New gTLDs

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), was awarded with the Best Marketing by a New gTLD trophy for 2014 at Brandma’s China New gTLD Roadshow. In the presentation, on …

Frank Schilling left a comment on a .realtor post at thedomains.com talking about what he thinks is the best New gTLD string related to real estate and property. Of course he thought the his company’s …

Chick-fil-A, the American fast food restaurant chain, bought 8 new .restaurant domain names costing thousands of dollars each. Waste of money, if you ask me. .Restaurant, a New gTLD launched by Donuts, is out of …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs launched: .melbourne. Melbourne’s population is 4,347,955. .Melbourne got

Minds + Machines and the registrar Hexonet mistakenly priced a lot of premium domains and those domains were sold at cheap standard prices. The problem affects domains registered in the past 2 months such as …

A new forum dedicated to New gTLDs was launched at gTLD.link. The new domain name forum was created by domainers Phil Harris and Chad Wright. The New gTLD domain forum was launched before 3 weeks and …

ICANN plans to release an authorization process by 1 December that no longer requires Registry operators to reserve all number/letter (2a), letter/number (a2), or number/number (22) New gTLD domain names at the second-level. This category …

Go Daddy published an article called “Take your next great idea (or not) to the domain aftermarket”. The article talks about what you can do with the domain names you have and don’t need. There …

At month-end September, the contribution of “traditional” generic TLDs (.com, .biz, .info, etc.) to net market growth in 2014 was 45% against 75% in March 2014. The October 2014 edition of the Afnic Industry Report …

Following a 90-day public consultation period, ICANN is implementing a solution to allow new gTLD registries to release names from their Second-level Domain (SLD) Block Lists while complying with all Rights Protection Mechanism requirements. ICANN …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that following the recent series of private auctions, the Company has gained, in aggregate, cash of approximately $8.4 million through withdrawing its applications on .book, .cloud, .dog, .site, …

Donuts and its New Domain Names were showcased on the television show Cycle America, filmed on-location in September at Interbike in Las Vegas. The Annual Interbike International Bicycle Exposition is “where the bicycle industry gathers …

Rightside Group, Ltd. announced it is partnering with Bandzoogle, a company whose technology platform is used by over 20,000 bands and musicians to power their websites and online stores. Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level …

This week 5 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 1 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 2 strings enter the landrush phase. On the 11th of November an Australian geo New gTLDs is launching: …