The City of New York has reserved roughly 400 neighborhood names for use by community groups to develop new online hubs for civic engagement, online organizing and information-sharing. Neighborhood names are now available and will …
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This Is Why .Club Became The Premiere Sponsor Of THE Domain Conference
Jeff Sass, .CLUB’s Chief Marketing Officer, wrote an article announcing the .club sponsorship of THE Domain Conference and explaining why the .club registry chose to sponsor the event. The conference is using a .club domain …
Read More »Rightside 2014 Results: Revenue Up 14%, 150,000 New gTLD Registrations
Rightside Group, Ltd. today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2014. “Rightside closed 2014 with a strong quarter of revenue growth across each area of our business. Additionally, …
Read More »Rightside Buys .NEWS Domain Name Extension
Rightside has bought the .NEWS domain name extension, to be released later this year. “The .NEWS extension will offer media outlets, journalists, radio and television personalities, and online news aggregators the opportunity to distinguish themselves …
Read More »1st Year .College Registrations Are Free For Trademark Holders, Brands, .edu & .ac.uk Domain Registrants
The XYZ registry announced the official launch schedule for the .College extension, which will enter its Sunrise phase on March 17. Let’s hope that .College will be different than .XYZ because I actually like the …
Read More »Starting Dot Passed The 10,000-Domain Threshold
iStarting Dot, the registry operator for new generic top-level domains (new gTLD) .BIO, .ARCHI & .SKI, announced that the company has achieved a milestone for a young registry operator in the gTLD space: this week …
Read More »NewYork.Cab Has A $11,500 Bid At Flippa But There Is A Catch
The domain name NewYork.Cab is at auction at Flippa with 2 days left. There have been 41 bids already and the domain name has a $11,500 bid but things are not so simple as they …
Read More »Jeffrey Sass of .Club: “We’re Asking the Wrong Questions”
Jeffrey Sass, CMO of .CLUB, wrote a very interesting article on CircleId called “We’re Asking the Wrong Questions”. Here are some of the points he made: “The story so far has been fairly predictable: registries …
Read More »Funniest Flippa Auction Ever Ends In A Few Hours: “New gtlds ruined me! IM BROKE!”
The funniest Flippa auction ever ends in a few hours and it it getting a few bids because people find it hilarious. This is the title of probably the funniest Flippa auction ever: “New gtlds …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Delivery, .Energy, .LGBT, .Casa, .Work
This week 5 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 0 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 1 strings enter the landrush phase. Afilias launches .LGBT on the 10th of February. Minds & Machines launches
Read More »DNA Survey: 85% Of People Type Domains Into Browsers & 60% Want More Domain Extensions
The Domain Name Association (DNA) announced the results of a recent global survey to ascertain Internet users’ attitudes toward new Internet domain-name extensions, such as “.club” and “.global,” that are being released through ICANN’s “New …
Read More »Donuts: 1.2 Million Domain Registrations Across 150 Extensions
Donuts Inc., the world’s largest registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), marked the one-year anniversary of general availability of new Internet identities, reporting that its 150 now live gTLDs are home to more than 1.2 …
Read More »Neustar 2014 Report: Revenue Up 6% & Expects More Growth In 2015
Neustar, Inc. announced results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2014 and provided guidance. Results for Fourth Quarter 2014 Compared to Fourth Quarter 2013 Revenue increased 6% to $252.4 million Marketing Services revenue increased 8% …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Delivery, .Energy
This week 0 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. 2 Donuts New gTLDs enters EAP General Availability on the 4th of …
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