Domain Extensions

.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 …

Donuts entered EAP general availability for the following 5 New gTLDs today: .Camp, .Education, .Glass, .Institute and .Repair. The most promising New gTLDs are probably .Education and then .Camp and .Repair. I expect that most …

Donuts launched a new “Featured Sites” webpage where it displays developed domain names with active websites on them. The webpage already features 12 Donuts New gTLD domain names that have been build in the past …

BRS Media, a .radio new gTLD applicant, submitted formal comments to ICANN regarding the community priority evaluation, from another .radio applicant EBU, for the .RADIO New gTLD. “It is our belief that in an attempt …

Beilong Zedata (Beijing) Data Technology Co., Ltd 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 …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced at ICANN 49 in Singapore that the number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that have been delegated now tops 175. Recently delegated gTLDs include …

Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) send out a press release today claiming that over 500,000 claims notices have been delivered. TMCH is providing protection to over 10,000 brands and businesses and over 28,000 trademarks have been recorded …

ICANN introduced the new Global Domains Division (GDD) portal. ICANN’s Global Domains Division (GDD) oversees generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and Web services, with the goal of having all of these pieces coming …