New gTLDs

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 …

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 …

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 …

.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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

.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 …

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 …

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 …

Starting October 1, .CLUB will no longer recapture and reserve deleting domain names as the registry As you may know, in the past, as a registry .club has often recovered certain valuable deleting names and reserved …

.GLOBAL domains turned 2 this month. .Global was launched 9 September 2014. The number of premium domains sold is 253. The average sales price per premium domain sold is $ 2,751 USD. 8189 domain are …

Rightside had a .Games and .Live auction on Namejet but people had doubts about what the domain name renewal prices are. Maybe that affected bidding. The auction included 15 reserved domain names and 11 of …

nTLDStats posted an Infographic with many interesting facts about the .shop launch. You can see the infographic below. Here are a few of the findings: 19,291 people registered one or more .shop domains within the …