Radix announced that its flagship TLD, .ONLINE, has surpassed 1 million domains under management. .ONLINE is one among the few nTLDs that have crossed the 1 million mark, which now makes it the 5th largest …
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.CLUB registry rakes in $500,000 in premium domain sales
.Club sold 2,072 premium names through the registrar channel and the Tiered Premium program during the first six months of 2018, for a total of $379,972.93. Sales of .CLUB domains from Names.club for the six …
Read More »Radix shares latest premium New gTLD domain name sales
Radix announced that it has made one-time premium name sales of more than $137K since August 2018. These one-time sales were made through domain marketplace SEDO and via top registrar partners. Names that fetched maximum …
Read More ».Com and .net domains increase by 1.99 million in Q3 – Renewal rate was 75% in Q2
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the third quarter of 2018. Verisign ended the third quarter with 151.7 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base, a 4.0 percent …
Read More »Donuts launches Travel.Domains
Donuts Inc. announced the launch of the www.travel.domains website, with features to enable travel organizations, enthusiasts and industry professionals to browse, discover and purchase travel domains from its TLD portfolio. Donuts acquired the .TRAVEL domain …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: asset, marijuana, organic, removal, florence
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of September 2018 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More ».Page domains (by Google) are now available to register
.Page domain names entered General Availability yesterday. Google is the owner of this new extension. The .page launch was not even remotely close to how successful the .app launch was. .App is another Google new …
Read More »Donuts appoints ICANN’s Akram J. Atallah as CEO
Donuts Inc. announced that Akram J. Atallah will assume the role of chief executive officer, effective November 12, 2018. Current CEO Bruce Jaffe is stepping down and will continue to act as a senior advisor …
Read More »STOP THE PRICE INCREASE OF .COM DOMAIN NAMES!
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) has created a petition on Change.org to stop Verisign, the .com registry, from raising .COM pricing. Sometime before November 30, 2018, the price of .COM domains may go up when …
Read More »Donuts increases the cost of the Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) service
Donuts is increasing the cost of its Domains Protected Marks List (DPML) service. DPML is brand protection service designed for trademark owners. DPML is a service that allows trademark owners to protect their marks and …
Read More ».HOMES will be launching as an unrestricted TLD
Dominion Registries, the registry of the new extension .HOMES, will be removing the current restrictive Nexus eligibility requirements. Anyone will be able to register or acquire available General Availability (GA) or premium names starting 14 …
Read More »The new auDA constitution was approved
The new Constitution of auDA, Australia’s .au domain name administrator and regulator, was approved by members at the Extraordinary General Meeting. Members voted to approve the new constitution which will see a new governance model …
Read More »The .com/.net uptime is almost 20 years! (video)
Verisign made an interesting video on how the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure works. It is mostly directed to a novice level but it is quite interesting to watch. It is meant to be a …
Read More ».CHARITY domains launched yesterday and there are 839 registered today
.CHARITY domains, a Donuts Inc. new extension, entered general availability yesterday. According to Namestat.org there are 839 .charity domains registered today. There were 307 before general availability started including some registry domains, sunrise domains and …
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