TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, is releasing the fifth installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. TLD Registry presented the world’s first, and still currently the world’s only Chinese …
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.CLUB Reappoints Allegravita For Their 2016 China Campaign
Allegravita announced that .Club ,one of their most successful domain name sector clients, has reappointed them for their China campaign in 2016. Since 2014, .CLUB Domains and Allegravita have worked closely to bring .CLUB’s brilliantly marketed and well-positioned domain names …
Read More »Minds + Machines Sells $1.52m Of Premium New gTLDs In Q4
Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX), provided the following unaudited trading update ahead of publication of the Group’s accounts for the 12 months ended 31 December 2015, which will be announced during the week commencing …
Read More »Donuts Gets 2 Millionth Domain Name Registration (400,000 Domains Have Dropped)
Donuts Inc. has processed its two millionth first-time new domain name registration. The name Schedule.HOLIDAY was registered this week. Other recent registrations include:
Read More ».Shop Sells For $41,501,000 To GMO Registry, Inc.
On 27 January 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN‘s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: .SHOP. This set was …
Read More »Minds + Machines Hires ZDNS & Allegravita LLC For China Expansion
Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) announced its expansion into the Chinese market with the appointment of the highly respected registry service company, ZDNS, as its local infrastructure partner. The Company has also appointed Allegravita LLC, a …
Read More ».CO Now Has 2 Million Registered Domain Names (Infographic)
Last week, the .CO registry announced that there are now more than 2 million registered .CO domain names. The .COmmunity has grown by over 7000% in just five short years. Check out the infographic below for …
Read More »Auction For .Shop Is Set For Tomorrow
An Auction will be facilitated by Power Auctions LLC on 27 January 2016 to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: SHOP. This set was previously identified as an indirect …
Read More »Donuts Launches .WINE & .VIN Domains (With 1,300 Sunrise Registrations)
Donuts Inc. today announced that the .WINE and .VIN gTLDs will be available for general registration tomorrow January 20. The announcement follows an active two month Sunrise period during which more than
Read More ».EU Registry Desperate For EUR 300 Domain Complaints?
The fee for a basic .eu Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) procedure will continue to be discounted, following an agreement between the .eu registry EURid and the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC), the institution appointed to rule …
Read More »Top 10 Trending Keywords in .COM & .NET Registrations in December (Clinic, Porn, Lice)
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of December 2015 were published by Verisign. “Fang” is the only common keyword in the 2 lists. Is December a big month …
Read More »Top 10 Domain Name Posts Of 2015
2015 was a great year for OnlineDomain.com and a lot of posts got a lot of attention. In 2015 there were 678 posts and 270,000 views from 197 countries. These are the top posts in 2015 by …
Read More »New gTLD Domain Name Expert Roundup 2016 (Infographic)
The European Domain Centre published an infographic based on the “Expert Roundup 2016” blog post. That post includes my personal view on where New gTLDs are heading in 2016. The post includes opinions from a …
Read More »PREMIUM TLD 50 Shows 7% Growth In Q4 2015
StartingDot’s Premium TLD 50 index for Q4 2015 shows strong growth for this segment of the new gTLD market. Premium TLDs are defined by StartingDot as “Latin character suffixes (no IDNs) that are not brand or …
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