New gTLDs

Rolf Larsen, founder and CEO of dot GLOBAL, wrote an article on “Innovation Insights” of Wired.com. Some people will not like what I have to say about the article, including Rolf. These kind of articles …

The National Association of Realtors launches .REALTOR today October 23 offering 500,000 domains to its members but geographic, generic terms and initials are not available. For example if you are named John Cooper Smith you …

On 22 October 2014, an Auction conducted by ICANN’s authorized Auction service provider, Power Auctions LLC, was held to resolve string contention sets for three new generic Top-level Domain (gTLD) strings; SALON, SPOT, and REALTY. …

Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s first 5 New gTLD launches: One Donuts New gTLD went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general availability …

Arto Isokoski is CEO of TLD Registry, operator of two new gTLD IDNs in Chinese, .在线 (Chinese Online) and, .中文网 (Chinese Website) is featured on page 10 of the October edition of the domain industry’s IoN …

.NYC launched on Wednesday the 8th of October. I wanted to find who bought what domains and how many domain names were bought by each registrant. .NYC didn’t get the results some people were expecting …

Here are the results of the latest Law Times online poll. According to the poll, the majority of respondents aren’t too eager to register a .lawyer or a .attorney domain name for their websites. 83% …

Bluehost is turning Pink this entire month. October is the month for breast cancer awareness and Bluehost is running a special campaign for it on an alternate URL www.pink.host, pink being the color of solidarity …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability, no New gTLD enters the EAP General Availability and no string enters the landrush phase. Rightside enters general availability for 4 of its extensions on the 22nd …

During ICANN 51 in Los Angeles on the 16th of October the ICANN Board decided the introduction of 2-character domain names in the New gTLD namespace. ICANN decided that the proposed registry service for the …

CENTR, the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries, has released its full report on the ICANN 51 Meeting held last week in Los Angeles. The report covers in detail the sessions held by …

Here are the domain name registration results from this week’s 2 New gTLD launches: .Okinawa entered general availability on the 14th of October. Okinawa prefecture is located in the southernmost of Japan. The purpose of …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME) announced today it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. “The diverse group of TLDs is expected to appeal …

IoN Magazine (Standing for ‘Internet of Names’) is a new magazine dedicated to the domain name system industry. It provides the latest news, views, reviews, a quintessential guide to ICANN conferences – and occasionally hopes …