New gTLDs

.VIP domain names launch today, 17 May 2016, at 16:00 UTC. The time for general availability is 11:00 EST and 24:00 for Beijing, China. .VIP is a Minds + Machines new domain extension and this is …

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, paid over 19 million dollars for the .blog registry and will offer the .blog domain extensions through its subsidiary, Knock Knock, WHOIS There (KKWT), starting later this year. The …

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced that it secured the rights to oversee and operate the sale and registration of .blog domain names. WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that Automattic is …

It has been 2 years since .Club was launched. More than 720,000 .club have been sold so far to more than 132,000 unique registrants from 130 countries. According to the .club registry there are more …

ChopChop Domains published a video interview with Zhiqiang ‘Sky’ Wei 魏志强, VP of EJEE Group Holdings, operator of domain.cn. EJEE Group Holdings offices are located in Beijing China. Domain.cn, known as the city of domains, …

The .Mom domain extension launched yesterday by Uniregistry that is owned by Frank Schilling. In less than 24 hours after general availability a Greek registrant contacted no other than Frank Schilling to sell him a …

Rightside, a new domain name extension registry, today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016 starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Rightside believes .GAMES …

Hexonet starts offering Donuts and Rightside backorders for dropping domain names on May 1, 2016. The backorder service will be catching about 400 New gTLDs in total. HEXONET will continue to add backordering for even …

Amazon attempts to make one, but ultimately all, of its new extensions restricted despite ICANN’s ban on closed generic TLDs. Amazon Registry Services, Inc., the Registry Operator of .MOI TLD, has filed to ICANN a …

.Tech, the New gTLD from Radix registry, reached 100,000 domain name registrations this morning. According to NameStat .tech is the 22nd new extension in terms of domain name registrations. Radix has several partners like GoDaddy, …

Dominion Registries, the .Homes domain name registry, has made it clear that domain name investors are not invited in their namespace. But at the same time the registry has reserved numerous premium domain names that …

The latest edition of the bi-monthly CSC® Digital Brand Services’ New gTLD Utilization Report shows both the number of .brands and generic TLDs in the Alexa Top 1M increasing by over 30% since the February …

Dominion Registries, the .homes registry, announced today that a special Request for Proposal (RFP) period has opened for a group of premium .Homes domain names. The domain names are being considered for release for registration …

The .Club registry launched a new domain name availability dashboard that has some very interesting stats on both sold and available .club domain names. Dashboard is designed to make it easier for domain investors to …