Domain Extensions

Architelos Inc. and Kurt Pritz announced a collaboration to provide advisory services to the new gTLDs applicants and registries. The duo aim to translate their clients’ strategic objectives into the successful pursuit and operation of …

The Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information from the United States Department of Commerce send a letter to ICANN, on April 2, stating United States government’s views on the USPS objections to the applications for …

Marking another milestone in the implementation of the community-developed New gTLD Program, ICANN today announced the selection of three geographically diverse emergency back-end registry operators, or EBEROs. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Neustar, …

ICANN and IBM negotiated the terms for a proposed statement of work for operation of the Sunrise and Trademark Claims services offered by the Trademark Clearinghouse. The New gTLD Program Committee has reviewed the terms …

Building upon last week’s release of results for the first 30 applications, ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set of applications with priority numbers 31-60. There are 25 applications in this second set …

This past week 21 new objections were filed at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center for new gTLD strings. The WIPO center received the objections on March 13, 2013 and these were posted on the …

28 objections were filed at the International Chamber of Commerce for new gTLD strings. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) received the objections on March 12 and 13, 2013 and these were posted on the ICC …

NameJet and Afternic have been selected to launch the new top level domain .BUILD. Together they will serve Auctions and Premium Sales of new TLD. Plan Bee LLC, the applicant for the new top level …

ICANN is providing the latest revision of the previously posted “Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement” for the community’s information and review. Clean [PDF, 458 KB] Redline [PDF, 455 KB] Summary of Changes [PDF, 155 KB] …

.CO registry announced the launch of Asian IDNs including Chinese, Japanese and Korean. With non-English speaking Internet users and content increasing, providing alternate languages for .CO domain names is expected for the registry and its …

I have been reading lately about the rebranding of the .pw ccTLD. The extension .pw is the country code top-level domain for Palau, an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean. The question in …

Today, March 27, 2013, Directi, Tucows and Namecheap formed an alliance to manage the .online registry by producing one single bid. There are three more applicants for the .online new gTLD string: I-REGISTRY Ltd., Niederlassung Deutschland from Germany …

HEXONET has temporarily disabled new registrations and domain transfers of the AdamsNames ccTLDs “.GD”, “.TC” and “.VG”.  Due to unprecedented circumstances explained below, this action is required until further notice. HEXONET Registrar Statement: 1.    As …

This past week 7 more new gTLDs applications were withdrawn and their status was updated at the ICANN New gTLD website. These 7 withdrawn applications bring the total of withdrawn gTLD applications to 33. Progressive …