New gTLDs

Today the “Freedom of Choice” advertising campaign launched by Donuts “to shake up the domain name space by shining the spotlight on the breadth and depth of new, creative choices now available in Internet naming.” …

Anti-Phishing Working Group, Inc. published the Global Phishing Survey “Trends and Domain Name Use in 1H2014“. This report examines all the phishing attacks detected in the first half of 2014 (January 1 to June 30). …

Rightside announced that on March 18 it will release certain two-character domains for each of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) in its portfolio, which includes such extensions as .SOCIAL and .ATTORNEY. These two-character domain names, …

Global registry services provider and poker fan Afilias announced that today is the start of the landrush period for the new “dot POKER” or .POKER top level domain. From March 10 through April 9, 2015, anyone may …

OpenSRS, the domain name reseller services division of Tucows, published a blog post called “What we have learned from selling 100,000 new gTLDs“. I found the post very interesting and so would you. The post …

The.Club registry published a video with 21 golf and country clubs that use .club domain names. The video was prepared for presentation at the CMAA World Conference and Club Business Expo (March 8-12, 2015). CMAA …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that the Company has gained, in aggregate, net proceeds of US$1.68 million (approximately £1.1 million) following the withdrawal of its applications for .app, .soccer, and .beauty. .app was settled …

Uniregistry just announced today that it now supports premium New gTLD domain name registrations and transfers from the Donuts and Rightside registries. Up until last week, that I last tried it, you couldn’t transfer a …

Connectingnyc.org published a status report doing an evaluation of the .nyc extension at its 6 month anniversary. The report has many interesting stats including the percentage of parked domains (74.27%), although I am not sure …

ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announced that .PORN and .ADULT are available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain …

.Cymru and .Wales sold over 5,000 domain names in the first 24 hours of general availability and more than a 1,000 domains in the first hour. New Welsh domain names – .cymru and .wales – …

Radix, a new gTLD registry, has reached an agreement with auction partners Tucows and Namecheap to assume full ownership and operation of the .online TLD. Radix has already launched many new gTLDs such as .website, …

Christopher Hofman, founder of the  European Domain Centre, published an infographic showing all domain name extensions. It starts in 1985 with .com and .edu and ends 30 years later, in 2015, with extensions such as …

Google won today the auction for the .APP extension. Google paid $25 million dollars for the right to sell the .APP new domains. I wish Google good luck on getting their money back ($25,001,000 was …