New gTLDs

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful consideration and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, has rejected the unsolicited proposal from Donuts Inc. to acquire Rightside’s …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, and ChopChop.domains is releasing the last installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. Here are the previous 9 installments: the number 7 …

In February of this year Donuts announced its newly minted “trusted notifier” program with the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”). It was the first arrangement of its kind in the domain name industry made …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.88 MB] the findings from its Phase 2 Global Consumer Research Survey. The key findings are listed below. Conducted by Nielsen, the study measured …

The Undeveloped.com New gTLD auction is underway with just 7 days left so the Undeveloped team shared the most undervalued names that they currently have in auction. The auction runs from the 20th June to …

Robert Monster, CEO of DigitalTown.com and Epik.com, made a lengthy comment (and then a few more smaller comments) on the article I wrote about the announcement of the new DigitalTown platform involving 11,000 .City domain …

DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC PINK: DGTW) today announced that it has acquired more than 11,000 .CITY domains for use with an international rollout of the DigitalTown’s flagship Smart City Platform and the Global Smart City Network. …

Donuts Inc., the largest New gTLD registry, today publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s entire registry of new generic top-level domains (New gTLDs) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash …

Undeveloped.com is having a New gTLD domain name auction. This is the second auction for the Undeveloped.com platform after the premium .com and ccTLD auction that ended last week. The auction runs from the 20th June to …

CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC), announced that it has contracted with UK Creative Ideas Limited (“UKCI”), the rights holder for the new Top-Level Domain (“TLD”) .ART, to be its exclusive backend registry service provider. .ART will …

Radix announced that their new gTLD .STORE made more than $1 million before close of general availability day 1, earlier this week. This figure includes revenue earned from premium names, sunrise and regural registration fees. …

.Club just released approximately 12,000 registry reserved .CLUB premium domain names into the registrar channel, including some names that have never been offered by the registrar channel before. This is the second time .CLUB has …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, and ChopChop.domains is releasing the 8th installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. Here are the previous eight installments: the number 7 …

A new website theatre.london, launched by London & Partners, will help to shine a spotlight on, not only West End shows, but also the scores of other performances taking place every evening at one of …