing Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) variant labels for top level domains (TLDs) have been developed by ICANN organization. The relevant materials along with the recommendations are being published to seek community feedback for finalizing them. Current Status: The community has identified a need for IDN variant TLDs; however, the ICANN […]

The domain name ice.com sold for $3.5 million to Intercontinental Exchange, who currently use theice.com as their home online and where ice.com is currently redirecting. According to the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales of all time, a chart that has been compiled since 2003, it would be the 14th biggest sale ever […]