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 …
Read More »Rob.Monster was registered today and it is for sale!
.Monster, one of the most ridiculous New gTLD extensions, launched today by the XYZ registry. Nobody really cared about these domains except than to get a good laugh especially since the registry chose April Fools’ …
Read More »171,867 .top domains drop in a day! Has the big .Top domain name crash started?
5.5% of all .top domain names were removed from zone files today. Has the big .Top domain name crash started? According to namestat.org 171,867 domains were removed from zone files yesterday leaving the .top extension …
Read More »Domains grow 3.7% to 348 million across all TLDs in 2018
CENTR published its CENTRstats Global TLD Report quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). Global Market The global TLD market is estimated …
Read More »Radix revenue grows by over 30% in 2018
Radix announced today that it grossed $16.95M in total revenue in 2018, a 30% rise over its revenue in 2017. The registry’s net profit also grew by 45.6% in comparison to last year. Overall, Q4 …
Read More ».Dev domains are for idiots!
I debated between a few titles for this post but decided that the worst one is best suited to wake some people up. The other title I thought was “there are zero (0) good .dev …
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