Internet giant Google.com has lost an arbitration case over the domain name Groovle.com. In a decision released today, The National Arbitration Forum, dismissed Google’s complaint which claimed that it was entitled to the domain name Groovle.com. Google claimed that the domain name  is “confusingly similar” to its trademark for “Google”. The unanimous three person panel [...]

DNCalendar.com, the domain industry’s event calendar and Domain Name News with the support of Targeted TRAFFIC, Domainer Mardi Gras, Geo Domain Expo and Domain Convergence bring you a free calendar giveaway. With the help of our sponsors, we’ve printed 250 desk calendars and one of them can be yours. Simply fill out the form after [...]

As per a tweet from Twitter’s Biz Stone last night followed by a blog post it appears that Twitter’s DNS servers have been compromised yesterday. The cracker redirected the DNS so it displayed a message from “The Iranian Cyber Army”. As far as we can tell with the NameServer History tool at DomainTools, it appears [...]

While NameDrive’s NDX Market has usually never published any domain sales, the company has now shared some of its sales with us since the launch of the site six months ago. The company has sold 4,526 domains for a total amount of $4.64 million USD, at an average price of $1.025 per domain across 24 [...]

In light of eNom following suit and increasing their redemption fee to $250 (as reported by DNN), ICANN has published the “Advisory Concerning Posting of Registrar Fees for Restoring Deleted Domain Names” yesterday. In the advisory ICANN does not limit the amount chargeable for domain redemption, but does remind registrars that the Registrar Accreditation Agreement [...]

Verisign (VRSN) just sent an announcement to their Registrar list saying that they will increase the registration and renewal fees for COM & NET domains as of July 1st, 2010. The registration, renewal and transfer fee for .COM domains will then be increased from $6.86 to $7.34 and the .NET annual fees will be increased [...]

Kevin Ohashi, a domainer and student, recently won the Venture Cup Syd business plan competition in Sweden.  Ohashi, who is studying for his second Masters in International Marketing and Brand Management at Lund University, won the top prize for student business plans and another top 10 recognition for a second plan. Naturally, both of Ohashi’s [...]

Sedo closed $750,000 in weekly sales including Büromöbel.de for $100,000 (€69,000), SPB.com for $65,000, Arenal.com for $40,000, and MyLikes.com for $40,000. Büromöbel.de stands for “Office Furniture” in German. SPB.com was purchased by SPB Software, a mobile software company located in New Jersey. Arenal.com is a geo-based domain that could be used for the town in [...]

The WhyPark.com charity auction is underway featuring quality domain names donated by WhyPark.com, KidsCoats.com, SuccessClick.com, DomainNameWire, YummyNames, Chef Patrick, RobSequin.com and Latona’s. The five-day auction started on December 14 and runs until December 18. It is the first auction to be used by Rick Latona Auctions’ new auction platform and services at Latonas.com. Click here [...]

Namecheap.com, a leading domain name registrar, is hosting its second annual holiday Twitter trivia contest, featuring $20,000 in prizes including domain name credits, Dell Studio 15 laptops, and Barnes & Noble nooks. “We had a great time with our trivia contest last year and felt our clients and new users did as well so we [...]