New gTLDs

ICANN’s new infographic provides a high-level explanation of the Rights Protection Mechanisms that Trademark holders and their representatives can use to combat infringement during the Domain Name System expansion. New gTLD Program Rights Protection Mechanisms …

Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, maintained its market leading position in 2013, according to the Top 100 Domain Sales Chart as published by the domain industry publication, DN Journal.  With 34 …

An exclusive joint partnership has been announced between Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC to provide live auctioneer and live online auction services for premium domains in new TLD extensions that are being launched over the …

Demand Media, Inc. (NYSE: DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the …

ICANN announced that on January 8th, 1 more New gTLD was delegated for a total of 83 new gTLD strings. .BERLIN New gTLD was delegated and is now located at http://nic.berlin. Check out the Launch …

Today auctions.xyz sold at Namejet for $310 in what was an Advance Auction. The auction only had 5 bids from 4 bidders. The winning bidder won with a bid it made over a month ago: …

.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, will be offering “yourname.club” Web addresses to clubs, membership organizations, affinity and …

From November 2013 to June 2015 the internet landscape will change as 617 new gTLDs (generic top level domains) will go live. To give you an overview European Domain Centre has created an infographic which …

I read in Domain Gang the NamesCon 2014 is now a SOLD OUT domain conference. So the competition that Flippa is running offering a free ticket worth $600 to NamesCon 2014 is something that latecomers …

ICANN announced that on January 3rd, 6 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 82 new gTLD strings: DATE STRING REGISTRY 3 January 2014 集团 (xn--3bst00m) – Chinese for “group” Eagle Horizon Limited …

ICANN announced that on January 2nd, 3 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 76 new gTLD strings: DATE STRING REGISTRY 2 January 2014 .EMAIL Spring Madison, LLC 2 January 2014 .IMMOBILIEN United …

Juan Diego Calle that is the founder and CEO at .CO Internet SAS posted an article at the Go.Co blog. I more or less agree with his post. He asked a question: “In the next …

ICANN opened today a comment period for New gTLD Auction Rules. The purpose is to gather community input regarding the detailed rules and processes for Auctions to resolve string contention sets in the New gTLD …

ICANN Ombudsman has received a number of complaints about the results received from the dispute resolution providers in the new gTLD applications. He replied to these complaints and he said that the real problem is …