Afilias today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Dot Global Domain Registry Limited in Dublin, the registry operator for the .GLOBAL Top Level Domain. With nearly 50,000 names under management, .GLOBAL is one of …
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.Club reduces prices on premium domain names
Twice a year .Club is making adjustments to their premium name inventory available at registrars around the world and they just released their latest update as noted on their blog. In order to make certain …
Read More »A few details on the $335,000 Free.Games sale
The sale of the domain name Free.Games was reported on Wednesday. The domain was sold by WebQuest for $335,000. The buyer is not yet known as the domain name is under whois privacy and nameservers …
Read More »No, we can not rename New gTLDs
New gTLDs are called New gTLDs. Period. This is the only way the industry can understand what we are talking about. All other people just calls everything “domains” or a few people call them “new …
Read More »Do you want more funding for your startup? Get a .com domain name!
People are looking for real numbers regarding domain names so here they are! This is proof based on real business numbers. Do you want more funding for your startup? Get a .com domain name! Simple …
Read More ».Amazon domain names are getting closer
So after years of going back and forth it seems that the .Amazon domain name are getting closer to coming live soon. It seems that ICANN just ignored its own rules and the governments of …
Read More »Global domain name growth slows down
Global domain name growth has slowed down during the first quarter of 2019. That is not a concern to me as growth is bound to slow down sometime, especially for New gTLDs. We have enough …
Read More ».Blog leaves Nominet for CentralNic
The .Blog domain name registry, owned by Automatic and WordPress, has decided to leave Nominet for CentralNic regarding registry backend services. .Blog was launched using Nominet but the registry has decided to switch to CentralNic …
Read More ».Gay domain names are coming later this year
Top Level Design, the .gay registry, is preparing for the launch of .gay domain names on October 11th, 2019. This past week, they convened an advisory council meeting within community members to better refine the …
Read More ».Club reports 2019 domain sales including Business.Club
The .Club registry reported their 2019 domain name sales so far including Business.Club that was sold for $60,936 at Names.Club. Business.Club is now the leading New gTLD sale of 2019. You can see all New …
Read More ».CLUB launches name blocking brand protection service
.CLUB Domains, LLC has launched the Trademark Sentry Unlimited Name Blocking Service, designed to offer qualified brands and trademark holders protection in the .CLUB namespace. The Unlimited Name Blocking Service (UNBS) protects a trademark from …
Read More »Constantine Roussos and DotMusic win the rights to .Music domains!!!
DotMusic Limited managed to win the exclusive rights to the .music extension and domain names outbidding 2 giants: Google and Amazon. There were originally 8 competitive applications in contention. The contention was resolved a few …
Read More »MMX revenue was up 5% in 2018 because of the ICM acquisition
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2018. It seems that 2018 was not really a good year for MMX as the acquisition of ICM for …
Read More »So Donuts lied and is now increasing renewals to 220 domain extensions
On April 1, 2019 Donuts announced that it will be changing standard prices for the majority of its TLDs. The changes will go into effect October 1, 2019. Until that time all registered domains may …
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