Domain Extensions

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 …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that approximately 12 million domain names were added to the internet in the first quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 326.4 million …

Rightside announced some of the highlights of the first half of 2016 regarding premium domain name sales. They also announced “The Power of Two” campaign for September that will be the release of previously unavailable two-letter …

At the 2016 eShow Brasil conference in Sao Paolo Brazil, .CLUB CMO Jeff Sass gave this presentation on “How New Domain Names Are A Marketer’s Best Friend.” (Thanks to Andres Varona of AM Global for …

Nintendo, the owner of the newly released game Pokemon Go, bought the domain name Pokemon.Club. The domain name was bought from the .Club registry as the domain name was reserved by the registry due to …

The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” is out after being on both lists …

Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful consideration and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, has rejected the unsolicited proposal from Donuts Inc. to acquire Rightside’s …

Nominet, the .UK registry, released an annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) in 2015. A total of 728 complaints were made to Nominet in 2015, just two more …

Afnic, the .fr ccTLD registry, produced its 2015 annual report. Afnic operates both the .fr ccTLD and 13 New gTLDs. Afnic’s main achievements and commitments in 2015 Finalization of the opening of the registration of …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, and ChopChop.domains is releasing the last installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. Here are the previous 9 installments: the number 7 …

In February of this year Donuts announced its newly minted “trusted notifier” program with the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”). It was the first arrangement of its kind in the domain name industry made …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.88 MB] the findings from its Phase 2 Global Consumer Research Survey. The key findings are listed below. Conducted by Nielsen, the study measured …

The Undeveloped.com New gTLD auction is underway with just 7 days left so the Undeveloped team shared the most undervalued names that they currently have in auction. The auction runs from the 20th June to …