Domain Extensions

Craig Schwartz that is the Director of fTLD Registry Services, LLC sent a letter to Ms. Christine Willett, General Manager of the New gTLD Program at ICANN asking for an extension to the objection filing …

Starting January 13 Go Daddy started supporting .ca Internationalized Domain Names with French characters. This means French-Canadian individuals and businesses can now register the English and French versions of their domain name. The .ca registration …

The New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) send a letter complaining to ICANN about the numerous delays in the New gTLD program. The letter was sent on the 21st of December and was just published by …

ICANN’s last “new gTLD” Weekly Update for 2012 took a look back at everything that was accomplished this year. A significant progress moving the New gTLD Program forward was achieved. In 2013 New gTLD applications …

ICANN has collected approximately US$355 million of application fees from applicants for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in the New gTLD Program (net from pre-reveal withdrawals). The purpose of these application fees is to cover the …

ICANN announced that it selected the Swedish registry operator Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur (.SE) as the provider of Pre-Delegation Testing services for the new gTLD Program. Testing is done to verify that the new gTLD applicant …

The Prioritization Draw was held on December 17th 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application was assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used …

.fishing is the first contested gTLD to get a spot at the new GTLD prioritization draw. .fishing is contested by 2 applicants: United TLD Holdco Ltd. and Top Level Domain Holdings Limited Watch the live results …

.dnp got the first spot after the IDNs in the new GTLD prioritization draw. .play and .dog were drawn first but since these are contested they can’t get assigned a spot until all of their …

A Prioritization Draw is being held today 17 December 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application will be assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will …

Sedo has been consistently producing a quarterly market study since the 2nd quarter of 2009. There are some stats from before but these are not complete. I took all the reports from the past 3 …

Fabulous is NOT currently offering registration for a major gTLD like .biz and other gTLDs and ccTLDs like .us but is already ready to jump on the bandwagon to the new TLDs? Fabulous promised me …

Do we really need an .hiv new gTLD? No, we don’t! Sorry. DotHIV had collected funding of over $470,000 at the time of submitting the new gTLD application. I am sure they have spend and …

ICANN is opening a Public Comment Period for the draft Expired Registration Recovery Policy. This process including the reply period is scheduled to be completed 30th of November 2012. Members of the Internet Community are …