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 …
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Afilias will continue providing back-end registry services to .ORG domains
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 …
Read More »8,049 .UK domains suspended because of criminal activity
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 …
Read More ».Blog domains had a bad landrush phase
.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 …
Read More »Rightside reports $4.4 million net loss for Q3 (Has 546,000 registered domains)
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 …
Read More »The .Blog registry is not releasing ANY 1, 2 and 3 character domain names!
.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 …
Read More »The .Blog registry registered the best .blog domains for itself!
Looking to buy the domain name fashion.blog, music.blog or news.blog? You are out of luck… The .blog domain name registry has registered for itself and its partners about 90 .blog domains. 27 of the domains correspond …
Read More ».Blog domain name Landrush has started
The .Blog registry (owned by WordPress) launched the Landrush Phase for purchasing .blog web addresses. This phase marks the first time non-trademark owners can apply for early access to a .blog domain name. That means anyone …
Read More »3.8 million .EU domains registered, average renewal rate over the past ten years is 80%
2016 marked ten years since EURid opened general registration of the .eu TLD on a first come – first served basis. In June of 2016, EURid welcomed a new member to the .eu family, that …
Read More »What would have happened if my sold New gTLD domain had a higher renewal price?
I sold a New gTLD domain after a long dry spell. We agreed on the price after the buyer got back to me after a month and made a new offer. He offered 3 times …
Read More »Donuts can reject DPML Plus applications of certain 3-character or common dictionary terms
On October 1, 2016, Donuts announced upcoming price changes to its legacy DPML service and launched DPML Plus, a new and enhanced service for blocking trademarked terms, available for a limited time. In the original …
Read More »Delegation of new gTLDs did NOT degrade the security and stability of the root DNS system
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.74 MB] a draft report regarding the Continuous Data-Driven Analysis of Root Server System Stability (CDAR). The study examines the technical impact of the …
Read More »Results from the premium .NYC domain name auction (RealEstate.nyc $21,300)
Auctions.nyc and the City of New York had their first auction of premium .NYC domains. The auction featuring 20 domain names ended today on Namejet and 19 out of 20 domains were sold for a …
Read More »VeriSign reports $288 million of revenue in Q3
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2016. Verisign ended the third quarter with 144.1 million .com and .net domain name registrations in the domain name base. The final …
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