How to register domains for $2.00 at big name registrars. I know a lot of readers are always on the lookout for domain coupons and special offers. So I’m going to tell you a way to register domain names for as little as $2 each. And I’m not suggesting using some no-name registrar. We’re talking [...]

Two trademarks issued yesterday. Right of the Dot, the new top level domain advisory company founded by Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens, has been granted two trademarks related to its brand. Both trademarks, registrations number 4,104,592 and 4,104,593, were registered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on February 28. The first is for the [...]

Colombia Pictures wins dispute over domain name. “The domain! The domain!” Fantasy Island has been returned to Columbia Pictures — in cyberspace, that is. The company just won a domain name dispute for FantasyIsland.com. You can’t blame the company for not registering FantasyIsland.com when the show first aired in the 70s. Although you can question [...]

New domain selected as most important news story of 2011. .XXX was the “most important” domain news story/topic of 2011, according to over 1,000 people who answered the question on the 7th annual Domain Name Wire survey. Why did 25% select .xxx as the most important news story? Well, it certainly got a lot of [...]

When forced to choose an alternative, most go with .net. If a domain investor can’t get the .com for a domain name but has to choose a secondary gTLD, they choose .net 62% of the time. That’s based on 1,137 survey responses in Domain Name Wire’s 7th annual industry survey. Survey respondents are asked: “If [...]

HP buys domain for cloud offering and a look at 18 other end user domain purchases this past week. HP is the biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report. The company purchased CloudFolders.com for what amounts to pennies (or a fraction of a penny) to the company: $3,790 at Sedo. Interestingly, the [...]

DomainAdvisors announced that the domain name Brain.com is now up for sale.Brain.com is a premium domain,highly marketable and easy to remember .

KBoing.com topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $150,000.Highlights also include Tev.de,leading the ccTLD category at 15,000 EUR and OptionStrading.org,leading the “Other” category at $10,000 .

Overstock announced recently that it has launched a new consumer information portal at O.info .The website features product reviews and buying guides,to help consumers make more informed decisions .

EuroDNS,one of the largest registrars,is now offering a special limited time promotion on .FR domain names.By using the promo code PRFR12A you can register a .FR domain name at an exclusive price of just € 4.99.

Company registers “sucks” domains and others for new pharma unit CEO Richard Gonzalez. Abbott Laboratories is splitting into two this year, and Richard A. Gonzalez will be the CEO of its pharmaceuticals unit. As a number of companies do for their senior leadership, Abbott is making sure you don’t register web addresses to tarnish Gonzalez’ [...]

Sedo announced that Jeremiah Johnston will be speaking this year at SXSW Interactive in Austin,Texas.

21% of those surveyed think government regulation is biggest issue in domain market this year. Domain investors think government regulation is the top issue facing the domain name market in 2012. That’s according to 1,143 people who answered the question on the 7th annual Domain Name Wire survey. 21% said that government regulation is the [...]

Bodog.com domain name has been seized by the Department of Homeland Security agents in Baltimore.Bodog is one of the biggest names in online gaming.

Site aggregates reviews from Overstock.com. Overstock.com has officially launched o.info, a domain name it acquired from .info registry Afilias back in September. A press release issued today says the site features “blogs, reviews and buying guides”. It’s really just a thrown together aggregation of reviews from Overstock.com that lead users back to Overstock.com. In other [...]

The 43rd International ICANN Meeting gets underway in less than two weeks (11 March 2012 ), in San Jose,Costa Rica where the conference will continue through March 16,2012 .

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that there are 144 successful registrants in the online new generic Top Level Domain Application System.

Yahoo! filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum over someone who registered the domain name YahooLinks.org.

The Japanese GMO Registry has received support from the Osaka Prefectural Government to operate the .OSAKA gTLD, should the application to ICANN be successful.

In an attempt to make .PT domain names more accessible, the Foundation for National Scientific Computing, has announced changes to registration policies to take place on 1 March. The changes mean anyone can register a domain for the Portuguese ccTLD…

ICANN launched their redesigned website Monday with the new design offering a more logical layout to find relevant information.

Site hit with domain dispute. The Huffington Post Union of Bloggers (HPUB), a site and organization formed by former Huffington Post bloggers and other writers, may lose its main domain name. A case against HuffingtonPostUnionofBloggers.org was filed at National Arbitration Forum today, presumably by HuffPo owner AOL. While the site owns the shorter HPUB.org domain [...]

Escrow.com is escrow service of choice for over half of domain investors. Escrow.com has once again been selected by domain investors as the top domain name escrow service. In the seventh annual Domain Name Wire Survey, 60% of the more than 1,000 survey respondents said Escrow.com was best. Here are the top 5 escrow services, [...]

Four old names and a new one on this year’s list. Which company is most innovative when it comes to selling domains in the aftermarket? 1,152 people shared their thoughts on this question in Domain Name Wire’s annual survey. In first place is Sedo, capturing 37% of the vote. Next up is GoDaddy at 27%. [...]

Afnic,the company behind .fr,has published its reply to the public consultation by ARCEP on “Monitoring the quality of Internet access service on fixed networks”.

Company files cybersquatting lawsuit to get control of inflammatory web site. San Francisco based investment firm New Island Capital has filed an in rem case against NewIslandCapital.com. The company uses the domain name NewIslandCap.com. This should be a cautionary tale for any financial firm that doesn’t shore up important domain names. The registrant of NewIslandCapital.com [...]

That sinking feeling. Domain investors continue to report falling domain parking revenue, and most people report earning less than a $10 RPM. That’s according to greater than 1,000 people who answered the parking survey questions on the 7th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. While a lot of people reported neutral domain parking revenue in 2011 [...]

It’s obvious that .ME domain names have become one of the top choices in domain name aftermarket,after many .me domains saw a high interest from bidders.

With .XXX domain names now available to register for almost three months,we did some research on the number of UDRP disputes for .XXX domains filed so far .

Google has recently lost the fight over the domain name Youtube.com.pe,after and arbitrator with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center awarded the domain name to the respondent .