New gTLDs

Radix announced that it has made one-time premium name sales of more than $137K since August 2018. These one-time sales were made through domain marketplace SEDO and via top registrar partners. Names that fetched maximum …

Donuts Inc. announced the launch of the www.travel.domains website, with features to enable travel organizations, enthusiasts and industry professionals to browse, discover and purchase  travel domains from its TLD portfolio. Donuts acquired the .TRAVEL domain …

.Page domain names entered General Availability yesterday. Google is the owner of this new extension. The .page launch was not even remotely close to how successful the .app launch was. .App is another Google new …

Donuts Inc. announced that Akram J. Atallah will assume the role of chief executive officer, effective November 12, 2018. Current CEO Bruce Jaffe is stepping down and will continue to act as a senior advisor …

Donuts is increasing the cost of its Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) service. DPML is brand protection service designed for trademark owners. DPML is a service that allows trademark owners to protect their marks and …

Dominion Registries, the registry of the new extension .HOMES, will be removing the current restrictive Nexus eligibility requirements. Anyone will be able to register or acquire available General Availability (GA) or premium names starting 14 …

.CHARITY domains, a Donuts Inc. new extension, entered general availability yesterday. According to Namestat.org there are 839 .charity domains registered today. There were 307 before general availability started including some registry domains, sunrise domains and …

MMX is running a domain hack auction that will overlap with the MERGE conference. Some domains, like e.g. channel.surf, I would personally not categorize as hacks. The 7-day public auctions are on Namejet. There are …

Donuts Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Abry Partners, a leading private equity firm. Terms and timing of the agreement were not disclosed. Donuts holds the world’s …

4 years have passed since .GLOBAL was launched. Ever since the launch, .GLOBAL has seen steady growth rate. It is currently standing at about 43,000 registered domain names. You can see all domain name sales from the .global registry …

GMO Registry announced that .tokyo (https://hello.tokyo/en), the Top Level Domain (hereafter “TLD”) representing Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over 4 years since .tokyo opened for business …

Inc. magazine revealed that Fort Lauderdale based .CLUB Domains, LLC is No. 1164 on its 37th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look …

Donuts offered some insights about their premium domain names. The only insight I got, and that comes as no surprise, is that people have been and are (always) registering bad domains. Donuts is generally characterizing …

PeopleBrowsr announced the sale of its BestTLD Pty Ltd subsidiary to The Best SAS, a Paris based company led by President, Cyril Fremont. BestTLD Pty Ltd owns the .Best top level domain. It has distribution …