Domain Extensions

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sunrise for .cars, .car and .auto ended a few days back and a few of the biggest companies in the world bought domain names. The domains were not necessarily bought by car manufacturers (Open, Honda, …

Cars Registry, a joint venture between XYZ and Uniregistry, today announced the start of the Early Access Period (EAP) running January 12-20. GoDaddy is selling .cars, .car and .auto domains at GoDaddy.Cars for prices starting …

Minds + Machines Group Limited (LSE:MMX) announced its agreement to acquire a 99% interest in Boston TLD Management LLC (“BTM”), the owner of rights to the .boston geo-TLD, and the agreement of its subsidiary, Minds …

The European Domain Centre published today the “Expert Roundup 2016” blog post that includes my personal view on where New gTLDs are heading in 2016 The post includes opinions from a wide area of expertise …