New gTLDs

ICANN announced today the upcoming launch of the new Global Domains Division (GDD) Portal, which is anticipated to go live in mid-March 2014. This new tool provides a centralized location for new gTLD Registry Operators …

Easyspace, one of the UK’s leading ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web hosting companies, will be offering the new .Club domain name extension after signing a Registry-Registrar agreement with .CLUB Domains, LLC. In pre-registrations …

I checked out the zone files from 4 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and went into general availability (Early Access Program (EAP)) on Wednesday and here are the results. Zone files only include domain names …

Neustar, the .biz and .us registry, launched what is one of the very first .brand New gTLDs: .neustar. The website is located at nic.neustar. Neustar currently intends for the .neustar gTLD to be used exclusively …

Since the end of January, Donuts has launched 25 new gTLDs that have entered the general availability (GA) phase, and another 4 are in the Early Access Program (EAP) GA. Uniregistry has launched 2 new …

I noticed that a UDRP complaint was filed for the domain name AirtelGuru.com. Although this seems like the regular UDRP complaint, I am not sure that it is. That is because with the introduction of …

Virgin and Richard Branson filed 4 URS complaints on 5 different New gTLD domain names in the past couple of days: richardbranson.holdings – richardbranson.ventures virgingalactic.guru virginaustralia.holdings branson.guru Virgin had a DPML block for the term “Virgin” …

ICANN did a blog post today reassuring European Registrars about the Data Retention Specification of 2013 RAA. Some people from the US may not understand how big the problem is here in the EU. The …

The first 2 New gTLDs launched by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry on Tuesday. Most notably Go Daddy, the world number 1 registrar,  bought GoDaddy.sexy and GoDaddy.tattoo. Go Daddy registered godaddy.sexy in sunrise but got GoDaddy.tattoo during …

Associated Press run an article about the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The world’s largest mobile phone trade show was held in Barcelona, Spain, on February 26 and 27, 2014. Fadi Chehade, head of …

The .tattoo and .sexy launch made a lot of people angry. The whois problem (that has partially been resolved but I will get to this later) and the fact that most of the good domains …

This past week the following 4 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .tips, .diamonds, .voyage and .enterprises. This week no New gTLD domain name was sold for 5-figures in the Early Access Program (EAP). …

On Monday I did a post on sunrise results for .diamonds, .enterprises, .voyage and .tips new gTLDs. I also noticed some funny, strange and more disturbingly some shady domain name registrations. As usual there was …

ICANN announced that 10 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 160 new gTLD strings. The 10 new gTLDs are: .CHRISTMAS, .PUB ,.ACTOR ,.SUPPLIES ,.FISH, .VACATIONS, .INDUSTRIES, .SUPPLY, .дети (xn--d1acj3b) – Russian for “kids/deti”, .삼성 …