Domain Extensions

With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), Google would like to give some insight into how these are handled in Google’s search. They have heard and seen questions and misconceptions about …

Domain Name Association (DNA) announced it is launching DNA University to support the domain name industry. One of the first initiatives of the DNA University will be to roll out a webinar series that will …

Rightside issued an official statement today explaining their general view on New TLDs and why they shut of the fictitious website at Bloomberg.Market per their standard operating procedures. Here is the statement:

Dot London was at the London Technology Week 2015 and it just published a video with some of the highlights of its presentation and the reactions. Watch the video here:

Joel Natividad of Ontondia.com put together a dotNYC Explorer based on information on .nyc registrants provided by DoITT, the city agency with oversight of the .nyc TLD. Take a look at Beta.nyc. (Unfortunately the site …

Minds + Machines today announced a strategic partnership with ALM Media, LLC, one of the world’s largest legal media companies, to collaborate on advertising and marketing content for the new top-level domain “.law” across ALM’s …

50 of London’s most-wanted premium internet domain names are to be auctioned off to give Londoners a unique chance to own sought after premium domains and raise up to £50,000 for charities across the capital. …

ARI Registry Services is doing a series of TLD applicant interviews. The latest interview features Richard Tindal, Co-Founder and COO, Donuts Inc., that talks about the .photography TLD and how to build a strategy for …

Elaine Pruis, Vice President, Operations at Donuts Inc, clarified why Donuts is delaying the release of 2-character domains until September and how the 2 character domains will be treated in regards to sunrise claims. Elaine …

Christopher Hofman Laursen and the European Domain Centre published a list of 50+ businesses that dumped their .com (or some other gTLD or a ccTLD) for a new top level domain. They hand picked 50+ cool …

Minds + Machines announced today that Carlsberg, the brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program. After extensive consultation with Minds + Machines, Carlsberg has secured over 150 .beer domains, in a portfolio that …

After I published my published my New gTLD purchases and announced that I had invested $50,000 in New gTLD domain names some people questioned my dedication to the New gTLDs. That was because my buying …

Minds + Machines Group Limited announced that registrations within .work have now passed 55,000 positioning it in the top 20 of new top-level domains launched under ICANN’s new gTLD programme. The company also reported the …

Starting Dot published the Q2 2015 Premium TLD 50, and they are beginning to see some interesting trends in this space. There’s stability at the top, with the 5 biggest TLDs by volume all showing …