NIC Costa Rica has reduced the price of .cr domain names by 50% to US$35 for any domain registered for one year in a 12 hour special on 25 April. The promotion doesn’t apply to domain names registered for longer periods and is only for .cr domain names registered at the second level and doesn’t…
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Rightside Launches DPML Upgrade for Enhanced Domain Brand Protection
[news release] As trademark lawyers face tough challenges in protecting their client’s brand with ever-expanding Internet domain name options, Rightside Group, Ltd., today launched an upgrade of its Domain Protected Marks List (DPML) product (dpml.rocks). The upgrade radically expands DPML’s flexibility, giving trademark owners and their agents more tools to protect their valuable brand on…
Afnic Awarded Contract To Run .FR For 5 More Years
Afnic has been awarded the right to operate the .fr ccTLD for another 5 years, the registry announced. In December 2016 .fr passed the 3 million domain name registrations mark, just days after the Italian country code top level domain, .it, passed the same mark. In a decree dated 5 April 2017 published in the…
Three Short Domains Break Six-Figures To Top Weekly Sales Chart
A trio of short .com domain names topped the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 9 April, with lev.com coming first, selling for an even $200,000 through Garry Chernoff/DomainAgents. It only just topped the second biggest sale, d8.com, which sold for $196,500 selling through BQDN/Sharjil Saleem while BQDN took…
Number domains are still popular in China market
DOMAIN SALES Three six-number domains were auctioned for ¥73,000 CNY (approximately $10,579 USD), they were 888871.com, 888872.com and 888873.com, average price was $3,526 USD each domain. 77667.com changed hands recently, according to the seller, the price was a high five-figure CNY price. Pj444.com was auctioned for ¥40,000 CNY (approximately $5,797 USD) at a Wechat group…