New gTLDs

Donuts offered some insights about their premium domain names. The only insight I got, and that comes as no surprise, is that people have been and are (always) registering bad domains. Donuts is generally characterizing …

PeopleBrowsr announced the sale of its BestTLD Pty Ltd subsidiary to The Best SAS, a Paris based company led by President, Cyril Fremont. BestTLD Pty Ltd owns the .Best top level domain. It has distribution …

I checked to see what .app domain name sales are listed on Namebio.com and I found 4 sales all from June 2018. .App domains launched about 2 months ago. .App entered general availability on May …

Donuts Inc. today announced the sales of the domain names science.news, food.news, health.news, medicine.news, pollution.news, cancer.news and climate.news. The exact terms of the sales were not disclosed, though Donuts said that the package was sold …

Matt Gill of Developed.nyc shared his experience selling .NYC domain names since October 2014. First of all I would like to say that .nyc has smaller investor competition as you can only register this New …

Afnic has published its 2017 study on the global domain name market, based on ICANN statistics, registry figures, specialized site information and internal research: At the end of 2017, the global domain name market represented …

Donuts Inc. today announced it has re-acquired the .fan top-level domain (TLD), making it the 241st TLD in Donuts’ portfolio. .fan names are anticipated to be generally available in mid-September. “We are excited to add .fan to …

Verisign released the latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief, which showed that the first quarter of 2018 closed with approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs),  an increase of  approximately …

Intercap Holdings Inc. announced the acquisition of the new domain name extension, following ICANN’s consent to the change of control. As the first domain ending in the Intercap Holdings portfolio, .inc is being brought to …

There is a lot of talk about the recent launch of .App domains by Google. It seems a bit ironic to me that there is so much optimism for the .app new extension. Apps are …

Namecheap launched Namecheap Easy Payments, powered by the Names.club platform, in order to make premium domain names more accessible to startups, small businesses and everyone else. Namecheap Easy Payments adds a finance option to more …

So long suckers! Neustar, the .nyc registry, and Sedo, the auction house responsible for the latest “travel” .nyc auction, have canceled the domain auction for broadwaytickets.nyc that was supposed to end on May 10. Why? …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX), announced today that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the entire membership interests of ICM Registry LLC (“ICM”), a US company, for a cash payment …

.App domain names officially launched yesterday as the new extension, run by Google, entered the EAP phase. EAP is the early access period when anyone can register available .app domains for an extra fee. The …