The following 6 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability yesterday: .ACADEMY .CENTER .COMPANY .COMPUTER .MANAGEMENT .SYSTEMS. Also .Uno went into general availability yesterday. Here are …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .Training .Support .Solutions .Builders and .Email. There is also .Uno coming out today. The most promising New gTLDs are probably .Training and .Support. …

ICANN is publishing the schedule [PDF, 376 KB] of the upcoming Auctions for unresolved contention sets. The first Auction Event is scheduled for 4 June 2014. As described in Module 4 of the Applicant Guidebook, …

Donuts wrote to ICANN Board Chairman Steven Crocker yesterday asking ICANN to put an end to the delay involving its application for .SPA New gTLD. Here is the complete letter: Dear Steve: We strongly urge the Board to advance the .SPA TLD through the processes enshrined in the Applicant Guidebook. While we respect the concerns raised by the City of Spa and the Belgian Government, we are confident that we have thoroughly addressed those issues, and that 

I posted some of .domains purchases in my post about .domains domain name sales. I was asked to post my best .domains purchases and had a glance and picked 14 of them. A reader asked …

Yesterday .Berlin, the first geographic/city New gTLD string went into general availability and it got 31,956 registrations in it’s first day. .Menu started on Monday and it got 1649 registrations in it’s first day. According …

On average, 81% of .eu domain names were renewed in 2013, according to the latest progress report from the .eu registry EURid. This is the seventh year running that .eu has maintained such a high …

The New gTLD domain name hustler.clothing has been suspended for 2 weeks now. The domain name is owned by Larry Flint Productions that is the owner of Hustler magazine and hustler.com. The domain was suspended …

I posted an article yesterday about Go Daddy not refunding the Early Access Program (EAP) fee of Donuts EAP pre-registrations. A few hours later I received an email from the “Office of the CEO – …

On the 12th of March ICANN granted a data retention waiver to European registrar OVH SAS. There are a lot more registrars that are waiting for this waiver such as Irish Registrar Blacknight that Is …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today provided a statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) announcement of its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions. The announcement …

I started writing this post thinking of one thing and realized that something else was more important. Look at the conclusion at the end of this post. This blew my mind. I am sure a …

ICANN Board Chair, Steve Crocker, reacts to U.S. decision to transfer stewardship of important Internet technical functions:

To support and enhance the multistakeholder model of Internet policymaking and governance, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced on Friday its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to …