Domain Name Wire NEWS

Spaceship rockets past 10 million domains  97
Combo of low prices, modern interface, and domain seller platform help registrar eclipse 10 million DUMs in just a few years. Spaceship...
Domain Name Wire - 14 hr 47 min ago
This week’s Sedo end user domain name sales  122
An air conditioning business, a Russian travel site, and a mirror seller bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale this week wa...
Domain Name Wire - 16 hr 54 min ago
New top level domain reveal day set for October 7  98
All 1,616 applications and replacement strings will be revealed next Thursday. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the day many of yo...
Domain Name Wire - 18 hr 0 min ago
Dynadot shares data from 54,000 domain sales  141
Eighty-nine percent of sales were below $50, but these made up just a third of sales revenue. Domain name registrar Dynadot has shared ...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 13:58
Namecheap ordered to explain why it shouldn’t pay $50,000 in ACPA case  122
Judge says law firm presented “ample evidence” Namecheap violated the ACPA. A law firm is asking a court to let it recover ...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 12:48
U.S. government gets default against Egypt.com domain name  135
Government alleges that domain name was purchased with illicit funds. The U.S. government will soon own the valuable egypt.com domain n...
Domain Name Wire - Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 11:52
Slovenia’s .si domain grows more than 15% in wake of Trump’s UN speech  150
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 - Monday, September 28, 2026 - 13:34
Domain-maxxing: Mogul upgrades from .club to Mogul.com for $1.3 million  138
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 - Monday, September 28, 2026 - 12:50
Web3 and new top level domains – DNW Podcast #605  113
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 - Monday, September 28, 2026 - 11:30
The 130th oldest domain registrar just got a breach notice  104
ICANN demands Netpia pay accreditation fees and bring business into compliance. One of the internet’s oldest domain name registra...
Domain Name Wire - Monday, September 28, 2026 - 11:18
ICANN heads down under for 2027 AGM  184
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  190
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  161
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  137
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  192
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

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