New gTLDs

Apple Inc. bought 3 New gTLD domain names with different variations of the name of late Apple founder Steve Jobs. The domain names were registered this Friday February 7th 2014 at Apple’s brand protection registrar: Corporation …

Blacknight, an Irish based ICANN accredited domain registrar and hosting company, is furious at ICANN about the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) 2013. A blog post called “ICANT Cope With ICANN!” (with a URL that ends …

I noticed a strange bug today with Go Daddy pre-registrations for new gTLD domain names. It seems that all pre-registrations default to a whois record for a registrant called “Fast Fix (Services) Ltd”. I had …

ICANN announced that on February 4th and 5th, 12 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 134 new gTLD strings. The 12 new gTLDs are: . 移动 (xn--6frz82g) – Chinese for “mobile”, .BLUE, …

Aaron Stong made a comment today at DomainInvesting.com about buying x.ventures and then all hell broke loose. While in the previous 10 days only 20 one character New gTLD domain names had been registered in …

Go Daddy added a help section that addresses most of the questions that users have for New gTLD Pre Registration Refunds and Auctions. There is information to answer refund and auction questions for each pre-registration …

Donuts entered general availability for the following new gTLDs: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography. I checked out the zone files from the 7 new gTLDs that completed sunrise and I found 519 registered …

The first few hours of general availability had about 19,000 new gTLD domain name registrations but that trend didn’t continue in the next 24 hours. Despite Europe and Asia getting into action, the New gTLD …

Top Level Domain Holdings (LON:TLDH) shares are now up 4.46% (4.6% early in the morning) at the London Stock Exchange after the number of uncontested top level domains in which it has an interest rose …

An article called “British businesses fall victim to ‘cybersquatters’ amid domain name rollout” was posted on telegraph.co.uk. Although the article has some useful information it seems that on a few points it’s a bit off. …

Mason Cole, Donuts.co’s VP of Communications and Industry Relations, gave an interview on Vice.com. At the end of his interview he talked about new gTLD popularity and how it compares to the success of .com: …

Rightside™, the domain name services business of Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), today announced new partnerships with many of the world’s leading registrars to bring its portfolio of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) to market.  More than 40 …

Donuts entered general availability for the following new gTLDs: .camera .equipment .estate .gallery .graphics .lighting .photography. 7 new gTLD domains sold for $12,539,99 a piece in the past 24 hours and all of them were …

I know everyone says that new gTLDs bring more choice to the end users but it seems to me that end-users need to learn a lot more about domain names in general before jumping on …