CentralNic has agreed with Germany’s KSregistry GmbH for CentralNic’s wholesale division to provide its services for 14 Top-Level Domain extensions currently managed by Open Registry, which KSregistry acquired from Group NCC in 2017. Under the …
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.NYC announces the 5 winners of the Best of Boroughs contest (plus some .nyc stats)
The City of New York, on behalf of .nyc, crowned the winners of the first-ever Best of Boroughs contest. The Best of the Boroughs 5 website winners are: Best of Bronx – NewDayChurch.nyc is committed …
Read More »DigitalTown acquires JustLegal.com, hires Frank Robles, Braden Pollock joins as an investor/advisor
DigitalTown, Inc. and Congo, Ltd., have entered into an agreement for DigitalTown to acquire technology, expertise, and other assets of Congo. Congo’s flagship product is JustLegal.com, an online service for legal service provider discovery. “The …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: Irma, disaster, base, drain, jerseys
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of September 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. “Drain” is the only one common keyword in …
Read More »Less than 1,500 .Boston domains were registered on general availability
Less than 1,500 .Boston domain names were registered on general availability day 1, October 10 2017. According to Namestat there are now 1,619 registered .Boston domain names. The total includes 1,429 registrations from general availability …
Read More ».CLUB to release 380 domains tomorrow (BB.club, HR.club, etc.)
.CLUB will be releasing 380 domains tomorrow, October 11, at 1500 UTC (11:00 EST), through the registrar channel. The domain names are predominantly LL and NN names such 12.club, 16.club, AB.club, BB.club, CD.club, DV.club, ET.club, HR.club …
Read More ».US Town Hall – Key points and how Neustar totally ignored my question
Neustar held the .US domain names town hall last week. They mostly talked about how they do all these “great” marketing efforts they do and people on forums and blogs complained about that. But a …
Read More »Neustar has destroyed the .BIZ and .US domain name whois service
Neustar, Inc. has decided to destroy whois for .biz and .us domain names without even an announcement. That is probably because what they did is against ICANN rules. Domain name whois at port 43 is …
Read More »My thoughts on the Donuts New gTLDs and their stated 71% average renewal rate
Donuts published a health check on its TLDs and this time it includes all 40 of the newly acquired Rightside extensions. “Taking a glance at year-to-date numbers (through August 2017), the indicators are all positive. …
Read More »Join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the future of the .US extension
Neustar, the .US registry, is hosting a live town hall forum on Wednesday to discuss the United States’ country code Top-Level Domain, .US. Anyone can join the .US town hall meeting and help shape the …
Read More »Funniest domain name story of the month! wtf@wtf.wtf (???)
This is one of the funniest stories I have heard in the past few months! Imagine this: You are having issues with your email and then out of anger you try to send an email …
Read More »Was the $41.5 million price tag for .Shop domains worth it?
.Shop domain names turn one year old and as .shop celebrates its first anniversary, we take a look if the $41.5 million price tag paid by the registry was really worth it. It seems that …
Read More »Websites still don’t recognize all New gTLD email addresses
Today, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) released two reports aimed at measuring the state of popular browsers and websites and their ability to handle all domain names – including new, longer, or non-Latin top-level …
Read More »Google starts using HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for all its 45 TLDs
Google announced that they want the internet more secure and because of that they have added another tool in their toolbox, the HTTPS Strict Transport Security (HSTS) preload list. The HSTS preload list is built …
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