Domain Name News

Casino.de sold for €400000
... almost US$10 million comes the sale of casino.de for €400000 (US$591000). It is inaccurately claimed to be the record price for a .de domain name – the record goes to another gambling-related domain name, poker.de, that sold for ...

400000 .cz Domain Names
CZ national top-level domain, registered yesterday at 22.20 the 400000th domain. The domain registration speed has increased significantly since the last year's 2 October when the association launched their own registration system for ...

American Airlines bucks the .mobi trend
American Airlines have announced they are making their website accessible via mobile devices, but not via a .mobi domain name as many companies are doing these days. Rather, when accessing AA.com on a mobile phone or device their system ...

SIDN landrush reponse
SIDN, the .nl registry, has been looking into allegations the landrush for numerical domain names was poorly organised and disenfranchised many who participated in the landrush. SIDN has commenced an internal investigation into the ...

Domain Name News - March 16, 2008
The total number of domain applications was 505838, including applications received during Landrush and the earlier Sunrise and Pioneer periods. During Sunrise and Landrush, 46748 domains received more than one application and will go ...

Numeric .gp domain names available soon
Nic.gp (Guadeloupe) have announced 1 and 2 digit domain names will be available for registration soon, although no date is given. One hundred domain names will be available from 00.gp to 99.gp as will ten domain names from 0.gp to 9.gp.

Casino.de sells for €400000
Danish internet company Balslev Media have reported they have purchased the domain name casino.de for a reported €400000. “The value of the domain consists of several things; first of all it’s the perfect brand name — it’s short and it ...

How to check if your website is really down
Sometimes you try and access your blog / website and you get a “Server not found” error in your browser. This does not automatically mean that your website is down. It could simply mean that your ISP is having problems reaching the ...

Casino.de sold for €400000
It is inaccurately claimed to be the record price for a .de domain name – the record goes to another gambling-related domain name, poker.de, that sold for €695000 in 2007. However it is the fifth highest reported domain name sale of ...

The Observer on Domain Name Trading
Another story in the mainstream press on domain name trading, this time by The Observer, part of the stable that makes up one of the top half dozen newspapers in the English-speaking world. This article looks at Neil Stanley, ...