New gTLDs

“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 …

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 …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-21-14 to 4-27-14 were $1.778.547. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .agency, .bargains, .boutique, .cheap and .zone. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $35,000 …

Eric Ludwick from What Box?, the company that has registered hundreds of domain names in the New gTLD sunrises using over 30 fake trademarks, is on the board of directors of the Domain Name Association …

The Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS) that is the system that provides all the New gTLD zone files is down for the past 36 hours. ICANN send an email yesterday informing CZDS users that there …

The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) are delighted to announce that following the private auctions held last week for .deals, .garden, .property and .yoga, the Company has secured the uncontested application rights …

The .club registry released an ad called “Invest in a great Domain Name!”. The ad was released last week and according to The Frager factor it is now being shown on TV. The ad description …

The domain name realestate.agency was purchased by someone from Texas on the 3rd day of Donuts Early Access Program (EAP) pricing. The domain was registered at Enom for about $4,800. This price includes a $1,200 …

General availability for the New gTLD .build starts today and anyone that cares about domaining should stay away. You should not support the same people that steal from domainers. Plan Bee, LLC, the .build registry, …

If you’ve been following .CLUB you probably know that they are now in the “Land Rush” period which began on April 1, 2014 and which ends on May 1, 2014.  But what is a “Land …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 4-13-14 to 4-20-14 were $1.982.736. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked Afternic/Godaddy …

This past week the following 3 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .farm, .codes and .viajes. Also Sedo announced some .club domain name sales. Some of the sales are difficult to find as …

The .Rich registry, I-Registry Ltd., has registered 16 .rich domains to a sister company of theirs called i-content Ltd. All domains are parked at Sedo and are for sale. It seems that more registries are following …