Domain Name News is pleased to announce our new domain name for Domain Name News. DNN.com of course! From the beginning we’ve branded and used the DNN name. We knew we would have to do this. Acronyms are big in this business. Shorthand on chat and domainer forums have given [...]

DomainNameNews set out to collect information on domain newsletters out there. The following eight newsletters offer you domains for sale, but also domains available for (re-)registration. Find out about the 8 Domain Newsletters you cannot afford to miss after the jump.

Fusu, the world’s first domain stock exchange, launched two new features at the Domainer Meeting 2008: co-buying and auctions. Fusu Co-Buying is a new service for like-minded domain investors to share the purchase price of a domain. This feature will allow domainers to join together and buy high quality domains they would otherwise be unable to [...]

Danny Dover of SEOmoz wrote an interesting article, “Know Your Playing Field: The Real Top 100 Domains.” By studying the habits of the top internet companies, he figures other people can apply what has worked to their own websites in order to achieve success. Here’s what he found: Big Guys Rule: 60% of the [...]

Domainers Must Adapt…Again It’s a funny thing how domainers always expect their stank to rise…and continue rising. Funny because if you’ve been in this business long enough you’ve likely weathered, or not, a few industry tempests and cycles. We’re hardened sailors who have seen tough squalls and lived to tell the tale. Truth is, over time things [...]

Six generic IPTV Set-Top Box domains are now listed at Sedo. These IPTV Set-Top Box domains are listed in Sedo featured domains section, with private reserve prices. The listed domains are: IPTVBox.com, IPTVBoxes.com, IPTVSetTopBox.com, IPTVSetTopBoxes.com, IPTVSetTop.com and SetTop-Boxes.com [via Press Release]

The New York Times posted an interesting article regarding Steve Marshall, an English travel agent that had 80 websites blacklisted by the United States government. According to the story, the Treasury Department told eNom to disable Marshall’s tourism sites because they helped Americans evade travel restrictions to Cuba. This case raises the issue of [...]

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is attempting to push through legislation that will strip the .CA domain extension from Canada and allow the State of California exclusive rights to the domain. Schwarzenegger spokesperson, Arnold Smotcher said “Everyone knows that CA stands for California.” The State estimates billions of dollars in economic impact in internet users [...]

A news release sent to Domain Name News today announces that all remaining 3,4,5 and 6 letter .com domains are now registered. Sheikh Al Futain a wealthy Saudi recently decided to dive head first in to the domain space by locking down all of the remaining shorter domain names.