Domain Extensions

ICANN announced that 21 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 201 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the 21 new gTLDs: .NYC, .London, .Miami, .Vegas, .Black, .Vodka …

This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .camp, .education, .glass, .institute and .repair. The total Donuts EAP purchases from the first 3 EAP days is at about $76,400 …

Minds + Machines Group gave out a gTLD Launch Programme and Sales Channel Update: The Directors of Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) are pleased to provide an update on the launch programme of …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .Coffee, .House, .Florist, .International and .Solar. The most promising New gTLDs is probably .International and then .House. These 2 can have various types of domain …

The .fr TLD is young: the average age of a domain name under the .fr TLD is 3.8 years, according to Afnic. This month’s issue of the Report focuses on the age of domain names …

A couple of weeks back I wrote about the Premium domains that are offered by Donuts with renewals that range from $1,000 up to $1,600 depending on the registrar and how these are only suitable …

CentralNic Group, the internet platform business which earns revenues from the registration and renewal of domain names, has issued an update on generic top-level domains (gTLDs).CentralNic says that .ink gTLD will be available for trademark …

.CLUB Domains, LLC announced that the .CLUB* Land Rush period starts tomorrow, April 1, 2014.  Its Land Rush signals the 30-day priority period and the company has posted more than 12,000 suggested names at www.landrush.club. Early sales …

This is a post were anyone can post the best New gTLD domain name that they have bought so far. Their subjective favorite purchase. It has been about 2 months since the first New gTLD …

Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 3-17-14 to 3-23-14 were $1.904.435. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked …

According to ntldstats.com there are now 391,420 New gTLD domain names in 49 New gTLD strings. These numbers only include domain names that are in the zone files. i.e. they have nameservers. I estimate that …

UK registry Nominet is now offering registrars the option of locking high-value .uk domains at the registry level, adding an additional level of security against Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. The Domain Lock tool inserts …

This past week the following 5 Donuts New gTLDs entered general availability with EAP: .email, .solutions, .training, .support and .builders. The total Donuts EAP purchases from just the first 3 EAP days is at about …

At ICANN 49 in Singapore today Akram Atallah, president of ICANN‘s Global Domains Division (GDD) and Lucky Masilela, CEO of ZA Central Registry (ZACR) participated in a symbolic signing ceremony that allows the new gTLD …