Buying a domain name from a marketplace should be an easy, fast process. The fewer the steps, the better! It seems that this isn’t the case for domains listed on Afternic; at least, those with a ...

Amazon’s Early Access Periods for the new .now and .deal gTLDs have so far netted at least three premium-priced sales. Zone files reveal that so far .now has three new EAP domains but .deal has none.

It’s $227,000. That’s the minimum ICANN expects to charge for each new gTLD application in the Next Round. The Org confirmed the price, which is $42,000 more than it charged in 2012, in a blog post ...

ICANN has upped its expected new gTLD application fee after approving a costly new plan to tack name collisions. The baseline price of applying for a single string, most recently pegged at $220,000, ...

Despite the description, you don’t have control over how your listings migrate. I previously wrote about how I was opting out of the Dan.com-to-Afternic migration. I stopped using Dan.com a while ago ...

A running organization, a music festival, and a customized gift wrap seller bought domain names. Sedo had some interesting end user sales this week, although there were no notable big-ticket sales (at ...

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Aerotermia.es led the way at 14,000 Euro, ($15,613). Vepo.com was the top .com sale at 13,900 Euro, ($15,499). 30 .com sales 13 cctld sales 6 other tld ...

The major eight-figure IPv4 deal, brokered by Brander Group and facilitated by Escrow.com, transacts rare & critical IP addresses to multinational cloud services provider. Escrow.com, the leading ...

Attempted domain name hijacking thwarted. How’s this for irony: a company that builds armored vehicles to help people protect themselves from attacks has tried hijacking three domain names. 1141931 ...

The Neustar spin-off that once operated the .co TLD reportedly has lost a case against the Colombian government in which it had sought $350 million in damages over the acrimonious renewal of its ...

It had to happen sooner or later. With a few dozen would-be new gTLD applicants breaking cover over the last year or so, we seem to have our first clash and our first potential 2026-round contention ...

ICANN has finally named the members of the quasi-judicial body that will oversee its highest accountability mechanism. The names of the 12 members of the Independent Review Process Standing Panel were ...