Domain Extensions

Nominet is warning registrars and registrants to be vigilant regarding misleading offers to secure the .uk version of their existing .co.uk domain name. It would be very useful if a list of the known misleading …

ICANN announced that on January 18th, 16 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 107 new gTLD strings. The 16 new gTLDs are: .CLUB, .BUILD, .PICS, .PINK, .LUXURY, .PHOTO, .GIFT,.网络 (xn--io0a7i) – Chinese …

Sedo just send me an email with the personalized subject: “Zournas.guru – New Domain Extensions are here” Well, all I could say when I saw the email was: “No.thanks!” Yesterday I posted my New gTLD …

I created a ranking system for all gTLDs, old and new, so I can place the new gTLDs in this ranking system as they come out. This way I can have a reference as to …

The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) created a dedicated page on which monthly updates on the statistics of the Clearinghouse will be published. So far 23.024 marks have been submitted from 82 countries and 108 jurisdictions. 88,7% …

.CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD), announced today that its new “.CLUB” domain has been delegated by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …

The ICANN Business Constituency sent a letter to the New gTLD Program Committee on December 20th 2013 asking them to reconsider allowing both singular and plural forms of the same TLD string. The ICANN Business …

Symantec, a computer security, antivirus, backup and SSL provider, wrote an article about the effect that new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) will have on SSL certificates. There are already many new gTLDs that have been …

At 31 December 2013 the .fr TLD represented 2,716,027 domain names, an increase of 8.2% in 2013. Although this performance remains higher than the average for the world market (7.1 % according to our estimates), …

Nokia Normandy, the company’s first and only Android smartphone is about to be released. It is likely that Nokia may launch its first Android smartphone during MWC in March. Normandy is a low-cost smartphone that would …

During ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires, the Governmental Advisory Committee issued further advice to the ICANN Board of Directors regarding New gTLD applications. GAC Advice was intended to identify applications that are “problematic,” e.g., that …

Nominet announced today that it plans to update the .uk domain name registration policy so that it can suspend or de-register .uk domain names that promote serious sexual offenses. Although Nominet says that it will …

Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) provided an update on the progress of its uncontested gTLD applications, Minds + Machines’ OPEN Priority Reservation programme and the private auction process. Progress of uncontested TLDH and client …

ICANN announced that on January 14th, 8 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 91 new gTLD strings. The 8 new gTLDs are .ZONE, .CHEAP, .MARKETING, .DEMOCRAT, .SOCIAL, .AGENCY, .MODA and .DANCE. Check …