Domain Name News

Demand Media Plucks Pluck!
Richard Rosenblatt, co-founder, chairman and CEO of social networking firm and domain name registrar Demand Media, said Pluck is the next step for both his company and social networking in general ...

Domainer Meeting Auction Submissions must be in by April 17th
Moniker is reminding everyone who want to submit their domain names for auction for the upcoming Domainer Meeting Conference Auction in Paris, France to be aware of the submission deadline! A Live and Online Auction will be conducted by ...

Important - Launch of new DomainNews Site Today!
We are glad to announce the launch of the new DomainNews website today at 2pm! Please from 11am to 2pm, don't publish any articles! You will enjoy the improved features and the more intuitive and easier navigation of the site. ...

Skenzo Announces Private Equity Investment from Ashmore Group
Skenzo, a leading provider of technology, in the traffic monetization business, today announced the completion of a significant minority investment from the Ashmore Group. The Ashmore Group is one of the world's leading Investment Firms ...

Communicate.com Acquires Auctomatic and Changes Name to Live ...
Live Current/Communicate.com is in the domain name business with over 800 high valued domains including Perfume.com, Cricket.com, Call.com, Karate.com, Body.com, Brazil.com, Canadian.com, and others. The fourteen year old company has ...

Skenzo Announces Private Equity Investment from Ashmore Group
Domain name parking company Skezno announced via an email to partners today that they have received a minority stake investment from the Ashmore Group. The company release which has been copied below had not made it to either businesses ...

Demand Media raises an additional $35 million
According to a report by PEhub, Demand Media has raised another $35 million USD in series D financing. Richard Rosenblatt’s company has now raised $355 million in total VC funding since its March 2006 founding. ...

EuroDNS really screwed up the .ASIA Go Live kick off - I am so ...
ASIA Go Live kicked off yesterday and I, like thousands of other domainers, tried to get my hands on some cool generic .asia domain names via EuroDNS. I went with some 15 dictionary words which I thought were the most valuable as a ...

VeriSign says domain name fees rising (BizJournals)
VeriSign Inc. said Thursday registry domain name fees for .com and .net are rising. (VRSN) Continue reading at www.AdamDicker.com.

VeriSign Announces Increase in .Com/.Net Domain Name Fees ...
VeriSign, Inc., the leading provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, today announced, effective as of October 1, 2008, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net,... Continue reading at www. ...