Domain Extensions

Afnic has been reappointed as the registry of .fr. The precise terms and conditions for implementing Afnic’s proposals for the management and development of .fr are currently being drafted as part of a new agreement …

.FR, the French top level domain operated by Afnic celebrates its 35th anniversary and continues its growth, which has allowed it to increase by 7% in 2020. The result of 35 years of technical excellence, …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that the second quarter of 2021 closed with 367.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared …

Radix reported its bi-annual premium report for the first half of 2021. This report gives a full overview of the premium domain sales across the Radix nTLD portfolio from 1st January 2020 till 30th June …

ICA hosted a panel of new gTLD experts who shared their expertise and predictions for the next round of the new gTLD application process in a webinar earlier this week. “Are you curious about applying …

This is a great report to get keyword and domain ideas for you future .com and other gTLD/ccTLD domain name investments. You can also use this report to better evaluate you current portfolio. Top 20 …

.Club announced today that they are officially owned by GoDaddy: “We are very pleased to say .CLUB is now officially part of GoDaddy Registry. In April, we announced GoDaddy Registry would acquire .CLUB, and the …

Nominet announced the appointment of Andy Green CBE as Chair of its Board of Directors, and Eva Lindqvist as Non-Executive Director. An experienced director, Andy is a National Infrastructure Commissioner and Chair of WaterAid UK …

Further to the announcement dated 8 April 2021, Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced that it has received consent from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) to transfer four top-level domains …

This quarter, the Spamhaus researchers have observed a 12% reduction in newly observed botnet command and controllers (C&Cs), which is good news. However, it’s not good news for everyone; more than one industry-leading provider is …

The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q1/2021 has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market. …

For several years now, EURid (the .EU registry) has been running two yearly categorisation exercises regarding the use of .eu. Throughout April, they deployed the first exercise of 2021 to understand possible new patterns within …

EURid, the .eu registry, published its 2020 annual report that shows a 2.2% yearly growth. The bi-yearly registrar satisfaction survey showed 97% satisfaction rate among EURid registrars. Here is the complete 2020 EURid/.EU report:

Overview of global trends and an analysis of the mechanisms at work during the health crisis. The global domain name market accounted for approximately 349 million domain names at the end of December 2020, up 1.3% compared …