Domain Extensions

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2016. Rightside’s 39 gTLDs in general availability ended the quarter with approximately 523,000 registered domains, up over 70% from the …

Lease A City (www.LeaseA.City) is a new project (founded in 2016) that aims to offer city information to its online visitors through a network of .city domain names and directory websites. Lease A City owns some very …

The DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report’ (Q2, 2016) is now available for download.  The report covers the global status and registration trends in all Top Level Domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs) with additional focus on …

Rightside announced today that last month it sold two of its Premium domains, which ranked as two of the largest per domain revenue transactions in Rightside’s history. Sex.LIVE sold for $160,000 and Porn.LIVE went for $120,000. [websites are NSFW] …

Afilias announced today the acquisition of StartingDot, the Registry Operator for 3 new TLDs: .ARCHI, .BIO and .SKI. The acquisition agreement is part of Afilias’ ongoing program of acquiring new TLDs to add to its portfolio. …

Effective at 16:00 UTC on October 1, 2016, Donuts will adjust downward the standard wholesale price for new, non-premium registrations in .BUSINESS and .COMPANY. Donuts says that “This adjustment better aligns registration prices with emerging …

Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB Domains, gives a talk called “All In A Name: How New Meaningful Domain Extensions Can Drive More Business” at HostingCon 2016 in New Orleans. Watch the video here:

.Net domain name wholesale price goes up again on February 1st, 2017. That means you have a few months notice to renew your .net domain names for 1 to 10 years so you can save a …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) today announced the following information pertaining to the .web top-level domain (TLD): “The Company entered into an agreement with Nu Dot Co LLC wherein the Company provided funds for Nu Dot Co’s …

On 27 July 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program auction to resolve contention for .WEB and .WEBS. Auction serves as the method of last resort for …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2016. Business Highlights Verisign Registry Services added 0.78 million net new names during the second quarter, ending with 143.2 million .com and …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that the Group’s unaudited interim accounts for the six months ended 30 June 2016 will be published on 20 September 2016. During the first half of 2016 transformational …

ICANN announced the publication of the Draft Report of the Independent Review of the Trademark Clearinghouse. Specific considerations related to the matching criteria, Trademark Claims service and Sunrise period are assessed in the review, conducted by …

Starting with August 29, 2016 nic.at releases one and two character domains under the TLD .at. Until now the minimum length of a domain name under the top-level domain .at has been three characters. This …