New gTLDs

Today, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) released two reports aimed at measuring the state of popular browsers and websites and their ability to handle all domain names – including new, longer, or non-Latin top-level …

Google announced that they want the internet more secure and because of that they have added another tool in their toolbox, the HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS) preload list. The HSTS preload list is built …

WordPress and Automattic, the parent company of WordPress and the new .blog extension, are recommending that you should get a .com domain name if both the .com and .blog domains are available. Automattic has setup …

It seems that a few of the domains that were in the 3 .NYC auctions in the past year were not paid for. I got a tip that the highest selling domain name from the …

Plan Bee LLC, the company operating the .build top-level domain, has been suspended in California. The Beverly Hills based company has been suspended by the California Secretary of State AND the Franchise Tax Board. The …

In the devastating wake of Hurricane Irma the Fort Lauderdale, Florida based headquarters of .CLUB Domains, LLC sustained extensive damage. The destructive wrath of Irma tore off a vast portion of the building’s roof destroying …

.vip, .club, .shop and .ltd are the first 4 domain name extensions to receive approval by the Beijing Communications Administration. .VIP is an MMX extenstion, .Shop is managed by GMO Registry, Inc. and .ltd is …

.Miami has produced a couple of very interesting videos in order to promote this regional domain name extension. .Miami launched in October 2015 but its numbers are far from impressive. The New gTLD peaked at …

The 2nd “Brands and Domains” conference will be held on October 2-3 at The Hague, Netherlands. The objectives of the conference according to the organizers are: Inform brands about the existing use cases so that …

GoDaddy will stop offering all Uniregistry domain names and extensions on August 29, 2017. A few months back GoDaddy suspended all Uniregistry extensions after the price increases were announced but then reinstated (some and then) …

Namecheap announced that it will be discontinuing several of the Uniregistry and XYZ domain name extensions (plus .rich and .luxury) on September 7, 2017. Kudos to Namecheap! The domain name registrar said that it has …

ICANN announced the publication of the report, “Statistical Analysis of DNS Abuse in gTLDs” [PDF, 2.23 MB]. The study aims to compare rates of these activities between new and legacy gTLDs, as well as employs …

Donuts successfully completed the acquisition of Rightside and that is good news for registrars and their end customers with Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) programs. From now on companies interested in brand protection will not …

Donuts Inc., today announced that it has closed a $110 million credit facility led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of SVB Financial Group), and with participation from Cadence Bank, N.A., Comerica Bank, Pacific Western Bank, and Umpqua Bank.  This debt …