.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 …
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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 …
Read More »WordPress recommends you get a .COM domain name
WordPress and Automattic, the parent company of WordPress and the new .blog extension, are recommending that you should get a .com domain name if both the .com and .blog domains are available. Automattic has setup …
Read More »Fashion.nyc that sold in a domain auction for $37,000 was never paid for
It seems that a few of the domains that were in the 3 .NYC auctions in the past year were not paid for. I got a tip that the highest selling domain name from the …
Read More »Internet grows to 331.9 million domain name registrations in Q2 of 2017
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 331.9 …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: crypto, bit, block chain, houston, harvey
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of August 2017 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. There are a few common keyword in the …
Read More ».Build registry (Plan Bee LLC) has been suspended in California (can’t conduct business)
Plan Bee LLC, the company operating the .build top-level domain, has been suspended in California. The Beverly Hills based company has been suspended by the California Secretary of State AND the Franchise Tax Board. The …
Read More ».CLUB domains headquarters hit by hurricane Irma
In the devastating wake of Hurricane Irma the Fort Lauderdale, Florida based headquarters of .CLUB Domains, LLC sustained extensive damage. The destructive wrath of Irma tore off a vast portion of the building’s roof destroying …
Read More ».vip, .club, .shop and .ltd domain name extensions get Beijing approval
.vip, .club, .shop and .ltd are the first 4 domain name extensions to receive approval by the Beijing Communications Administration. .VIP is an MMX extenstion, .Shop is managed by GMO Registry, Inc. and .ltd is …
Read More »Owner information will not show up on .io, .ac and .sh domain name whois
Owner information has stopped appearing on .io, .ac and .sh domain name whois and people have started complaining about this change. It all started in April 2017 when Afilias won the contract to run the …
Read More »Tucows to discontinue .au domain name registrations for all Chinese resellers
Tucows’s reseller platform OpenSRS will no longer be able to provide .au domain name registrations to any reseller that is based in China. This follows a formal direction Tucows was given by auDA, the registry …
Read More ».Miami produces 2 new promotional videos
.Miami has produced a couple of very interesting videos in order to promote this regional domain name extension. .Miami launched in October 2015 but its numbers are far from impressive. The New gTLD peaked at …
Read More »CentralNIC acquires Slovakia’s Top-Level Domain .SK for about €26 million but Slovaks are not happy
CentralNIC has agreed to acquire SK-NIC, A.S., manager of Slovakia’s Top-Level Domain (ccTLD), .sk but Slovaks are not too happy with this. The Board of CentralNic announced that it has agreed to acquire the business …
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