Domain Extensions

ICANN opened a comment period today, 11 February 2014, and until 11 March 2014 to solicit community input regarding a proposed review mechanism to address perceived inconsistent Expert Determinations in the String Confusion Objection process …

Last week 7 new gTLD domain names sold for $12,539,99 a piece in the first few hours and then something remarkable happened. The domain name cree.lighting was registered for $12,500 at Name.com. What was remarkable …

AspireVeloTech, known as the world’s largest dealer of Chris King bicycle components, bought one of the very first top level domains (TLD’s) that became available on February 5th. The company bought AVT.bike when general availability …

The number of domain name registrations from the 14 first Donuts New gTLDs surpassed 50000 yesterday. The zone file domain name total is actually 49980 but zone files don’t include domain names without nameservers so …

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. …