According to the press release for DNHeadlines.com, the new service  is the “only Domain Name Industry Single Page Content RSS Feed Aggregation Service”.

DNHeadlines.com parses RSS Feeds from Domain News sites and Domain Blogs, aggregates them by each feed.

At the moment, DNHeadlines.com is in Beta (launch date imminent).
TheDomains.com is proud to be included in […]

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According to a post in Dot Weekly Tucows is still pulling domains from the Afternic Platform.
I will not relay our dealings with Tucows in their in-house auctions again (you can read all the posts herein) but basically they took back 260 domains they sold at auction, after they sold, saying that it was a mistake […]

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With the announcement by the TRAFFIC show organizers yesterday that there would be up to three live domain auction at TRAFFIC the question is will this result in an overall higher amount of sales?
Here’s our take.
This is pretty much a zero sum game.
Lets say there are 500 people attending the conference in New York.
Each person […]

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One of the leading domain attorneys we all know and love sent me an e-mail today about my Post the other day concerning Domain Registrars which warehouse expired domains of their customers instead of releasing them into a drop or auction.
It seems that Paragraph 3.7.9 of the agreement between ICANN and the Regsitrars that we […]

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Moniker announced today that it the recent system upgrades have been completed resulting in the Moniker account control panel to load much faster making it easier to use for domainers and other bulk users.

According to Moniker the new platform is 10 to 25 times faster than before, based on the size of the portfolio, […]

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In a very interested article in Newsweek.com, Jake Winebaum is interviewed.  Mr. Winebaum apparently is one of the founders of a company called ecompanies, which bought the domain, business.com for $7.5 Million in 2000, or did they pay that much?
In his interview he is quoted regarding the $7.5 Million dollar purchase price paid for business.com:
“”””The […]

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The The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) served up another ridiculous figure to the press today in discussing the new $.20 per domain, non-refundable fee imposed by ICANN to eliminate domain tasting.
CADNA in said that ICANN move was only a “partial success” and it “is unlikely that the proposed solution will adequately address domain […]

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Today as reported by DomainNameWire.com the General Counsel of GoDaddy, Christine Jones announced that
“”””To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales & back orders.””””
We applaud GoDaddy in reversing their policy and taking this […]

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I have read hundreds of stories about ICANN voting to allow the creation of an unlimited amount of domain extensions in the mainstream media.  Each and everyone of these article talks about an adult extension .xxx/.sex or some other version as a foregone conclusion in terms of popularity among users and applicants.
The question is how […]

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ICANN has unimously voted to allow an unlimited amount of new TLD’s, using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.
In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part:
“””The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able […]

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