New gTLDs

Following .Security and .Protection the XYZ registry, announced that the .Theatre New gTLD will be joining the XYZ family. This is the 3rd announcement about a new extension in 3 days for XYZ. The XYZ …

The XYZ registry, announced that .Protection New gTLD will be joining the XYZ family. That is less than 24 hours after they announced the purchase of .Security from Symantec. .Protection was bought from Symantec too. …

The XYZ registry, announced that .Security will be joining the XYZ family. “Coming to you in late-2015, .Security will be the domain for security-related entities, professionals, and all companies that would like a secure and …

Brand protection agencies/registrars are having a blast with the new .sucks extension. They have the freedom to spend their client’s brand protection budget and they spend it as fast as they can. They spent almost …

The registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, TLD Registry had a very busy first quarter of 2015. Since late 2014, members of the global senior management team …

Vox Populi Registry Inc., the .Sucks New gTLD registry, made more than $2,633,800 from selling .sucks domains in Sunrise and the first few hours of General Availability. The registry made $2,178,000 USD (or probably more) …

The Domain Name Association (DNA) has changed some of its board of directors in the past year or so and this change already shows the first positive signs. Although it is not an all new …

A new movie is again using a New gTLD domain name as a promotion tool. A few days back it was announced that Hunger Games is using the domain name TheHungerGames.Movie to promote the latest …

The original owner from Switzerland registered the domain name Top.Domains at the united-domains AG registrar on the 12th of March 2014. He paid $999 to buy it as this was/is a premium Donuts domain name. …

The latest Wix.com commercial starring Heidi Klum is another example of how to make a great TV ad relating to websites and domain names. I wrote about Wix.com a few months back after they aired …

Beginning last week, Donuts Inc., started releasing for registration 1.369 million previously reserved domain names. The domains were initially reserved because of collisions. The company is making these names available in batches each week between …

Afnic’s annual general meeting was held on June 12, 2015. On the same occasion, the association published its 2014 Activity report. For Afnic, 2014 in many ways was a year of opening, in every sense …

Yesterday I published the story of the domain names ads.porn and ads.adult that were deleted by the registry because of an administrative mistake had not put the domains on the reserved list. I searched to …

A reader named James complained that the .porn and .adult registry deleted 2 domains after he had successfully registered them for about 2 days. James pre-ordered the domain names and got them in General Availability …