Donuts Inc., the largest New gTLD registry, today publicly announced its interest in acquiring Rightside Group, Ltd.’s entire registry of new generic top-level domains (New gTLDs) and related assets for $70 million in an all-cash …
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No Action Will Be Taken Yet Against .EU Domain Names Registered By Residents In UK
EURid, the .eu and .ею domain name registry, issued a statement today regarding the United Kingdom referendum results and .eu domains owned by UK residents. On 23 June 2016 voters in the UK referendum expressed …
Read More »Undeveloped.com New gTLD Domain Name Auction (find .work, customer .care, u .fit)
Undeveloped.com is having a New gTLD domain name auction. This is the second auction for the Undeveloped.com platform after the premium .com and ccTLD auction that ended last week. The auction runs from the 20th June to …
Read More »CentralNic to Relaunch .CX ccTLD Rebranded As Customer Xperience
CentralNic will relaunch the TLD .CX on June 22 through its new Registry Gateway Service. .CX is the ccTLD for Christmas Island. The ccTLD is rebranded as the domain for good Customer Xperience. The TLD …
Read More »CentralNic Will Be The Backend For UKCI’s .ART New gTLD
CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC), announced that it has contracted with UK Creative Ideas Limited (“UKCI”), the rights holder for the new Top-Level Domain (“TLD”) .ART, to be its exclusive backend registry service provider. .ART will …
Read More ».STORE Makes $1+ Million Until Day 1 (t-shirts.store $25k, stars.store $10k)
Radix announced that their new gTLD .STORE made more than $1 million before close of general availability day 1, earlier this week. This figure includes revenue earned from premium names, sunrise and regural registration fees. …
Read More ».Club Just Released 12,000 Premium Domains
.Club just released approximately 12,000 registry reserved .CLUB premium domain names into the registrar channel, including some names that have never been offered by the registrar channel before. This is the second time .CLUB has …
Read More »Chinese Domaining: The Number Two (2)
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 8th installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. Here are the previous eight installments: the number 7 …
Read More »Trending Keywords In .COM & .NET Domain Names (net, research, Trump)
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of May 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” is back on both lists after one …
Read More »Theatre.London Launched To Support 210 Theatres In London
A new website theatre.london, launched by London & Partners, will help to shine a spotlight on, not only West End shows, but also the scores of other performances taking place every evening at one of …
Read More ».Club Having A Domain Name Auction On West.cn (f.club, 26.club, hd.club)
One of the top registrars in China, West.CN, is holding an exclusive .CLUB auction which is live now and ends on June 14th. Twenty domain names are included in the no reserve auction, including the …
Read More »Top 12 Reasons “Why Chinese TLDs Are Great For Brands & Businesses”
Chop Chop Domains published the top 12 reasons why fully-Chinese domain names are a powerful tool for brands and businesses. Here are some of the most interesting ones: Establishing a website or service with a …
Read More ».Club To Release More Premium Domains On June 16
On June 16, 2016 approximately 12,000 registry reserved .CLUB premium domain names will be released into the registrar channel, including some names that have never been offered by the registrar channel before. This is the …
Read More ».VIP Domain Registrations Up 49% From Friday To 404,892
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), reported a significant increase in domain name registrations in the .vip top-level domain. As of 1600hrs UTC on 6 June 2016, .vip domain registrations taken by the Company had …
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