Domain Name Wire NEWS

Slovenia’s .si domain grows more than 15% in wake of Trump’s UN speech  89
Trump jumpstarts new growth in Slovenia’s ccTLD. The country code domain for Slovenia, .si, has seen a surge in registrations ove...
Domain Name Wire - 8 hr 45 min ago
Domain-maxxing: Mogul upgrades from .club to Mogul.com for $1.3 million  85
Company expects return from all-cash deal in 6-12 months. Real estate crowdfunding platform Mogul has upgraded its domain name in a big...
Domain Name Wire - 9 hr 29 min ago
Web3 and new top level domains – DNW Podcast #605  72
A discussion about integrating existing web3 namespaces with new top level domains. Many top level domains applied for this year have a...

Domain Name Wire - 10 hr 49 min ago
The 130th oldest domain registrar just got a breach notice  67
ICANN demands Netpia pay accreditation fees and bring business into compliance. One of the internet’s oldest domain name registra...
Domain Name Wire - 11 hr 1 min ago
ICANN heads down under for 2027 AGM  177
ICANN90 will take place in South Australia. ICANN announced this week that it has chosen Adelaide, Australia, as the location for its 2...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, September 25, 2026 - 9:41
GoDaddy domains now automatically verified with Afternic  182
Domain owners have one fewer step to take if their domains are registered at GoDaddy. Afternic just launched a much-requested feature t...
Domain Name Wire - Friday, September 25, 2026 - 8:45
Virginia Department of Health sues to recover expired domain, now used for porn  154
Domain used for services for pregnant women now forwards to porn site. The Virginia Department of Health has filed a lawsuit to recover...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 17:19
D3 launches new TLD pre-order platform Frontier  131
Company aims to determine demand for TLDs, and help connect early registrants with participating registries. Domain company D3 has laun...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 12:20
Norton antivirus software maker in talks to acquire GoDaddy  179
The Financial Times reports that talks are in the early stages. Gen Digital, the company behind Norton 360 antivirus software, is in ta...
Domain Name Wire - Thursday, September 24, 2026 - 10:46
NameJet expired domain sales: a bonanza for iGaming  135
A lot of expired domains are bought to send traffic to online casinos. Back with the July SnapNames sales list, and you’re never ...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 23, 2026 - 13:2
ICANN confirms 1,616 new top level domain applications  142
ICANN collected over $350 million in application fees. ICANN has confirmed the final tally of top level domain name applications for th...
Domain Name Wire - Wednesday, September 23, 2026 - 8:39
Identity Digital spins out agentic effort, now called Known  157
Company’s Innovation Labs will become a separate company. Domain name company Identity Digital has spun out its nascent agent ide...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - 16:38
This week’s end user domain names sales, from iGaming to KYC  163
An iGaming company, a rental property business, and an English-learning platform bought domain names. Sedo sold evolution.co.kr and evo...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - 14:52
TLD fight: easyGroup threatens .easy applicant, LFG files lawsuit  181
LFG seeks legal relief and asks ICANN to clarify whether the easyGroup conglomerate broke new TLD rules. EasyGroup has threatened appli...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - 8:25
New TLD applicants impatiently wait for timeline  192
Reveal Day triggers a lot of deadlines, but applicants still don’t know for sure when it will be. One representative of UDRP appl...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, September 21, 2026 - 14:49

15 Older ❯