On October 1, 2016, Donuts announced upcoming price changes to its legacy DPML service and launched DPML Plus, a new and enhanced service for blocking trademarked terms, available for a limited time. In the original …
Read More »Delegation of new gTLDs did NOT degrade the security and stability of the root DNS system
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.74 MB] a draft report regarding the Continuous Data-Driven Analysis of Root Server System Stability (CDAR). The study examines the technical impact of the …
Read More »Results from the premium .NYC domain name auction (RealEstate.nyc $21,300)
Auctions.nyc and the City of New York had their first auction of premium .NYC domains. The auction featuring 20 domain names ended today on Namejet and 19 out of 20 domains were sold for a …
Read More »Buying a $3,000 per year New Domain and not registering the .COM for $10? Good luck!
Some people really don’t have a clue as it comes to domain names. Not a clue! And they will probably need all the luck in the world to get the right domain for the right …
Read More »Uniregistry released 3,636,440 domain names
Uniregistry released over 3.5 million previously withheld domain names across 19 TLDs, including 1.2 million premium names. The 3,636,440 domains were released today at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC). Most of the Uniregistry …
Read More ».Blog got more than 1,000 domain name registrations in sunrise
The .Blog registry announced that since beginning the Sunrise Phase on August 18th, more than 1,000 .blog domain sites have been activated. The number is higher than the expectations of the registry and is “signaling …
Read More »New gTLDs have no apparent effect on legacy gTLD registrations (except for the regional new gTLDs)
ICANN has published findings of a study exploring whether the New gTLD Program has affected competition in the domain name marketplace. The study shows that the New gTLD Program has had no apparent effect on legacy gTLD registration …
Read More »Anyone can register a .DOCTOR domain name but…
.DOCTOR domain names open for general availability October 26. Donuts is the registry for the extension. Donuts has encountered some questions about the availability of this name—specifically, whether it will be open for registrations to …
Read More ».Law has sold and verified 6,000 domain names to law professionals
Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the “.law” top-level domain, announced that since launching a year ago, .law has registered more than 6,000 first-choice and premium .law domain names. The registry also …
Read More »Rightside talks about New gTLD domain renewals (and re-renewals)
Since the first New gTLDs started launching in early 2014 and since two Rightside-owned gTLDs, .dance and .democrat, went live in May of 2014, the question many domain-industry watchers were asking is how popular new …
Read More »Connecting.nyc disappointed with the upcoming .NYC domain auctions
Connecting.nyc, is extremely disappointed with the New York City’s and Neustar’s decision to auction several premium .NYC domains starting with 20 domains later this month. Connecting.nyc Inc. is a NYS nonprofit education organization advancing the operation …
Read More ».NYC releases 3,800 premium domains costing between $250 and $5,000
.NYC domains are 2 years old and celebrate by releasing about 3,800 .nyc “premium domain names” today. Starting on Monday, October 10 at 3:00pm EDT, these .nyc premium domain names will be offered to the …
Read More »GoDaddy please stop the domain name bullying!
I went to GoDaddy to check the price of Sex.Shop. (.Shop launched getting more than 50,000 registrations.) I immediately saw that the price for Sex.shop was $139,999.99 per year but then I saw that many …
Read More »Sex.guru dropped and is available – Why?
The domain name sex.guru expired, was deleted and is now available to register. But why isn’t it taken yet? .Guru domains were a few of the first New gTLDs that launched in early 2014 by …
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