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, …
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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 …
Read More »Rightside Acquires The .GAMES Domain Extension
Rightside, a new domain name extension registry, today announced it has secured the .GAMES domain extension. Rightside plans to launch .GAMES in Q3 2016 starting at a standard wholesale price of $12.00. Rightside believes .GAMES …
Read More »Verisign Signs Real Name Verification Contract For .COM Domains With CNNIC
CNNIC and Verisign signed on April 19 an agreement for the real name verification service of Verisign’s .COM and .NET top-level domains. Aiming to the healthy development of the Chinese domain name industry, CNNIC will provide …
Read More »Verisign Adds 2.65 Million Net New .COM & .NET Domains In Q1 2016
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today reported financial results and details about .com and .net registrations and renewals for the first quarter of 2016. Business Highlights: Verisign Registry Services added 2.65 million net new names during …
Read More »Hexonet Starts Offering Donuts & Rightside Backorders For Regular Priced Domains
Hexonet starts offering Donuts and Rightside backorders for dropping domain names on May 1, 2016. The backorder service will be catching about 400 New gTLDs in total. HEXONET will continue to add backordering for even …
Read More »Amazon Wants To Turn Its New Domain Extensions Into Closed Generic TLDs
Amazon attempts to make one, but ultimately all, of its new extensions restricted despite ICANN’s ban on closed generic TLDs. Amazon Registry Services, Inc., the Registry Operator of .MOI TLD, has filed to ICANN a …
Read More ».Tech Hits 100,000 Domain Name Registrations (Infographic)
.Tech, the New gTLD from Radix registry, reached 100,000 domain name registrations this morning. According to NameStat .tech is the 22nd new extension in terms of domain name registrations. Radix has several partners like GoDaddy, …
Read More ».Homes Registry: Domain Investors Are Not Invited
Dominion Registries, the .Homes domain name registry, has made it clear that domain name investors are not invited in their namespace. But at the same time the registry has reserved numerous premium domain names that …
Read More »New gTLD Report Shows A 30% Increase Of Domains In Alexa Top 1M (Plus .Seat, .BMW, .Movie)
The latest edition of the bi-monthly CSC® Digital Brand Services’ New gTLD Utilization Report shows both the number of .brands and generic TLDs in the Alexa Top 1M increasing by over 30% since the February …
Read More ».Homes Registry Opens Request for Proposal (RFP) Period For Premium Domain Names
Dominion Registries, the .homes registry, announced today that a special Request for Proposal (RFP) period has opened for a group of premium .Homes domain names. The domain names are being considered for release for registration …
Read More »auDA Will Soon Introduce First Level Domain Name Registrations In .AU
Soon Australians will be able to make first level domain name registrations in .au, for example, “MyName.au”. The .au domain extension is the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) restricted to use by individuals, organisations, …
Read More »Latest Report Counts 314 Million Registered Domain Names Worldwide
VeriSign, Inc. announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all …
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