Godaddy.com announced a sponsorship deal with Hendricks Motorsports to be the primary sponsor for the #5 car for six events in 2008. The car will make it’s first race appearance in April driven by one of Nascar’s most popular drivers, Dale Earnhardt Jr. The car will late be driven by legendary driver Mark Martin and [...]

Australian domain name registrar, Domain Central announced that they have received the Australian Technology Fast 50 Award from Deloitte. The company placed 6th overall in the Technology category and was noted for their rapid growth rate of 1,055% over the past three years. [From company press release] Share

While the public wholesale registrar Tucows (TSX:TC, AMEX:TCX) has been offering a parking program for its resellers for a while, it has recently switched its parking platform to Skenzo. For the parking program, Tucows offers a 50-50 split of all net advertising revenue with the reseller. The registrar will also pick up some selected [...]

Godaddy.com has released the final list of domain names to be auctioned off in their new Signature Domain Auctions beginning November 6th. The list of 30 domains was compiled from submissions from the Godaddy website. Godaddy put up a page about the Signature Domain Auctions earlier this year and have been vetting submissions and [...]

Michele Neylon is right, there is a downside to ultracheap registrars (and registrar solutions). Apparently DirectI, the creators of the LogicBoxes registrar system which also runs the infamous answerable.com registration system that manages a majority of the SnapNames registrars, has a problem with their billing system. Or rather, their billing system has a problem with [...]

NameJet.com, a new player in the expiring domain name market, launched earlier today. The first hint of this was mentioned on Jay Westerdal’s blog in a post speculating that the launch of the site would mean the end of SnapNames exclusivity to the expiring domains coming from their partner NetworkSolutions. In the expiring [...]

The Wall Street Journal covers the “scourge” of the domain business, domain theft. Check the article out here. DomainNameNews contributor and “domain consultant” Richard Lau encourages domain owners and businesses to layer on the security when protecting your valuable domains: “The more valuable your domain name, the more you need to sacrifice convenience for security” Other notable [...]

A global major in domain name registration, web design and management services, Register.com has announced the expansion of its domain name searching capabilities. This move is expected to make it easier for the customers to purchase the website name required to generate a powerful online brand. The company has established key partnerships with some of the [...]

We noticed that during a recently updated list, Sedo is now amongst the ICANN accredited registrars. We contacted Mark Klein, Director of Business Development for some more information. “We are very excited about being ICANN accredited. Our goal is to support and represent our partners more effectively.” Mark Klein further stated that Sedo has no intention [...]

In an email to their resellers, Tucows announced a change in their pricing model yesterday. As of August 4th, the billing is now based on a cost + maintenance fee model. That means that Tucows resellers will now be charged the registry fee, the ICANN fee and a “Tucows Maintenance Fee” of $3.00 separately. So here [...]