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.IE On A Roll As It Hits Quarter Milli...
Ireland's ccTLD hit the quarter million domain name registrations mark last week as .ie has been on a mini boom since a relaxation in eligibility rules in March. Today there are 254,400 .ie domain names registered, and 34,000 have been registered this year. The magical domain name chosen as the 250,000th was for a leading beauty salon in Dublin called The Wicklow Street Clinic that specialises in a wide range of treatments and therapies for skin and body. 'Customers
.NET Slide Continues As New gTLDs Rebo...
The number of domain names registered around the world closed in on the 340 million mark at the end of the second quarter, 2018, according to Verisign's latest Domain Name Industry Brief, as .net registrations continued to slide and new gTLDs rebounded. At the end of the quarter, there were 339.8 million registrations, an increase of approximately 6.0 million domain name registrations, or 1.8%, compared to the first quarter of 2018. Domain name registrations have gro
DomainTools Sees 1 Billionth Domain Name
There are currently around 335 million domain names registered around the world, but many domain names are deleted or expired and some are re-registered. So DomainTools has announced they've seen their 1 billionth unique domain name in the 17 years they've existed. But how many domain names that have come and gone, nobody knows. DomainTools has only been existence monitoring domain names since around 2001 and the first .com domain name ever registered, symbolics.com,
.LUXE Launches With Ethereum Blockchai...
Minds + Machines (MMX) has launched what they're describing as the first open top level domain to combine Ethereum blockchain innovation and security with ease-of-use for today's world, with a Sunrise period commencing today. The .luxe standard that 'lets you exchange easily' smart contracts, crypto and other blockchained products. With a .luxe domain name, there's no more unintelligible 40 character hashes just easy-to-remember .luxe words of your choice. The launc
Escrow.com Introduces Escrow Pay Secur...
Escrow.com has introduced a new streamlined checkout payment system for the buying and selling of domain names, as well as cars, boats, aeroplanes anything of value, with one line of code added to a website. The service is called Escrow Pay and has no minimum fee and prices as low as 0.89%. It's being billed as the ideal solution for any website, mobile app, online store, classified site or marketplace that needs to take payments for any product or service of value.
Ice Baby Ice.com Rockets To Top of Yea...
The sale of ice.com last month for a whopping $3.5 million, brokered by Grit Brokerage/Brannans, to Intercontinental Exchange, who currently use theice.com as their home online and where ice.com is currently redirecting, was the top reported domain name sale for the week ending 15 July. According to the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales of all time, a chart that has been compiled since 2003, it would be the 14th biggest sale ever and the biggest since t