Domain Extensions

I don’t like 2 word new gtld domains because they lack a certain symmetry and also because for the simple reason that they are longer that what they should be! This left.right keyword symmetry is …

After Google announced that it is creating a new holding company, called Alphabet and the new website is using the domain name abc.xyz I ran a poll asking readers what they thought the domain abc.xyz …

Minds + Machines got $3.5 Million for withdrawing its applications for .Data & .Art and they report that there is strong interest for their multiple super-premium names in the past couple of months. Minds + Machines …

.Online ended its 1st day in general availability with 35,172 domain name registrations in its zone files according to NameStat. .Online gained 33,473 domain names in the past 24 hours. (Please keep in mind that the …

Radix Registry, the .Online registry, announced on Twitter that .Online had 26,000 domain name registrations in the first 15 minutes of General Availability (GA). The Early Access for .online ended on 26th August, 15:59 and general …

Constantine Roussos, founder of DotMusic Limited that is one of eight .music applicants, send out a letter to ICANN and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The letter intents to support the .music community application-based application …

TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, is releasing the third installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. TLD Registry presented the world’s first, …

Quora asked a question targeting current and former Google employees. What do Google employees think of the creation of Alphabet Inc? So far there have been 14 responses. Here are a few of the most …

A new website for the Uniregistry registry was launched today at uniregistry.link. Frank Schilling announced the launch on Twitter. He said that the new website has the “same heart, passion and ambition”. He added: “We …

RetailMeNot, a US coupon company, paid $4.3 million to buy New gTLD domain names from a new domain name registry, according to a SEC filling. (Thanks to George Kirikos of Leap.com for the tip.) The …

Day 5 of EAP started yesterday for .Online and in the first 45 minutes there were 532 domain name registrations. Registrants pay about $150 more on EAP day 5 on top of the registration price. …

Colin CampbelI, founder of .CLUB, has officially challenged Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ, to a debate at THE Domain Conference that takes place this September in Florida. Colin is debating that free or nearly free …

ConnectingNYC.org wrote an article about who should operate the Search.nyc domain name. At the time the domain name Search.nyc is reserved by the registry but it is not registered and not resolving. It should at …

Dot London published an article about local branding. The article written by Alexandra Gavril and called “The importance of your domain in local branding” does not only apply to .London but to other regions and …