New gTLDs

Donuts Inc. today announced the appointment of Bruce Jaffe as chief executive officer. Paul Stahura, Donuts’ co-founder and current CEO, will continue to serve in a full-time role as executive chair of Donuts’ board of …

Andy Brier of NameStat.org and Name Metrics Ltd made a blog post that lists 947 one character new gTLD domains that were once registered but are no longer in the zone. They are now either …

Auctions.nyc and the City of New York will have their 2nd auction of premium .NYC domains. This time 24 fashion related domain names like Fashion.nyc, Shop.nyc and Makeup.nyc will be auctioned at Snapnames.com. The .NYC …

The domain name Sex.city sold at Sedo and is the 1st confirmed New gTLD sale of 2017. The domain was bought for $2,150 and the new owner is (surprise, surprise) from Amsterdam. When I saw …

Here is what domains attorney Charles Gucciardo bought with more than $500,000. Attorney Charles Gucciardo of The Gucciardo Law Firm, PLLC discussed his interest in new TLDs and motivation for registering dozens of domains in …

Rightside wants to make it easier for people to buy its New gTLD Platinum domain name inventory so today it launched two new programs that will expand access to high-value premium domains across all 40 …

.Shop and .Site just received a big holiday gift from the Chinese government today! The 2 new extensions got government approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology today and join .Club, .Vip and .XYZ …

In September, Donuts announced that for a limited time, they would make Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) Plus available as an enhancement to their legacy service. DPML Plus was to be available until December 31, …

This is a post where you can share your New gTLD domain name sales but with a twist! For every sale of yours you post you can also post another domain name for sale. (e.g. …

I have noticed a small trend in 2016 where people are trying to auction off and practically unload New gTLD domains with expensive renewals. It was easier to notice in short domains namely 1-letter domains. …

It is almost 3 years after New gTLDs came out and more than 18 months after the first .brands came out, how have brands made the move to the new extensions? How is this innovation …

In a transaction concluded last month, Donuts successfully acquired the .IRISH generic top-level domain (gTLD) from Dot-Irish LLC for an undisclosed amount.  This brings the total number of domains managed by Donuts to 198. Donuts …

GMO Registry, Inc. announced that .shop, the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over two months since .shop opened for business on September 26, 2016. On June 30, …

On December 13*, at 10:00 am Eastern Time .CLUB will be releasing approximately 9,300 NEW premium names into the registrar channel in the tiered premium offerings. These names include names that were previously registered by …