Domain system overseer plans to retire .su in 2030. ICANN has formally notified the operator of the legacy Soviet Union country code domain, .su, of its plans to retire the domain in five years, ...

New team launches domain registrar that will offer marketplace and monetization. I’ve been a bit bewildered by .shop suddenly hiring lots of industry talent many years after the top level domain ...

AI companies and web3 projects bought domain names this week. Sedo had a huge sales week, closing GX.com for $1.2 million and double.com for $980,000. Remarkably, gx.com sold through a buy now ...

Sedo reported their weekly domain name sales and GX.com led the way at $1,200,000. W sold for $120,000. Coches.es was the top cctld sales at 120,000 Euro, ($131,005). 47 .com sales 28 cctld sales 4 ...

Budget $5,000 / Borderless.xyz Sold for $34,888 and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the ...

Nova Registry is going big with top level domains. At least one company is going big in the next round of new top level domain expansion. On today’s show, Yoni Belousov explains why his company Nova ...

Three more of Google’s stockpile of long-dormant gTLDs showed signs of activity recently, strongly suggesting the company may be preparing to launch them. The domains get.eat, get.fly and get.here ...

Nova Registry, which runs .link, has announced it plans to apply for 200 new gTLDs when ICANN opens up the next application window about a year from now. It’s the first time in this round a company ...

North American candidates for ICANN’s board of directors are having their applications politely rejected, the Nominating Committee has confirmed. Speaking to the GNSO Council at ICANN 82 in Seattle ...

Radix released their H2 2024 Premium domains report. The one thing that stood out to me was the increase in .fun ...

Domain Name Wire launched 20 years ago today. Domain Name Wire turned 20 years old today. I look back at photos from early conferences and am left in shock. Aging happens slowly, but wow, how the ...

Fractional domain ownership has been having quite the conversation the last couple days. John Berryhill started it off by replying to a 3 year old post written by the incomparable Bob Hawkes. Bob who ...