SocialDomainers.com, a new social network for Social Domainers has just been launched by Tony Kanakaris, a Long Island, New York based domainer. The network was set up in order to help local domainers meet and connect. For today’s launch, the site is giving away an Apple iPad for the 1,000th m...

Following the course of other TLDs, such as .DE, Nominet has posted a document for their members and registrars proposing the release of single and double character domain names in the third level of the .UK domain (under co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and .net.uk). The release would exclude some domains th...

After organizing the largest event for the Domain Industry with their recent DomainFEST Global in Santa Monica, Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor unit has now announced the dates and location for their European event. DOMAINfest Europe will be held from October 6-7th in Prague in the Czech Republic ...

The French registrar Gandi.net is giving away 55,000 Domain Names in celebration of the ICANN accredited company’s 10th birthday. The amount of promo codes given away will increase from day to day up to a total of 55,000. The longer a registrant has been with the company the more promotional c...

DomainConsultant’s Mike Fiol has contacted us to with the news that the company’s site has recently been relaunched in the form of a blog. The company is most known for their work assisting with the auctions held by DomainTools on the Aftermarket.com platform. The company has also launch...

IDG’s PCWorld just published an article by Jared Newman about 15 Internet Annoyances and how to fix them. Of course the author thinks that parked domains are one of them, even if they may actually get the user to where they want to go. So Newman recommends all domains that involve framed parki...

According to a report issued by ICANN yesterday, the upcoming ICANN meeting in Nairobi in March has received a message regarding a direct threat against the conference venue, the Kenyan International Conference Center (KICC). ICANN had canceled a planned meeting in Nairobi last year due to security ...

CEO Rod Beckstrom earns $750,000 annual base salary plus bonus As a not-for profit Organization, ICANN always had to file and publish some information of how they spent their money. However those filings are hard to read and some cases some of the information has been removed. It appears ICANN presi...

Afilias, the company that (amongst others) operates the .INFO and .ORG registries has purchased the .MOBI sTLD operator, mTLD Top-Level Domain Ltd. for an undisclosed amount. The company has operated the registry infrastructure for the .MOBI sTLD from the start. Afilias and dotMobi are both private...

This weeks Sedo domains sales report is lead by the sale of DownloadTube.com for $33,000 followed by the sale of one of the recently released two -letter .DE domains, wo.de (= “where” in German) for 20,000 Euros (appx $27,000 USD). Domain name Date Price Currency Translation ...

Buydomains and AfterNIC have once again shared their recent sales over the last two weeks with DNN. The top sale in the fortnight was boating.com with $250,000. In total the company sold and brokered sales of 810 domains for a total of $1,480,207.98 making the average sales price $1,827.42. See the ...

Disappointing Results, Despite $370,000 Sale Even though the interest in the Silent Domain Auction after the Targeted TRAFFIC conference by Rick Latona could not generate much interest, it appears it produced at least one noteworthy sale, with LongIsland.com selling for $370,000 USD. However only 9 ...

As reported earlier, Avid Media Media Inc. (parent company of sites such as AshleyMadison.com) was planning to go public and use part of the raised funds to purchase Moxy Media. According to an article published by Reuters on Feb 1st, the deal is put on hold for now due to lack of interest from the ...

Today is your last day to place bids in the silent auctions for the Targeted TRAFFIC Las Vegas and DomainFEST conferences. The DomainFEST Silent Auction, run bei Moniker/SnapNames ends at 12:15pm PST (3:15pm EST) and the Rick Latona Silent Auction for TRAFFIC ends at 10am PST (1pm EST). (c) 2009 Dom...

Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the .COM gTLD with a Policy Forum and Gala and has also set up a website with a timeline of the development of .COM. The first domain name, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15th, 1985 and is today owned by domain investor Aron Mey...

The deadline to submit domains for the Live & Extended Auction for Domainer Mardi Gras 2010 is tonight, so if you would like to list some of your domains there, submit them today at SnapNames/Moniker. (c) 2009 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement WE BUY DOMAINS. We are interested in acquiring your ...

This weeks Sedo domains sales report is lead by the sale of designer.co.uk for 76,300 GBP (appx. $121,500 USD) followed by lundi.fr (Monday in French) for $50,000 EUR (appx. $69,000 USD) Also worth noting is the highest gTLD sale of ComTech.com for $60,000 to a German electronics retailer. The domai...

Estibot announced yesterday that a new version of the site (Estibot 2.0) was launched. Aside from a new domain valuation algorithm, the site also features a number of new tools: Parse domains into keywords, detect domain language, convert IDN domains, create lists of available domain names based on...

Here is a ranking of our most popular articles this January: Targeted TRAFFIC Las Vegas 2010 Live Auction Results DomainFest Global’s Premium Live Domain Auction Results Foreclosure.com Parent Seeks Bankruptcy Protection AshleyMadison.com to Go Public, to Purchase Moxy Media Adam Dicker leaves Go...

ICANN has named David Olive Vice President of Policy Development Support. Olive ends his 20 year tenure at Fujitsu where he most recently was General Manager and Chief Corporate Representative in the Washington office and will join ICANN on February 15th, 2010. He has also served as a member of the ...

We will be were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFEST Global event in Santa Monica, California for Moniker’s Low & No Reserve Live Domain Auction.  Unsold names will be sold in the extended online auction from 01/28 - 02/04 at 12:15 PM PT. As alwa...

As our man on the ground reports the two PitchFEST 2 winners were Chad Folkening with his Rapid Domain Builder as voted by the judges David Liu (Jefferies & Company Inc.), Douglas McPherson (Idealab), Richard Morganstern (Tech Coast Angels) and Root Orange won the people’s choice award. Th...

MissDomain is organizing a charity auction for the earthquake victims in Haiti based on the initiative and idea of Internetsweden. The auction will include .NU (country of Niue) domains, which are sold worldwide. According to the announcement the ownership of the domains will be free, since the regi...

With the recent news about Geosign Spin-Off Moxy Media, we also came across news about Restaurantica, a restaurant review website that was originally started in 2003 by Ryan May and sold to eMedia, which is owned by Geosign’s founder Tim Nye. Ryan May has sinced moved on and is working on his ...

We will be blogging the auction results of the auctions at the DomainFEST Global event in Santa Monica, California for Moniker’s Low & No Reserve Live Domain Auction. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Our apologies for starting the report on this late, but I actu...