Domain Extensions

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

.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, …