The .wiki registry published a guide regarding the .wiki New gTLD landrush. The .wiki Sunrise phase ended this week. On May 8th, .wiki will enter Landrush, the phase in which motivated buyers can apply for …
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New gTLD First Auctions Confirmed (A lot of the contested New gTLDs will be live in 2015)
ICANN has updated the Auction Schedule for New gTLD applicants with strings in contention sets. Here are the auction dates for some of the more important New gTLDs: .Buy, .Online, .Live: 9 July 2014 .Ltd, …
Read More »34 more New gTLDs were delegated: .FINANCE, .MOSCOW, .TAX, .BLACKFRIDAY, .PARIS
ICANN announced that 34 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 259 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the 34 new gTLDs: .FITNESS, .FINANCE, .MOSCOW, .TAX, .BLACKFRIDAY, .PARIS …
Read More ».nyc Enters First Phase of Launch With 1st Priority Given To NYC businesses With Trademarks
This week, the City of New York and Neustar launched the first phase of availability for the new .nyc web address. The “Sunrise” phase gives NYC businesses with trademarks first priority in claiming their .nyc …
Read More »CentralNic Group PLC Report: Net revenue increased by 4% to £3.05 million in 2013
CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), the owner and manager of an internet distribution platform which derives a revenue share from sales of internet domain names into markets across the world, today announces its audited results for the …
Read More ».Club Gets 25,411 Registrations On Day 1 And Now Ranks 6th Among New gTLDs
.Club general availability started today. .Club domain name registrations jumped from 370 yesterday to 25,781 registrations today adding 25,411 domain names in the first few hours of general availability. This was the second best New …
Read More ».Club launched today… Did you get any .club domain names?
.Club general availability started today. .Club was and still is one of my favorite new gtlds but I was not able to register any so far. It seems that all the good one word .club …
Read More ».Rich attempts to reboot because of zero interest
I-REGISTRY Ltd., the London company that runs the .Rich New gTLD, send out a press release today in attempt to reboot it’s New gTLD. .Rich launched in April 10th and only got 21 sunrise registrations. …
Read More »Architelos Announces Flat Rate NameSentry Pricing For New gTLDs Starting at $389
Architelos announced a flat rate NameSentry pricing for new gTLDs today: Architelos, Inc., the leading provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, announced a flat rate pricing for its NameSentry automated abuse …
Read More »Starting Dot’s New gTLDs: .SKI, .ARCHI, .BIO and .IMMO (in contention)
Founded in October 2011 in Paris, Starting Dot is a new registry business developing a portfolio of 4 new Top Level Domain names (TLDs) dedicated to major sectors: .SKI, .IMMO (in contention), .ARCHI and .BIO. …
Read More »6654 premium .club domains for sale at Sedo (strip.club, country.club, yacht.club)
The .club registry has partnered with Sedo to offer their reserved premium .club domain names. Sedo is currently offering 6654 .club domains. I visited a few of the description pages at Sedo and all description …
Read More »Famous Four Media Signs Its 100th Accredited Registrar
Famous Four Media, the registry operator for .BID, .TRADE, .WEBCAM and some 54 other Top Level Domains, has signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Registrars are the only way through which end-users of domain names …
Read More »Donuts is fighting the fake trademarks by making them all premium!
“What Box Holdings“, “Plan Bee LLC” and “Thomas A. Brackey II” have been using fake trademarks to buy New gTLD domain names in sunrise. I was wondering why Donuts was not doing anything to fight …
Read More »New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announces .NYC domain name sunrise phase
Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced the start of the first “sunrise” phase of the roll-out of the .nyc web address, beginning a five-month countdown towards the full-scale public launch in October 2014. The new …
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