New gTLDs

I just discovered an old video that explains New gTLDs. The video was released by FairWinds Partners on beyondthedot.com that was just updated today. The youtube.com description is: So, you want to learn about what’s …

TLD Registry is celebrating yesterday’s Google announcement of a long-awaited and highly anticipated change that took place at Gmail: The “client-side” implementation of non-Latin, character-based email. While the world’s relevant standards-setting body, the Internet Engineering …

FairWinds Partners released today the newly updated online resource at beyondthedot.com to help familiarize businesses and consumers with new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). “Clients have told us that the Beyond the Dot site a great …

GMO Registry announced the opening of the .yokohama Landrush Priority Registration period. Today marks the first time that .yokohama will be available to the general public for registration. .yokohama is a domain representing the City …

.London Priority Period ended on the 31st of July and was a bloody mess as the English say. In the priority period, that was kind of like a landrush with an extra twist, where anybody …

.NYC new extension entered landrush yesterday and New York’s new mayor Bill de Blasio is endorsing the New gTLD. “This is a chance for more New Yorkers to claim their piece of the City’s high-demand …

TLD Registry’s CEO Arto Isokoski and CMO Simon Cousins will be highlighted guest speakers at India’s inaugural World Domain Day. TLD Registry has released 2 new gTLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), …

This week 7 New gTLDs enter General Availability and another 4 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability. Today, the 4th of August .NYC enters the landrush phase. This will probably be the largest geo …

Today, 4th of August, .NYC enters the landrush phase. This will probably be the largest geo New gTLD in terms of the number of domain name registrations. Only people and businesses with a real New …

The .Mail New gTLD was stopped by ICANN’s “Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework”. .Mail is the 3rd New gTLD after .Home and .Corp that was stopped by ICANN because of collisions. This is great news …

Last week I wrote about a Go Daddy customer that was complaining that he registered 2 .xyz domains in June and Go Daddy removed the 2 domains from his account in July and registered the …

Here are the domain name registration results of this week’s 4 New gTLD launches: Yesterday 30th of July 4 Donuts New gTLDs went out of the EAP pricing and into the real (reg fee) general …

I haven’t done this post since May and since then ICANN has announced that 87 New gTLDs have been delegated for a total of 346 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important …

ICANN published today the latest Community Priority Evaluation results. New gTLD Applicant Interlink Co., Ltd. prevailed in a community priority evaluation for the New gTLD .Osaka getting 15 out of the maximum 16 points. Osaka …