A new Reuters article focused on a survey which concluded that most businesses don’t know about new gTLDs. The research, which only surveyed 100 business, and was sponsored by registrar Gandi.net doesn’t really lend itself to a whole lot of credibility.  The firm of Future Laboratory co...

Dan Warner, one of the most public faces of Dark Blue Sea has left  his position as COO of DBS (parent company of Fabulous.com).  Warner had been with DBS  for over 7 years. Warner, probably best known for his in-depth data analysis and his leadership role at Fabulous.com, has been a featured spe...

Frank Michlick, co-editor of DNN.com is across the pond in Amsterdam and has been reporting via Twitter as the information rolls in live at the TRAFFIC ccTLD show in Amsterdam. Drop us a note in the comments section if you are at the show and want to meet Frank or message @fmichlick.  We’ll a...

As we reported previously, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer let more than 50 of their .org domain names expire in March 2009. The names were brought to DNN’s attention as they appeared on a SnapNames auction list . After expiring several of the domains appear to have been registered by SnapNames an...

Court documents denying a motion to dismiss(pdf), reveal that hosting company Solid Host, NL is suing domain name registration company NameCheap.com over cybersquatting claims for a domain name registered under the NameCheap whois privacy services WhoisGuard. Solid Host’s domain name had repor...

Rick Latona cleared nearly $375,000 in sales at TRAFFIC last week, but there are still more domain names up for auction in the extended auction that closes today. Of the over 400 domains, several of the names have already met their reserves and will be selling (see below). The most notable of these ...

Mike at TheDomains.com pointed out an article on TechCrunch about Tweexchnage.com a site where users can buy and sell Twitter usernames.  In December, we wrote several articles about these emerging issues surrounding social media site usernames and more specifically how Twitter user names are becom...

The domain name Ad.com sold at the TRAFFIC auction tonight for $1.4 Million. The winning bidder seen on the video feed and reported by people at the show was Divyank Turakhia of Directi.com. (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Auction Real Estate Domain Listings Portfolio The World’s Largest Known Real E...

Network Solutions just emailed notices regarding a class action settlment that came about from the NSI front running domains incident back in January 2008.   The email which can be seen after the jump details a class action lawsuit settlement which could cost the domain name registrar up to $1 mil...

We will be blogging blogged the live auction results of the Rick Latona Auction at Targeted TRAFFIC conference in Silicon Valley. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results.  From our tracking 34 names sold for a total take of $390,675 $374,675 .    (FLR.com did not sell when it...

Today is the last day to save $100 on early bird registration for the Associated Cities Geo Domain Conference.  The show is slated for April 23-25th in sunny San Diego.  Currently the cost is $595 and you can register here. The conference agenda features a host of domain industry speakers  includ...

April 1st is always a day full of fun at DNN.com, but we were disappointed to read elsewhere about news at DomainNameWire which turned out not to be part of an April Fool’s joke.  As per a company press release (PDF), Dark Blue Sea CEO Richard Moore has announced that he will be stepping down...

Please note that the following is a parody intended for April Fools day 2009. DNN has received official word from The Papal Cardinal of Domains, Francois Doticus Comus, that long time Domain Pope, John Berryhill has been defrocked. The disheartening news came only weeks after the pontiff was caugh...

Please note that the following is a parody intended for April Fools day 2009. Domain Name News has received a copy of a private email correspondence between Google employees and a domain company that indicates what some in the domain space have suspected all along.  The email dated April 1, 2006 be...

Please note that the following is a parody intended for April Fools day 2009. Now that ICANN has moved forward plans to create domain names in every character set and language on Earth, the organization is pushing forward a new plan to implement new Unidentified Foreign Origin Domain Names (UFODNs)....

Please note that the following is a parody intended for April Fools day 2009. Canadian government officials confirmed with DNN that the government will be attending the upcoming Sydney ICANN meeting to block the progress of a proposed new CCTLD.  As previously reported, California Governor Arnold S...

Please note that the following is a parody intended for April Fools day 2009. Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons has finally caved in to the battle over the company’s controversial advertising campaigns.  Company President Bob Parsons has been meeting with Christian church leaders over the past few week...

For most waking from a coma is seen as good news, but for Charles Dupont he’s received the rudest of awakenings. Dupont’s car accident on December 4th, 2004 caused severe brain swelling. He lied in a hospital bed comatose from that injury from that day until March 25th when he suddenly a...

As previously reported by DNN, the domain name Auction.com was suspected to have been sold at the beginning of the month for $2.5 million.  DNN just received official confirmation from Rick Weinberg, Real Estate Disposition Corporation’s (REDC) Communications Director,  that the domain name ...

Blackberry maker, Research In Motion (RIM), recently announced their sponsorship of the upcoming U2 world tour.  So naturally what would you do when planning a massive marketing campaign tied to a huge event like this?  You do what Godaddy did !  You register all sorts of domain names. Some to us...

Unconfirmed reports are bubbling on Twitter and other sites that the ‘category killer’ domain name, Auction.com, may have been sold for $2.5 million.  Based on the current whois record and the whois record from 2-days ago, the domain is definitely under new ownership. A new site is also...

Godaddy has introduced a new product that enhances their “Cash Parking” domain parking service and gives domainers one more domain development option. The “Quick Content” service provides customers using “Cash Parking” with content to further develop out their dom...

Former Vice President Gore, who often took barbs about his misconstrued statement about ‘inventing the internet’, can now partially lay claim to inventing a new domain name. Al Gore and his Alliance for Climate Protection have announced  their intentions to join a group of other “...

The ICANN meeting in Mexico City is well under way again for the third day. If you are interested in listening in on the meetings, many of the audiocasts can be found by clicking on the event list at the ICANN Mexico website.  If you don’t know much about ICANN it may be a good way to learn a...

The Toys.com domain name bankruptcy auction is now over. I caught the tail end of the auction and listened and Twittered as the 2 final bidders ToysRus and National A1 Advertising fought it out with $5,000 bid increments.  The final blow by Toys”R”us was a $5,100,000 bid that trumped Na...