Two large site builder platforms are now auctioning their expired domain inventory at GoDaddy. GoDaddy Auctions recently picked up expired domain inventory from two large website builder companies, ...

Domainer Expo is coming up soon and I asked founder Ish Milly if he could give some insights about the conference. 1) What made you decide to get into the conference game? I have a background ...

Company tried to buy the domain name before filing a cybersquatting complaint. A Nominet Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) panelist has found (pdf) travel company Cloud Travel to have tried reverse ...

An interesting theory from Rank Theory. For decades, people have purchased expiring domains with lots of backlinks for their SEO benefit. Sometimes it’s to redirect them to other websites. In other ...

Here are the correct answers to last month’s trivia contest. Last month, I held the first DNW trivia contest. Participants had to answer 10 questions correctly to win these prizes: $250 account credit ...

ICANN seems to have won a big victory in its ongoing tussle with Namecheap over price caps for .org and .info domains. A California court ruled late last week that it cannot force ICANN into pricing ...

Eleven notable domain registrars have abandoned ICANN’s pilot Registration Data Request Service, substantially reducing its usefulness. In June, 11 accredited registrars pulled their support for the ...

ICANN has given a warning to Malaysian registrar WebNic, claiming that it has turned a blind eye to abuse reports in breach of new Registrar Accreditation Agreement rules. ICANN Compliance says the ...

Malayasia’s .my ccTLD has almost doubled in size since the start of the year, likely due to rule liberalizations and steep discounts at leading registrars. MYNIC, the local registry, is reporting 675, ...

Verisign’s .com gTLD had a relatively strong showing in the first month of the third quarter, its zone file growing by over half a million domains. The TLD had 155,946,391 names in its zone at the ...

Patricio Poblete seems set to serve a third and final term on ICANN’s board of directors, after nobody else put themselves forward as an alternative. Poblete, of Chilean ccTLD registry NIC Chile, was ...

Domain industry overseer says domain registrar is lax when investigating and responding to DNS abuse complaints. ICANN has ...