New gTLDs

The domain namess ibm.ventures and ibm.guru were suspended on the 12th of February after the URS complaint by IBM. That was just 6 days after the URS complaint by IBM at the National Arbitration Forum …

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD Registry Operators. All new gTLD Registry Operators are required to regularly deposit a backup copy of …

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), S.A. has filed yet another URS complaint on a New gTLD domain name today. This time a URS complaint was filed for the domain name bbva.ventures. On the 19th of …

The number of domain name registrations from the 21 first Donuts New gTLDs surpassed 135000 yesterday. The number does not include domain names without nameservers so the number is certain to be higher. .Guru is …

BBC had an article yesterday debating the need of a New gTLD for England: .England. Scotland will have its New gTLD .scot this summer and the city of London will have it’s own in a …

ICANN announced that 6 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 150 new gTLD strings. The 6 new gTLDs are: .XYZ, .WIKI, .NEUSTAR, .MANGO, .QPON, .بازار (xn--mgbab2bd) – Arabic for “bazaar/bazar” Check out …

Here is short interview from James Trevino that is the Founder/President/CEO of .VEGAS New gTLd. The interview first appeared in the .vegas official website. What drew me to the domain name field: A venture investment …

2 new URS complaints were filed at the National Arbitration Forum for New gTLD domain names: aeropostale.clothing (filed on the 17th of February) bbva.guru (filed on the 19th of February) The first ever URS complaint …

GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry, Inc. today announced the opening of new geographic top-level domain, .nagoya. In the first stage of the launch, application is open exclusively to trademark holders to protect both trademark …

Top Level Design, LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .wiki, has selected NameJet, the leading domain name auction platform, to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions and help with future premium auctions. …

The CEO of London & Partners, London’s official promotional agency (and the parent company of Dot London Domains Ltd, the applicant of .london gTLD), Gordon Innes, wrote a letter to ICANN expressing some concerns about …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 4 New gTLDs today: .diamonds, .enterprises, .tips, .voyage The following 7 New gTLDs are out of the EAP pricing and into the real general availability today: .construction, …

This past week the following 7 New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .construction, .contractors, .directory, .kitchen, .land, .technology and .today. So this week another 2 New gTLD domain names were sold for 5 figures …

With the introduction of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) registrars are obligated to send whois verification emails to all domain name registrants. Inaccurate contact data may result in the suspension or termination of a …