Domain Extensions

The Verisign .com monopoly reported a huge operating margin that was 65.4 percent for the first quarter of 2019. Instead of being grateful for this gift that it is being given they are asking for .com …

Namecheap is the first registrar that I see opposing the removal of price caps on several legacy top level domains such as .org, .info and .biz. (Also don’t forget .asia.) If you see any other …

DotMusic Limited managed to win the exclusive rights to the .music extension and domain names outbidding 2 giants: Google and Amazon. There were originally 8 competitive applications in contention. The contention was resolved a few …

Is blockchain back? Some people that have started registering loads of blockchain domains seem to believe it. I know that it was never gone but the big hype has subsided. The top 10 trending keywords …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) announced Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2018. It seems that 2018 was not really a good year for MMX as the acquisition of ICM for …

On April 1, 2019 Donuts announced that it will be changing standard prices for the majority of its TLDs. The changes will go into effect October 1, 2019. Until that time all registered domains may …

.Monster, one of the most ridiculous New gTLD extensions, launched today by the XYZ registry. Nobody really cared about these domains except than to get a good laugh especially since the registry chose April Fools’ …

5.5% of all .top domain names were removed from zone files today. Has the big .Top domain name crash started? According to namestat.org 171,867 domains were removed from zone files yesterday leaving the .top extension …

.UK domain registrants with a third-level domain (.co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .plc.uk or .ltd.uk) are reminded that they have less than three months left to secure the shorter second level (.uk) equivalent, before it is …

CENTR published its CENTRstats Global TLD Report quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). Global Market The global TLD market is estimated …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of February 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …

Radix announced today that it grossed $16.95M in total revenue in 2018, a 30% rise over its revenue in 2017. The registry’s net profit also grew by 45.6% in comparison to last year. Overall, Q4 …

I debated between a few titles for this post but decided that the worst one is best suited to wake some people up. The other title I thought was “there are zero (0) good .dev …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM: MMX) provided a company update today. Minds + Machines shared that 2019 has started well with domain registrations up 38% to 1.84m year-on-year with steady growth since the year-end …