It has been one year since the .BANK internet new domain name extension launched in May 2015, and the number of domain name registrations now stands at over 5,900. In this initial year, 45% of banks in …
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.VIP Sells 167,231 Domains Within 24 Hours Of Launch (infographic)
.VIP entered General Availability on the 17th of May breaking all New gTLD registration records for domain name registrations in the first 24 hours after launch. .VIP is a Minds + Machines (MMX) new extension. …
Read More »Minds + Machines: Dismissal Of Lawsuit & Antony Van Couvering No Longer Holds Any Options
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced today that Fred Krueger and all other plaintiffs have dismissed their lawsuit against the Company and all other defendants, as initially reported in the Company’s RNS dated 26 …
Read More ».VIP Breaks All New gTLD Domain Registration Records
.VIP broke several New gTLD domain registration records since its launch yesterday. It has been the fasted registered New Extension for the first 3 hours since the General Availability since the NEW gTLD program started …
Read More »Canon Launches Global Website Using Global.Canon Domain Name
Canon Inc. announced that the Company has gone live with a renewed global website employing a domain name that departs from the traditional location-specific “www.canon.com” to the new “global.canon” proprietary domain name. The launch marks …
Read More ».VIP Domain Names Launch Today
.VIP domain names launch today, 17 May 2016, at 16:00 UTC. The time for general availability is 11:00 EST and 24:00 for Beijing, China. .VIP is a Minds + Machines new domain extension and this is …
Read More »WordPress Expects 250,000 .Blog Domain Name Registrations In 2016
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, paid over 19 million dollars for the .blog registry and will offer the .blog domain extensions through its subsidiary, Knock Knock, WHOIS There (KKWT), starting later this year. The …
Read More »WordPress To Operate .Blog New Top Level Domain Extension, Launching In November 2016
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, announced that it secured the rights to oversee and operate the sale and registration of .blog domain names. WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg said in a blog post that Automattic is …
Read More »Nominet Makes Available A List Of All Registered .UK & .CO.UK Domains
Nominet is making the zone files for all of the domains they manage available to members for the first time. But that is not all, as the zone file will contain only active domain names. …
Read More »Trending Keywords In .COM & .NET Domain Names (Bot, Guru, Prince, Panama)
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of April 2016 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry.. “Trump” is out of the list after 2 …
Read More ».CLUB Domain Names Turn 2 Years Old (video)
It has been 2 years since .Club was launched. More than 720,000 .club have been sold so far to more than 132,000 unique registrants from 130 countries. According to the .club registry there are more …
Read More »The Beijing Company Building A “Great Wall of Domain Names” In China (video)
ChopChop Domains published a video interview with Zhiqiang ‘Sky’ Wei 魏志强, VP of EJEE Group Holdings, operator of domain.cn. EJEE Group Holdings offices are located in Beijing China. Domain.cn, known as the city of domains, …
Read More »Greek Seller Contacts Frank Schilling To Sell Him A .MOM Domain 21 Hours After General Availability
The .Mom domain extension launched yesterday by Uniregistry that is owned by Frank Schilling. In less than 24 hours after general availability a Greek registrant contacted no other than Frank Schilling to sell him a …
Read More »CentralNic To Delete Several SubDomains-Websites From 8 Domains Like .GB.COM or .NO.COM
CentralNic sent out a chilling email informing several of its clients that the domains they have bought, build into websites and have been renewing for years will be deleted in a year from now. CentralNic …
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