NIRA created an aspiring plan to exceed the one million mark record registered by South Africa’s .za name zone. Nigeria has currently about 100,000 .ng domain names. If achieving this amount of domain names took them 20 years, how long...

The guidelines ICANN will use to review Registry Operator (RO) applications for conducting an Approved Launch Program are now published. Latest posts from Domain News What it should have been a pleasant and productively growth, it is actually a less...

Like any other domain name Instagram had a long history behind. The domain was first registered on June 24, 2004, but wasn’t launched until 2010. When it was bought by Facebook in 2012 for $1billion nobody would have thought today...

V5.vom domain name topped Sedo’s weekly sales list at $130,000. Highlights also include Fahrradtasche.de, leading the ccTLD category at 9,500 EUR and 555.club, leading the “Other” category at $5,755. Other notable domain name sales include .COM ligado.com 50,000 USD bmv.com...

ICANN invites you to participate in a webinar about the recently released Whois Privacy/Proxy Abuse Study, conducted for ICANN by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom. This study has now been published for public comment, and community...

Domainia Inc,announced today the launch of Webdomainia.net,a pre-registration adn awareness solution for the new gTLD .WEB . Brand.com was the highest selling .COM domain in June,2013,and also the biggest domain name sale reported so far in 2013.Brand.com was sold for...

Probability we all mistyped some addresses at least once in our life, but sometimes this can cost us more than we imagined. Security researchers have found out that if you mistype “.com” as “.om” in the next minute you will...

Beginner or expert in the domain name area, everyone knows that .com is the first choice of which the majority takes into account when buys a domain name. It’s a risky choice to buy the same domain name ending in...

SIDN,the company behind .NL domain,released today its 2012 annual report.Growth in number of .NL domains slowed considerably in 2012,according to the report . You can read the report after the jump “Growth in the number of .nl domain names slowed...

A new wide choice of domain names is available now with the release of more than 160.000 options from Afilias, after the end of Name Collision Management phase with ICANN. In a blog post that Roland LaPlante has published, it...