New gTLDs

A newly formed entity owned by Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the auction, paying more than $10 million, to operate the .online registry for an undisclosed amount. Each of Radix, Tucows and NameCheap will contribute …

The Mayor’s London Enterprise Panel (LEP), the local enterprise partnership for London, has become the first Mayoral body to adopt a Dot London web domain, as it launched its new website this week – lep.london. …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has made further improvements to their New gTLD tool located at ChineseLandrush.com that helps non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in …

Teresa Boardman, a real estate broker, wrote a piece on inman.com on the New gTLD .realtor. I have been following the article for a week now and there are now over 50 comments from realtors. …

Following the recent signing of the .PORN and .ADULT registry contracts and after a lengthy negotiation with ICANN, ICM Registry, the .XXX registry, provided today its launch dates for .PORN and .ADULT. Starting March 1, …

Rightside Group, Ltd. today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2014. Total revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2014 increased 7% to $48.8 million compared to $45.5 million for …

521 people voted and the poll results are in: A third of domainer investors don’t buy New gTLD domains but the other 2 thirds of domainers do buy them. The first New gTLDs went live …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s first 5 New gTLD launches: On the 4th of November 3 South Africa geo New gTLDs launched: .capetown, .durban and .joburg. .Capetown got …

.Club announced at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in Miami the launch of Startup.club – a new program to help entrepreneurs get a .CLUB name and additional marketing and PR support for their business. With Startup.club .CLUB …

Rightside is launching .MARKET and .MORTGAGE today and they send out a press release. In the part of the press release that refers to the .mortgage launch it says: The launch of .MORTGAGE signifies an …

Donuts sent ICANN a comment  regarding the Community  Priority  Evaluation Application  by  GMO Registry,  Inc.  for  .Shop New gTLD. From what I have seen most community application have no merit, including the controversial .gay application. …

This week 5 New gTLDs enters General Availability, 3 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 4 strings enter the landrush phase. On the 4th of November 3 South Africa geo New gTLDs launched: …

Minds + Machines Group Limited provided an update today on its top-level domain launches. Minds + Machines seems to be satisfied with the revenue from its 10 New gTLDs so far but not with the …

Back in May 2014 I made a few suggestions to ICANN regarding the New gTLD zone file access. So when I got an email with the subject “About enhancements to CZDS” I was excited. The …