XYZ Registry acquired 10 New gTLD domain extensions from Frank Schilling: .Game .Guitars .Audio .Christmas .Diet .Flowers .Hosting .Pics .Mom .LOL Following their .Tickets acquisition last year, this makes 21 TLDs that XYZ has acquired …
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.fr domains grow 6% in 2021
Today Afnic, the .fr registry, published the 2021 edition of the .fr review which details the activity of the French TLD over 2021 and analysis its market.Afnic found that the .fr TLD has maintained its …
Read More »Nominet donates £200k for Ukraine, suspends registrars in Russia
Nominet announced that it is has donated £200k to the DEC Ukraine humanitarian appeal now underway. Nominet has also stopped accepting registrations from registrars in Russia as it is suspending the relevant tags. This is …
Read More »You will soon be able to directly register .au domains
Australia’s newest namespace, .au direct, will launch on 24 March 2022. auDA and the Australian domain name industry are working together closely to prepare for its introduction. Registrants of existing com.au, net.au, org.au, asn.au, id.au, …
Read More »The CENTR Board suspends Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ’s membership
The CENTR Board is following Russian military actions in Ukraine with concern and strongly condemns the violation of international law and Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Ukraine’s national TLD registry is a member of CENTR and CENTR …
Read More ».ME premium domain name report 2021
The .ME registry released its premium domain report for 2021. The registry said that demand for .ME premium names grew throughout 2021 which is one more indicator of the necessity of taking a business online …
Read More »Domain name trend report: January 2022
This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for your future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD/NewgTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current …
Read More »Spamhaus: Most abused top-level domains, Q4 2021
Spamhaus published the latest report for the most abused top-level domains in botnets from Q4 2021: A new entry at #4 We don’t often see new TLD entries within the top five of this Botnet …
Read More »Web Hosting Canada launches .CA domain backordering
Web Hosting Canada has announced the official launch of its .CA domain name backordering platform. Canadians can use the new tool to register .CA domain names the second they expire and before they become available to …
Read More »Domain name trend report: December 2021
This is a great report provided by Donuts to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD/NewgTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current …
Read More ».TV domains: The government of Tuvalu selected GoDaddy registry
The Government of Tuvalu selected GoDaddy Registry as the new registry service provider for the .TV country code Top-Level domain replacing Verisign. The announcement follows a competitive render process conducted by the ministry of Finance …
Read More ».EU brexit-related domains to be released
All Brexit-related domain names, which were moved to the “WITHDRAWN” status on 1 July 2021, will be revoked and released on Monday, 3 January 2022. About 48,000 domain names will become available for general registration …
Read More »364.6 million domain registrations in Q3 2021
The third quarter of 2021 closed with 364.6 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, a decrease of 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the second quarter of 2021. Domain name …
Read More »Record low .UK domains suspended by law enforcement
Nominet, the .UK registry, has today published its update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to 31 October 2021. Nominet suspends domains following notification from the police or other law enforcement agencies that the domain …
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