Domain Extensions

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Some people really don’t have a clue as it comes to domain names. Not a clue! And they will probably need all the luck in the world to get the right domain for the right …

Uniregistry released over 3.5 million previously withheld domain names across 19 TLDs, including 1.2 million premium names. The 3,636,440 domains were released today at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT (17:00 UTC). Most of the Uniregistry …

.US and Neustar are hosting a Town Hall meeting this month for the United States’ country code Top-Level Domain, .US. The virtual .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall Meeting will take place on October 26, from …

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 …

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 …

.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 …

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 …

.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 …

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 …