The .Blog registry announced that since beginning the Sunrise Phase on August 18th, more than 1,000 .blog domain sites have been activated. The number is higher than the expectations of the registry and is “signaling …
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New gTLDs have no apparent effect on legacy gTLD registrations (except for the regional new gTLDs)
ICANN has published findings of a study exploring whether the New gTLD Program has affected competition in the domain name marketplace. The study shows that the New gTLD Program has had no apparent effect on legacy gTLD registration …
Read More »Anyone can register a .DOCTOR domain name but…
.DOCTOR domain names open for general availability October 26. Donuts is the registry for the extension. Donuts has encountered some questions about the availability of this name—specifically, whether it will be open for registrations to …
Read More ».Law has sold and verified 6,000 domain names to law professionals
Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), the owner of the “.law” top-level domain, announced that since launching a year ago, .law has registered more than 6,000 first-choice and premium .law domain names. The registry also …
Read More »1000+ premium .LA names released, domain concierge service, available names lists
.LA registry announced that more than 1000 new premium names have been released including We.LA, Great.LA and Beer.LA. These dictionary words, business categories, first and last names and other internet brands, are available to shop …
Read More »Rightside talks about New gTLD domain renewals (and re-renewals)
Since the first New gTLDs started launching in early 2014 and since two Rightside-owned gTLDs, .dance and .democrat, went live in May of 2014, the question many domain-industry watchers were asking is how popular new …
Read More »Trending Keywords In .COM & .NET Domain Names (page and self driving cars)
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of September 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. The only common keyword in the .com and …
Read More »Connecting.nyc disappointed with the upcoming .NYC domain auctions
Connecting.nyc, is extremely disappointed with the New York City’s and Neustar’s decision to auction several premium .NYC domains starting with 20 domains later this month. Connecting.nyc Inc. is a NYS nonprofit education organization advancing the operation …
Read More ».NYC releases 3,800 premium domains costing between $250 and $5,000
.NYC domains are 2 years old and celebrate by releasing about 3,800 .nyc “premium domain names” today. Starting on Monday, October 10 at 3:00pm EDT, these .nyc premium domain names will be offered to the …
Read More »GoDaddy surpasses 1 million registered domains in the United Kingdom
GoDaddy today announced that more than 1 million .UK domain are registered with the registrar in the United Kingdom. .UK domains refer to the ccTLD domains of the United Kingdom: .co.uk, .uk, .org.uk and .me.uk. …
Read More »GoDaddy please stop the domain name bullying!
I went to GoDaddy to check the price of Sex.Shop. (.Shop launched getting more than 50,000 registrations.) I immediately saw that the price for Sex.shop was $139,999.99 per year but then I saw that many …
Read More »Sex.guru dropped and is available – Why?
The domain name sex.guru expired, was deleted and is now available to register. But why isn’t it taken yet? .Guru domains were a few of the first New gTLDs that launched in early 2014 by …
Read More ».CLUB will no longer recapture and reserve deleting domain names
Starting October 1, .CLUB will no longer recapture and reserve deleting domain names as the registry As you may know, in the past, as a registry .club has often recovered certain valuable deleting names and reserved …
Read More ».Global domains turn 2 years old (average premium domain sales price is $2,751)
.GLOBAL domains turned 2 this month. .Global was launched 9 September 2014. The number of premium domains sold is 253. The average sales price per premium domain sold is $ 2,751 USD. 8189 domain are …
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