This week no New gTLD enters General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 3 strings enter the landrush phase. Rightside has 2 New gTLDs entering EAP on the 17th of December: …
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.NYC Report: 3% Of Registrants Own 37% Of .NYC Domains, 36 Registrants Own 8,688 Domains (14%)
This is a follow up to my 1st .NYC report because now .nyc zone is more representative and reflects the true registration patterns of people of New York. There were 13,669 registrants that only bought …
Read More »One Degree World Will Launch More Than 1,300 Travel Websites On New gTLD Domain Names
One Degree World plans to launch more than 1,300 new travel related websites on New gTLD domain names. A few days back I wrote how global travel and entertainment company One Degree World launched their …
Read More ».Club Supports WordPress Sites at WordCamp Orlando
The .Club registry team traveled to Orlando last week to attend one of the biggest WordPress events in Florida, WordCamp Orlando. “As you probably know, WordPress is an amazingly powerful software platform for creating a great …
Read More »Release of Country and Territory Names Within .BMW & .MINI New gTLDs
I don’t know why ICANN bothered with any of rules on reserved domains in New gTLD contracts and agreements. One after the other all the reserved domains are released anyway. After the release of 2-character …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .Immo 5274, .Business 3292, .Software 3068, .Network 3055, .Pizza 1272, .Auction 1053
Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 6 New gTLD launches: 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of EAP and entered the real (reg-fee) General Availability on the 10th of …
Read More »One Degree World Launches First 8 New gTLD Travel Websites & Aims For 300
Global travel and entertainment company One Degree World launched the first 8 out of 300 partner portfolio websites. Websites are build on a series of newly released TLDs including .BUZZ, .NINJA and .VEGAS. “Launching the …
Read More »Highlights From Rightside Investor & Analyst Day at Nasdaq
Rightside Group, Ltd. hosted its first Investor & Analyst Day on Friday, December 5, at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City. The event featured presentations by eight members of Rightside’s management team, with in-depth …
Read More »Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) Stats: 43 ccTLDs, 35 gTLDs, 50+ New gTLDs
ICANN shared some data about the considerable progress made to deploy Internationalized Domain Names in the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone file. In 2010, hostnames used in the DNS were limited to a subset …
Read More ».Paris: 12,000 Purchased Domains Names
The .Paris registry announced that the .paris has been successful with 12,000 purchased domain names so far. “A week after the public opening , the new web address Paris has already surpassed the 12,000 websites …
Read More »Only 8,16% Of All .Guru Domains Have Been Renewed So Far – Will This Reach 80% In 2 Months?
Only 8,16% of all 70k registered .guru domains have been renewed so far, 2 months before a lot of domains start expiring. As expected EAP renewal rate is higher. Of course most people wait until …
Read More »TLD Registry & Right Of The Dot Partner To Offer Chinese Domains To Western Audience
TLD Registry Ltd, the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, today announced a partnership agreement with Internet advising and consulting firm, RightoftheDot, LLC (ROTD). “ROTD …
Read More »Symantec Will Verify .Bank & .Insurance Generic Top-Level Domains
fTLD Registry Services, LLC announced an agreement with Symantec Corporation to provide verification services for the “.bank” and “.insurance” generic top-level domains. In this role, Symantec will add a layer of protection to the new …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Launch Review: .Pizza, .Network, .Business, .Auction, .Software
This week 6 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. 4 Donuts New gTLDs are out of EAP and enter the real …
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