Domain Extensions

I just received today the funniest newsletter email from the .blog registry with the subject “.blog domains are not available!”. Someone made the best typo of the year in time for Black Friday! It is …

Cnobin, a Hong Kong based registrar, announced that it has stopped offering .TOP domain name registrations effective immediately. At first this seemed strange for a Hong Kong registrar as Chinese registrants hold almost 80% of …

The 1st and 2nd of the 3 .at short domain name auctions have ended with nearly 800 domains selling. The 1st .AT short domain auction closed last week with 6,000 bids originating from countries like …

.Blog domain names entered General Availability yesterday, November 21, at 15:00 UTC and a few hours later the total number of registered .blog domains was 16,430*. This number includes the domains registered by the registry …

.Blog domain names entered general availability today, November 21. I registered 15 Blog domain names today and I may buy some more but these are not exactly what you might think. I bought 15 KeywordBlog.com …

The .blog registry made a blog post today trying to explain what is going on with all the reserved domains and the .blog landrush. In short they explained that they did what they did simply …

The Huffington Post published a blog post titled “Companies Battle For Digital Marketing Landscape (Localization Is The New Frontier)” that details how New York City .nyc domains are used by increasingly many companies to stake …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), provided an update on New gTLD developments in China, US and Europe. On the operational front, the Company confirmed that 24 of MMX’s top-level domains have now been successfully …

Radix announced today that it recently acquired exclusive rights for the new domain extension, .FUN. The transfer was finalized last month. .FUN’s main competition will probably be Uniregistry’s .LOL extension. Radix now owns 9 strings …

Public Interest Registry – the non-profit operator of the .org, .ngo, and .ong domains as well as four Internationalized Domain Names (.орг, .संगठन, .机构 and .组织机 构) – today announced that it will enter into …

Nominet today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to October 2016. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain is …

.Blog domains completed landrush on Wednesday and the registry announced the results and they don’t look too good. The landrush resulted in 1000+ registered domains the 7 days of the landrush. Just 36 of these …

Rightside announced today financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016 reporting a net loss of $4.4 million for the 3rd quarter. Business Highlights Rightside has 40 gTLDs in its portfolio and ended …

.Blog domain names are currently in the Landrush phase but it seems that thousands of domains have been reserved by the registry including ALL 1, 2 and 3 character domain names. Per ICANN (Internet Corporation …