Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced the appointment of Diane Irvine and Shawn Colo to its Board of Directors. “Diane has directly relevant executive and board-level experience with public companies that are leaders in ecommerce …

Radix announced some top companies of the global hosting community as Pioneers of the .host namespace, which rolled in to Landrush on 26th August ‘14. The Pioneer lineup includes big international names like MediaTemple, Bluehost, …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On Thusday the 26th of August .HIV entered General Availability and got 127 domain name registrations in the zone files after it’s …

Minds + Machines announced today that it has spent approximately £840,000 (or about $1.4 Million USD) to develop its wholly-own registrar, Minds + Machines Registrar Limited. And that is only payments to an external consultant …

With the launch of the .ngo and .ong domains just around the corner, Rebecca Regan-Sachs, a representative of Public Interest Registry, will lend her expertise in online fundraising and brand identity at this year’s International …

New gTLD registries and registrars have a long way to go trying to make New gTLD domain names available to everyone. There is no consistency and every registrar has it’s own confusing  rules that most …

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. announced the Nominees for the 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS today. Here a few thoughts I had after I read the nominations list: People seem to be tired of awards. Not a lot of votes were …

Radix concluded sunrise for the first batch of its extensions – .website, .press and .host last week. .website alone saw more than 600 orders, making it one of the biggest new gTLD sunrises to date. …

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. announced the Nominees for the 2014 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS.  Each of these Nominees received nominations from at least 3 individuals. While nominations are open industry wide, voting is not. You MUST be on the TRAFFIC …

Public Interest Registry, the .org registry, released today the bi-annual report on the growth of .org domains. The report reveals that in the past twelve months the total number of .org domains under management increased …

DropCatch.com announced today that it has opened it’s domain name backordering API to it’s customers. DropCatch.com has exposed 2 API functions so that you can programmatically backorder domains. This feature makes use of NameBright.com API …

The first World Domain Day conference started on Sunday the 24th August at the Avasa Hotel, High Tech City, Hyderbad, India and ends today but Snapnames auction is under way and ends tomorrow. WDD (World …

On 14 August ICANN posted the Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance: Process and Next Steps. Since posting, ICANN received some questions that are compiled here together with items perhaps useful to be addressed for the …

.HIV New gTLD enters general availability today with a registration/renewal fee of about $200 or more and with a charity model I just don’t understand how it will work. .HIV registration fees vary wildly depending …