Two more valuable domain names added to auction. Moniker has published the final list of domains for next week’s live domain auction during DOMAINfest, as well as the online auction to follow. Bargain.com and Democracy.com have been added to the auction. Bargain.com’s reserve is north of $750,000 while Democracy.com is available for somewhere between $100,000 [...]

Casa.com is next online store from Amazon.com’s Quidsi unit. Mi casa su casa… Earlier this month I scooped that Quidsi, the company behind Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, and YoYo.com, was working on a new store called Casa.com. Quidsi has now published a “coming soon” page to Casa.com and launched a Facebook page. The site will offer [...]

Trademark office sends office action to PING Golf brand owner. On Wednesday I posted a list of 115 trademark applications that could be related to new top level domains, along with their current status. The USPTO has a policy of not granting trademarks on top level domains, and the number of “speculative” trademark applications has [...]

Opportunity to dine with DOMAINfest speakers quickly disappearing. Want some quality time with Brook Schaaf, John Morris, Lisa Box, Jay Weintraub, or Paul Nicks during DOMAINfest next week? Your easiest opportunity is no longer available. These are among the people who already have full tables for their “Dine with an Expert” session during the conference. [...]

Sedo is hosting these days a Benelux auction for domains with the .BE and .NL extensions .The auction runs until February 2,2012 and features 129 .nl and .be domain names .

An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum has awarded two domain names ,ShoutCastLive.com and ShoutCastLive.net to AOL.The company submitted a complaint on December 19,2011,asserting legal rights over the disputed domains .

According to a press release today,the domain name TechStartups.com is now available for sale .

The final agenda for the 2012 DOMAINfest conference – which features a  list of experts who will offer opinions on many key changes that will impact the domain industry – has been announced.

DomainTools announced recently that there are more than 100 .COM domain name registrations up to date,according to their research .There are currently 100.2 million .COM domain name registrations .

Verisign,has recently announced it financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011 and year ended December 31,2011 .

Company will apply for about a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com. VeriSign plans to apply for “about 12″ top level domain names this year, Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Naming Services, said on VeriSign’s investor conference call this evening. Most of these will be transliterations of .com. In other [...]

Over 32 million new domain registrations in .com and .net last year. 2011 set a record for new .com/.net domain registrations with over 32 million registration, VeriSign announced on its investor conference call this afternoon: In the fourth quarter, we added 1.9 million net names to the domain name base, and we processed 7.9 million [...]

You won’t have to wait until the Super Bowl to see this year’s commercials. It’s likely you’ve already seen GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercial featuring .co. GoDaddy has linked to it from its home page for about a week. Now the company is releasing its second half commercial on the web, too. The spot, dubbed “CLOUD”, [...]

According to DomainTools.com, a provider of domain name research and whois information, the number of .com domains under management by the registry has eclipsed 100 million domains. In a statement issued earlier today DomainTools claims that through their research they “calculated the current total of domains managed by Verisign to be over 100.2 million” DomainTools’ [...]

DomainTools claims milestone reached; VeriSign earnings call on tap for today. At the end of October VeriSign was very, very close to hitting the 100 million .com domain name milestone. Now, according to DomainTools, there are officially 100 million .com domain names registered, not including those going through the redemption process or pending delete. Given [...]

Free service finds potential buyers for your domain names. Sure, you can sit on your domain portfolio and wait for the right buyer to come along. But you’ll sell a lot more domains if you actually try to sell them. The big challenge is finding qualified buyers for your domains. That’s a problem that LeadRefs.com [...]

SIDN,the company behind .nl domain name,announced that 2011 was a great year for them .Net growth was 607,265 domain names (14.5%): a huge increase on 2010.

Colombian model to attend dinner party on February 1. DOMAINfest organizers have just announced that Columbian model Natalia Velez, who stars along with Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels in a GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial this year, will attend the conference taking place in Santa Monica next week. Velez will be in person at the Petersen [...]

Twitter gets typo of its Twitter.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded Twitter the domain name Twittr.com in a uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) proceeding. Twittr.com was originally registered before Twitter’s “first use in commerce” date on its trademark for “Twitter”. Although Twitter says it actually started the service [...]

Sedo publishes fact sheet about its promotion and pricing levels. I have to admit I’ve been a bit confused by the various listing levels now offered at Sedo, especially when it comes to the SedoMLS system. Sedo has published a new fact sheet that compares the levels, and it makes more sense to me now. [...]

Potential inventory boon for Afternic. Customers of Tucows can now list their domains for sale on AfternicDLS at the Premium level, Afternic announced this morning. This means customers can list their domains with “buy now” prices and they can be sold through AfternicDLS’ instant transfer process. Tucows had previously offered the ability to buy domains [...]

Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends today. At the time of this post, 53 out of the listed 71 domains have received bids. The auction ends today (Jan 26) at noon Eastern Time. Domain Current Bid Price Range # of Bids received Bid now zimbabwe.com 45,000 USD 25,000 – 49,999 USD 16 Continue channel.com 41,000 USD [...]

Finans Bank submitted a complaint with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center,asserting legal rights over the domain name FinansBank.xxx  .

Neomobile.com  domain name sold for $58,500 million through Sedo ,topped Domain Name Journal weekly sales list of reported domain names in the week to January 22,,2012 .

At an extended meeting held on 23 January, the Registrars Committee discussed prospective solutions to the problem of vacated domains registration. The Committee meeting was attended by representatives of the Technical Center of Internet (TCI) and the …

Moniker and SnapNames,both Oversee.net companies will host a Premium Spring Auction,which features a world-class line up of high quality, brandable generic domain names at all price points including Low and No Reserve!

Company considering what to do with its domain name portfolio. Marchex is often cited as starting a wave of acquisitions of domain portfolios when it announced the purchase of Ultimate Search from Yun Ye in 2004 for $164 million. Now it is looking at “strategic alternatives” for its domain name portfolio. From a press release [...]

I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But after an exhaustive analysis of 115 trademark applications, I’ve actually found that the U.S.P.T.O. is mostly on top of things when [...]

Sedo today announced an exclusive auction of premium .ME domain names. The company has successfully brokered the sale of more than 1,000 .ME domain names, totaling nearly two million U.S. dollars, including such premier names as Business.Me for €40,000, and online meeting platform Join.Me for $45,000. Global brands such as WordPress (wp.me), Facebook (FB.Me), Porsche [...]

Sedo,in partnership with the .ME Registry announced an exclusive auction of premium .ME domains.The auction begins on February 2,2012 and runs for a full week,until February 9,2012 .