22+ hour, 9+ min ago  (295+ words) Company files launch plans for three more top level domains. Google Registry has filed plans with ICANN to launch the.eat,.here, and.fly top level domain names. The company applied for the domains in the 2012 top level domain expansion…...

23+ hour, 11+ min ago  (860+ words) Afternic Portfolio Agent helps domain sellers analyze their portfolios and make changes. Afternic did a limited release of its new Portfolio Agent this month. It’s currently being tested on accounts with 500 or fewer domains, but I asked GoDaddy to enable…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (586+ words) A $39,000.io domain sale led Sedo’s public sales list. It’s the dog days of summer, and that typically means fewer domain sales. Sedo reported just 51 sales of $2,000 or more for the past week. The good news is that the hit…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (249+ words) Andrew Allemann 1 Comment July 9, 2026 Two-way agreement will syndicate listings between the two platforms. Two years after announcing its Atom Distribution Network, domain sales platform Atom has landed a big fish. Starting today, Atom is syndicating Premium and Plus listings to…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (240+ words) Milestone comes five years after hitting the 17 million mark. DENIC, the organization that runs Germany’s.de domain name, announced today that there are now more than 18 million registered domains in the namespace. Like many top level domains, the explosive growth…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (143+ words) After changing hands a few times, Chicago Public Media is launching chicago.com. Chicago.com is about to get a new life. Josh Metnick sold the domain name to Wrapports LLC, the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, in 2013. In 2017, former…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (272+ words) A lawsuit, my experience testing domain appraisal tools, and Team Internet’s antitrust claim were top news on DomainNameWire.com last month. Here are some stories you might have missed last month on Domain Name Wire. 1. GoDaddy customer must pay $652k after…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (599+ words) Unlike new TLD launches, there was no one-year junk drop. But many domains are coming up for renewal. Last week, domain registrar Dynadot announced a new auction category to help people sell domains they don’t plan to renew. It’s starting…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (243+ words) A nonprofit that raised funds for.meow through Kickstarter has selected its backend provider. One interesting thing about a new top-level domain applicant using crowdfunding is that you can follow along during the application and launch process. dotMeow Foundation, a…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (191+ words) The domain name was registered more than two decades before the company had any trademark rights. A Forum panelist has ruled that produce company Planet Harvest, LLC, attempted to reverse hijack the domain name planetharvest.com. The company uses the…...