Neustar, Inc. announced it has acquired Bombora Technologies Pty Ltd (Bombora), based in Australia, for AUD $118.5 million, or approximately USD $86.9 million. Bombora and its subsidiaries, which include ARI Registry Services, provide registry services for …
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XYZ Registry Is Running A Parallel .COM & .XYZ Domain Registration Contest
Think you can register the best .COM or .XYZ domain name and win $1,000? Then you can take The Challenge at TheChallenge.xyz while you hand-register the best domains you can find and submit your entries …
Read More »Minds + Machines To Register 30,000 Of Its Premium Domains Under “Emerald Names”
Minds + Machines Group Limited provided an update of its operations for Q2 2015. The Company’s unaudited interim results for the six months to 30 June 2015 will be published in September 2015. Antony Van …
Read More »40+ Pioneers Signed On For .TECH By Radix – General Availability Starts On August 5th
Radix, announced leading pioneers for .tech as it entered the Early Access Phase (29th July) at 16:00 UTC. Radix has switched from Landrush to the EAP model, for its latest batch of new TLDs. EAP …
Read More »Chinese Domaining Masterclass: “The Number Seven”
TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, is releasing the first installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. In January 2015, TLD Registry presented …
Read More »Premium .London Domain Auction: All Domains Have Bids, Rooms.London Is At 5,100 GBP
The premium .London auction featuring 50 .London domain names is underway and already one domain is over the 5,000 GBP mark and 3 are in 4 figures. With more than a week left in the …
Read More »This is How Google Handles New Top Level Domains
With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), Google would like to give some insight into how these are handled in Google’s search. They have heard and seen questions and misconceptions about …
Read More »Domain Name Association Launches DNA University
Domain Name Association (DNA) announced it is launching DNA University to support the domain name industry. One of the first initiatives of the DNA University will be to roll out a webinar series that will …
Read More »Rightside’s Official Statement On Shutting Down Bloomberg.Market
Rightside issued an official statement today explaining their general view on New TLDs and why they shut of the fictitious website at Bloomberg.Market per their standard operating procedures. Here is the statement:
Read More »Importance Of Having The Right Online Brand Identity (video)
Dot London was at the London Technology Week 2015 and it just published a video with some of the highlights of its presentation and the reactions. Watch the video here:
Read More »New .NYC Stats Tool: 9 Characters The Most Common Domain Length, “S” The Most Common 1st Character
Joel Natividad of Ontondia.com put together a dotNYC Explorer based on information on .nyc registrants provided by DoITT, the city agency with oversight of the .nyc TLD. Take a look at Beta.nyc. (Unfortunately the site …
Read More »Minds + Machines Announces .Law Strategic Partnership – General Availability Starts October 12, 2015
Minds + Machines today announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world’s largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain “.law” across ALM’s …
Read More »50 Premium .London Domains To Be Auctioned For Charity (cars.london, spa.london, gallery.london)
50 of London’s most-wanted premium internet domain names are to be auctioned off to give Londoners a unique chance to own sought after premium domains and raise up to £50,000 for charities across the capital. …
Read More »Richard Tindal Of Donuts: .Photography Has A 72% Renewal Rate, 55% Of Registrants Are From Outside The US
ARI Registry Services is doing a series of TLD applicant interviews. The latest interview features Richard Tindal, Co-Founder and COO, Donuts Inc., that talks about the .photography TLD and how to build a strategy for …
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